Posts on ‘February 4th, 2010’

University of East Anglia scientist Paul Dennis denies leaking material, but links to climate change sceptics in US drew him to attention of the investigators
A scientist at the University of East Anglia has been questioned by detectives ­investigating how controversial emails were leaked from the campus’s climate research unit.
Norfolk police have interviewed and taken a [...]

Flagship schools want the government to be less prescriptive about the qualifications they can offer

Labour’s flagship academies demanded today to be allowed to teach elite international GCSEs banned in state schools by the government.
The O-level-style IGCSEs are favoured by many independent schools, which believe they are tougher and more rigorous than traditional GCSEs and more [...]

Political scientist and LSE professor

Gordon Smith, who has died aged 82, was professor emeritus of government at the London School of Economics (LSE) and a leading teacher and scholar of his generation of political scientists. He was a well-respected voice on comparative European politics, party systems and German politics, although his scholarship appreciated the history [...]

A minister tells the BBC the government has identified universities at risk of being targeted by Islamic extremists.
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Almost 12,500 disabled students in England are still waiting for grants to pay for specialist equipment, official figures show.
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Cheating in GCSE and A-levels by pupils, teachers and even school exam centres rose markedly last year, with ever more sophisticated electronic gadgets being smuggled into exam halls.

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Last week the National Union of Teachers and the National Association of Head Teachers started to ballot their members on a planned boycott of this year’s national English and Maths Key Stage 2 tests for 11-year-olds. At the same time, the National Equality Panel laid bare the extent of economic and educational inequality that still [...]

The exam season has nearly ended. The crowds in the library are thinning and there are fewer groups of smokers outside exam halls. For me, though, the exam season has been a breeze – mainly because I haven’t had any.

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Easter break has always been an ideal time to get a head-start on exam revision, but now the pressure is really on. Good GCSE and A-level grades are more important than ever, according to rhe Conference of Independent Further Education (CIFE), and university admission requirements are getting tougher every year.

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