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Sam Dix: Exams: Time for a change

2013-05-19T13:48:22Z

Exams are about as useful as placing a number of objects on a table, closing your eyes and getting a friend to move them a bit and then trying to guess what has changed. In what profession are you going to be required to remember bits of information which are then not available to you and then required to repeat it all in a timescale of a few hours?

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Melanie Kendry: What's the Best Book to Revise AQA GCSE Language Exam Higher? Advice Straight from a Senior Examiner

2013-05-19T16:44:42Z

The AQA GCSE has changed, and now, so has the textbook. Brand new for this year, 2013 students have the competitive edge with this brilliant book, full of worked examples, and tips straight from senior examiners on how to raise your grade in the Language Exam.

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Planet Ivy: The Harsh Reality of Life as a Graduate

2013-05-20T19:00:00Z

The fact is that as a graduate, you realise that on leaving university you are confronted with a ladder infinitely longer, more complex and scarier than the one you had to climb in education. This means that even more optimism and drive is required to tackle it.

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Dr Craig Hudson: A Healthy Sleep Pattern - An Important Stress-Busting Element This Exam Season

2013-05-20T07:49:16Z

The pressure of revision and impending tests can not only affect their waking moments but impact on sleep too. Lack of sleep can then have a detrimental effect on the brain, which can lead to lack of concentration when revising and in the exam hall - and on goes the cycle!

Read more: Exam Stress, Trouble Sleeping, Sleeping Well, Sleep Advice, Sleep, Student Life, A-Levels, Modern Parenting, Gcses, Exams, UK Universities & Education News

Tim Curtis: Michael Gove Got a G in GCSE history!

2013-05-17T10:32:55Z

Michael Gove seems to think that the GCSE is too easy, and that we should wind back to the good ol' days of O Levels, and the CSEs, remember? But lets have a proper look at what the GCSE does, in comparison to O Level/CSE.

Read more: UK Education, Education, Gcse, Michael Gove, UK Students, UK Schools, School, Students, Gcses, Exams, UK Politics News

Jane Scott Paul: Adult Learning Not a Priority but Why Not?

2013-05-16T09:57:10Z

The statistic seems to have gone unnoticed. Is it that universities and colleges are not concerned about catering to the needs of those wanting to study part-time who are mainly adult learners? Or is it that the hike in tuition fees means that for many adult learners education is simply out of reach?

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Mandy Townsend: Studying with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)

2013-05-15T13:53:50Z

I have to confess that I haven't completely mastered the art of hiding my Attention Deficit as I constantly fidget and am disruptive during long lectures but I do know how I cope with getting my work done to a similar standard as my classmates.

Read more: Studying, Attention Deficit Disorder, Add, Students, Studying Tips, Study, Student Life, Tuition Fees, Gcses, Exams, UK Universities & Education News

Nine Memes Of Ryan Gosling Telling You To Study

2013-05-16T04:54:24Z

Nine memes of Ryan Gosling telling you to revise for your GCSEs, A-levels, finals, whatever.

Because we can never ever get enough of looking at his...

Read more: Finals, University Exams, Ryan Gosling, Revision, A-Levels, Celebrity, Memes, Exams, Advice, Gcses, UK Universities & Education News

Atlanta Plowden: Why Congratulatory Letters From the Office of Willetts Will Only Fuel Our Misconceptions of What Achievement Is

2013-05-14T11:16:01Z

What this proposal really shows is that the matter of achievement is associated only with the acquirement of the higher grades and not when a student is awarded with a grade that corresponds with their potential and effort.

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Exam Studying Memes Are Key To Revision, Said No-One, Ever

2013-05-14T04:33:32Z

Right, so we all know A-levels, AS-levels, GCSEs, uni finals etc etc etc are upon us, and we're sure everyone's busy revising (ahem).

And, the love...

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Alice Rigby: Letters of GCSE Praise for Poorer students Are Too Little, Too Late

2013-04-30T13:49:05Z

Many commentators have observed that the proposals seem at best an impractical use of resources and at worst deeply patronising. The complications of implementing the policy seem to make it a difficult one to advocate; is a child defined as poor if they attend a poor school or come from a poor family?

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Alix Long: See You on the Other Side?

2013-04-27T08:42:57Z

So this is it. Finally, after almost two years of mocks and modules and in some cases re-sits, I am finally entering the murky couple of months of GCSEs.

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Benjamin Butterworth: When Did Nineties Kids Become So Old?

2013-04-29T19:00:00Z

It would be a lie to suggest that nothing changes. I no longer throw extended, highly emotional screaming matches at being forced to eat sprouts, like I did when I was 12. Or wet the bed, like I did when I was 12. But fundamentally, it doesn't feel so different. I for one prefer a Tracey Beaker omnibus and ice cream to paying bills.

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GCSE English Coursework To Be Slashed

2013-04-26T04:22:17Z

GCSE English will contain less coursework in the future under new proposals to overhaul the qualification, it was announced on Friday.

From next su...

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More Pupils Taking 'Tougher' GCSEs

2013-04-26T03:59:45Z

Soaring numbers of pupils are being entered for a qualification that is often seen as a tougher alternative to GCSEs, new figures suggest.

Schools ...

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Jacob Fritz: Inappropriate Correspondence: The Patronising Plan of the Tory Government.

2013-04-19T11:10:24Z

In what has been labelled as a step to encourage those from poorer backgrounds to attempt to attain places at highly ranked universities; it seems to me that the Conservative Government are effectively saying congratulations for achieving something that has been made considerably easier for the wealthy.

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'I Will Not Let An Exam Result Decide My Fate'

2013-04-23T04:22:39Z

A video titled "I Will Not Let An Exam Result Decide My Fate" has gone viral, reducing some viewers to tears and causing others to speak about their h...

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Proactive Or Patronising?

2013-04-19T04:41:24Z

Poorer students who achieve top marks in their GCSE exams will receive a "well done" letter from ministers, it has been revealed, prompting accusation...

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Christina Robert: The Future of Education is Now

2013-04-12T15:32:36Z

In an effort to get out of the house and away from the blood vessel popping effort to keep my mouth shut, I recently went to hear the wunderkind of modern education speak at Portcullis House. In case you are old and backward like me, his name is Salman Khan.

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Melanie Kendry: What's the Best Way to Revise? Cheat and Skive

2013-03-30T12:21:57Z

Picture this: you're revising. But you're not entering the realm of despair, wondering about flights to South America or what you'd look like with a moustache. How is this possible? The answer's not an app, robot, or human clone and you can't buy it on the internet. Here are the low-tech secrets that will take away your revision pain.

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Ethnic Minority Groups Outperform White British Students

2013-03-22T04:48:02Z

White British children are being outperformed at school by a wide range of ethnic minority groups, including Chinese, Sri Lankan and Nigerian youngste...

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India Ross: Why Aren't We Teaching Cinema in Schools?

2013-03-12T10:20:28Z

We must ask ourselves what we are trying to achieve by educating in the arts. Are we growing recital-bots, who store Western culture's greatest hits on some internal Dictaphone, to be replayed on request at interviews and after-dinner appearances? Probably. But no culture swot is complete without a Fellini to his Flaubert. He just doesn't know it yet.

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Alex Dyer: Ten of the Best Apps for Easter Revision

2013-03-04T13:33:45Z

The apps reviewed are excellent additional revision resources and learning aids and a lot of them are totally free. I would recommend that both students and their parents get to grips with what's out there to help with revision planning, note-taking, data storage, grammar aids and exam count downs.

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Sakthy Selvakumaran: What Women Want: Engineering's Hidden Human Side?

2013-02-28T04:45:26Z

I am not one to put faith in gender stereotypes, but with careers such as nursing, biological research and social work drawing a much higher proportion of females, I am lead to question whether the perception of engineering as a "heavy" industry, almost sterile of human interaction is putting women off.

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Students Lose GCSE Exam Challenge At High Court

2013-02-13T05:19:08Z

An alliance of hundreds of pupils, schools, local councils and unions has lost a High Court challenge to overturn GCSE English exam grades.

The all...

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