Posts on ‘December 5th, 2008’

Mike Baker looks at what needs to be done to restore trust in the exam system.
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The way we control and interact with computers is set to change rapidly in the next five years, according to a leading computer scientist who will give this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.
Prof Chris Bishop, who is chief research scientist at Microsoft Research in Cambridge and professor of computer science at the University of Edinburgh, [...]

Stephen Beer: It’s a good start – but the Runnymede Trust needs more evidence to back up its prescription for faith schools

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With jobs vanishing daily, the economic crisis looks likely to scupper government attempts to give every teenager who wants one the legal right to an apprenticeship, MPs predict.
Such a right cannot be established without seriously lowering the quality of these training programmes, according to the Commons children, schools and families committee.
It praises ministers for trying [...]

As we prepare to compile next year’s Guardian tables, we again invite universities and colleges to check that we are on the right track when it comes to matching subjects with cost centres.
For the second year running, a special website is being used to facilitate the process.
Default mappings of Guardian subject groups with JACS [...]

What do the words Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian mean to you? They are the periodic divisions of the Palaeozoic era, and although these terms are in standard use in every country in the world, four of them are based on direct observations in Britain and a fifth was named by Sir Roderick [...]

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Universities in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland could be threatened as fee-charging institutions in England grow ever larger, a report warned today.
The study, published today by the vice-chancellors’ group, Universities UK, warned of the possible impact of devolution on diverging higher education policies within the UK.
Although higher education is growing in all four parts of [...]

Over the past few months, a series of beauty contests has been held in London. So far, so sexist. But what distinguishes this particular competition is that all the women taking part are students at some of London’s best universities. Last week, for instance, Lile He, a politics and economics student, was named Miss School [...]

Universities in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are losing ground to those in England, a report says.
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