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Posts on ‘December 24th, 2008’

Promise over learning allowances

The Learning and Skills Council says Educational Maintenance Allowance payments are now being processed efficiently.
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Reading Aloud with Michael Rosen: Christmas messages

The children’s laureate visits a school in Birmingham to hear teenagers’ alternative Christmas messages

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Peter Kingston on the Monteverdi Choir’s apprenticeship scheme

Peter Kingston meets the world-renowned Monteverdi Choir to find out about their recently launched apprentice scheme

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2008: the university year in round-up

This was the year when degree standards were questioned and financial gloom descended on universities, lightened only by spectacular success in the long-awaited results of the research assessment exercise.
The universities secretary, John Denham, still smarting from the furore sparked by his decision to cut £100m funding for students taking a second bachelor’s degree (”equivalent or [...]