The Cambridge Pre-U exam, which plans to prepare students for university, gets a high Ucas tariff.
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Posts on ‘December 18th, 2008’
New Pre-U worth more than A-level
Anthea Lipsett on the results of the RAE
While the world pillories economists for failing to predict the full extent of the international financial crisis, British academic economists apparently have every confidence in their intellectual abilities. In the latest research assessment exercise (RAE) evaluating the output of UK universities, published today, economists received the largest proportion of top-rated “world-leading” scores for their research [...]
Teachers could face sanctions for weekend drunkenness
Teachers who get drunk and behave badly at weekends could face disciplinary action.
A new code of conduct , published in draft form yesterday, says teachers could face sanctions if they damage “public trust and confidence” in their profession.
Keith Bartley, chief executive of the General Teaching Council for England (GTC), the profession’s watchdog, said teachers needed [...]
Many UK researchers ‘world class’
The huge Research Assessment Exercise is finally over but data doubts undermine the results.
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Nursing research takes its place on world stage
Nursing, for many years medicine’s poor relation, has come of age in the 2008 research assessment exercise (RAE). Academics in the field can justifiably claim to be world-leading in terms of research.
Nursing and midwifery was among the subjects with the most highly rated research in the results published today.
Half of the University of Manchester [...]
Appeals soar after Sats fiasco
Appeals against the marking of this year’s Sats papers have reached record levels, the latest figures show.
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Ministers meet agony aunts to discuss family breakdown
The government will today announce new funding for children caught in the middle of family breakdown when ministers meet agony aunts at a relationship summit.
Ed Balls, the children’s secretary, and Beverley Hughes, the children’s minister, will meet the group of 17 agony aunts, led by the Sun’s Deidre Sanders, to establish what extra help the [...]
Barack Obama’s student years
Photographs of Barack Obama as college freshman included in series of 26 never before seen images of US president-elect in Time magazine’s 2008 Person of the Year issue
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11-plus exams tuition ‘routine’
Many children who pass the 11-plus exam have had extensive after-school help, BBC research suggests.
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