Education News
Inside Education News
University admissions overhaul as predictions fail to make grade
Monday, 13 June 2011
A radical overhaul of university admissions is on the cards in the wake of evidence showing more than half the predictions of A-level grade passes are wrong.
Lloyds' new scholarships push bank's UK efforts
Monday, 13 June 2011
Lloyds Banking Group is launching an undergraduate scholarship programme worth more than £12,000 in awards and paid work for students from lower-income families.
Soaring school meal prices threaten to wreck 'Jamie effect'
Sunday, 12 June 2011
Brian Brady and Jane Merrick: Efforts to introduce healthy eating by TV chef could be undone as costs jump 10 per cent.
Three new blunders discovered in school exam papers fiasco
Friday, 10 June 2011
Richard Garner: Six mistakes have now emerged, mostly in AS-level questions which proved impossible to answer.
Go-ahead given for eight new free schools
Friday, 10 June 2011
Only eight new free schools are certain to open their doors at the start of the next academic year in September, it has been revealed.
You have three hours for this exam (but part of it is impossible)
Thursday, 9 June 2011
Richard Garner: Every GCSE, A-level and AS-level exam paper is to be rigorously checked after it emerged that in the past week, all of the big three exam boards have made students sit tests containing questions that were impossible to answer.
Ofsted hits out at weak vocational courses
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Students are being awarded top grades on weak vocational courses that leave them with little knowledge of business, inspectors warned today.
Dutch university sees tenfold rise in UK applicants
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Richard Garner: The number of British teenagers applying to one of Europe's leading universities has risen dramatically this year.
Protesters let off smoke bomb at Grayling debate
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
A debate hosted by Professor A C Grayling ended in chaos last night as protesters opposed to his plans to set up a private university set off a smoke bomb.
Warning over pupils at risk of violent extremism
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
An alert has been sounded over the past three years that more than 1,100 schoolchildren and young adults are at risk of being drawn into violent extremism.
Oxford passes vote of no confidence in Willetts
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Dons at Oxford University have delivered a decisive "no confidence" vote in the Universities minister, David Willetts. There were cheers last night when the vote was announced in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre – the first time a "no confidence" motion had ever been issued in a government minister by the university's Senate. It was carried by the massive margin of 283 votes to five.
Academics vote against David Willetts
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Academics at Oxford University today passed a vote of no confidence in Universities Minister David Willetts.
Warning over funding gap for English universities
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Report says 'substantial funding gap' may lead to cuts in higher education.
Students faced with 'impossible' exam question
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Sixth-formers have been left struggling with a second "impossible" question in this year's exams. Students sitting an AS-level business paper were faced with a question that did not include the information needed to give an answer.
Universities criticised for extremism 'complacency'
Monday, 6 June 2011
The remarks come ahead of the publication of the Government's revised 'Prevent' strategy.
|
|
Most popular
Read
1 Cuts are forcing students to quit school earlier
2 10 weird and wonderful university courses
3 Sex arrest of female girls school teacher
4 Only 6 per cent learn facts of life from their parents
5 Why single-sex schools are bad for your health (if you're a boy)
6 Teenagers beguiled by false dreams of instant fame on reality TV
7 A* grades not enough to get into Cambridge
9 Wouldn't it be luverly if business learnt from school the lessons
10 Secondary School League Tables: The Top 50 Grammar Schools at A-level*
11 Graduates: Graduate fairs: when and where
12 Rugby Union: Shaw becomes latest to pull out
Commented
Professional Training Courses
Columnist Comments
• Steve Richards: If the Health Secretary won't be accountable, then who will?
The Coalition is coming unstuck through an idea.
• Adrian Hamilton: Not so much a murder plot as a screenplay
This is not how Tehran operates. On the whole it avoids direct confrontation.
• Simon Carr: Cannon Ball Ed has a new weapon: his voice
Ed Balls has developed a new voice – and what a voice. They could use it as an acoustic cannon to repel pirates.
|
|
Partners
-
Compare hundreds of deals on top finance offers
-
Browse profiles for free and find like minded singles
-
Find and compare 1000’s of business & professional Training Courses
-
Holidays for the discerning traveller from the Independent Holiday directory
Register for free to find your perfect partner with Independent Singles