Posts on ‘January 28th, 2009’

An academy which opened five months ago has been put into special measures by schools inspectors.
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Funding for research in university science departments and medical schools is being safeguarded at the expense of arts, humanities and social sciences, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) announced today.[wed]
Outlining spending plans for 2009-10 to vice-chancellors, the council said research funding would be as selective as in previous years. Overall, universities will share [...]

The British degree classification system is out of date, vice-chancellors admitted today, calling for more complete records of students’ skills and achievements.
In evidence to the Commons universities select committee, university heads also conceded that not all degrees were of equal value, but defended standards overall.
Doubt over degree standards peaked last summer when Buckingham University’s Professor [...]

The skills secretary, John Denham, has been challenged by Conservatives to explain why it has taken three months to send in a troubleshooter to investigate the stalled college building programme.
The first group of colleges to learn that their construction plans were to be delayed were told in October, the same month that the chancellor Alistair [...]

University vice-chancellors acknowledged today that the degree classification system is out of date.

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There are less extreme ways to spark teenagers’ interest in science but the setting alight of Judith Hackitt proved a hit with bored-looking pupils in a hot science lab in a southeast London school yesterday.
The year 11 audience at Bacon’s college in Rotherhithe looked on in amazement as Hackitt, the chair of the Health and [...]