Posts on ‘December 11th, 2008’

Iain Aitch: ITV is dropping that class-ridden irrelevance, the Oxbridge Boat Race. Can you think of any improvements that would save it?

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The UK lecturers’ union has abandoned attempts to boycott Israeli universities after years of international controversy, opponents of the policy said today.
In the face of legal threats, the leadership of the University and College Union has quietly dropped plans to implement a conference motion that instructed members to “consider the moral and political implications [...]

Rosa Freedman: Guidelines on monitoring foreign students are unfair, degrading and will undermine the quality of university life

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One in every five new teachers has been unable to find a job in Scotland’s classrooms, the latest figures suggest.
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The number of school leavers in Scotland who have gone straight into work has fallen, official figures show.
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Official figures show five out of six poor white boys did not meet the government’s GCSE benchmark this year.
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Parents of children with special needs feel they have to battle with the system to get what their children need, an inquiry found.
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White working class boys fell further behind their classmates in GCSE results this year, suggesting government efforts to close the social gap in exam results are stalling.
Figures released today show that white boys lagged further behind the national average in this summer’s exams than a year ago. Just 16% of white boys on free [...]

A fraudulent businessman who conned students and the government out of £16m was jailed today for seven years.
Michael Smallman, 45, of Leeming Lane, Northallerton, North Yorkshire, was the owner of the biggest learning provider in the UK - Middlesbrough’s National Distance Learning College (NDLC).
He lured tens of thousands of students to enrol on courses [...]

The main defendant in a £16m bogus college scam is jailed for seven years for conning thousands of students.
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