Posts on ‘February 3rd, 2010’

Hundreds of state secondary schools are failing to enter a single pupil for A-level physics, MPs were told today.

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More parents are being fined for taking their children away on holiday during term time without permission, figures reveal.
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A primary school teacher is sacked over the bullying of a colleague who later died from the effects of bulimia.
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Cheating in GCSE and A-level exams increased last year, with teenagers caught almost 4,500 times, official figures showed today.

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The number of pupils cheating in GCSEs and A-levels has shot up, with many smuggling their mobile phone into the exam hall
A leap in the number of pupils trying to cheat in their GCSEs and A-levels by smuggling mobile phones and MP3 players into exams saw penalties issued for malpractice rise by 6% in one [...]

Only 11.1% of Oxford and 10.5% of Cambridge students are from black or minority ethnic backgrounds
Just over one in 10 students at Oxford and Cambridge are black or from an ethnic minority, compared with almost one in six at other universities, new figures reveal.
Research by the Race for Opportunity campaign, part of outreach charity Business [...]

More than 4,400 people cheated in last year’s GCSEs and A-levels in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, says watchdog Ofqual.
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Ethnic minority groups are better represented in UK’s universities than in the general population, research finds.
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