Posts on ‘December 2nd, 2008’

Up to 130,000 students could lose out in next year’s grants shake-up, according to Conservative party claims.
The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (Dius) was forced to admit in October it had underestimated the number of students who would qualify for maintenance grants.
As a result, the universities secretary, John Denham, announced cuts to the thresholds [...]

Snow forces the closure of about 200 schools across north-west England.
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Left-handed pupils do less well in tests than their right-handed peers, a study from Bristol University suggests.
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Bookies cut odds on white Christmas as wintry weather sets in

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The government has defended its flagship programme to improve children’s social skills, despite a claim by researchers that it has had little impact on pupil behaviour in primary schools.
Researchers at the University of Manchester said parents and teachers have seen little or no effect on the key social skills targeted by the Social and Emotional [...]

Julian Astle: The Lib Dems want to scrap higher education tuition fees, saying it will encourage poorer students to study. They are wrong

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The Liberal Democrats should drop their “regressive and ineffective” opposition to tuition fees because the policy has no bearing on whether poor students go to university, a thinktank has suggested.
The Lib Dems are the only party promising to abolish fees in the hope that it would draw more students from low-income households into higher education.
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Changes to means-tested university grants mean far more students than thought are likely to be affected.
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A flagship primary school programme targeting pupil behaviour and social skills has little impact, a report says.
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The school leaving age is about to be raised to 18. But does dropping out of school early lead to a life of manual work and penury? It didn’t for this lot …

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