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Wendy Jones

Too Many Children Leave School Without Maths Skills for Life

Wendy Jones | Posted 23 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education

England's school inspectors - known collectively by the little-loved acronym of Ofsted (www.ofsted.gov.uk- that's the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills, in case you were wondering....) - have just published a report on the state of mathematics in English schools. Like most education reports, it's a tale...

Nikki Harper

Ultra Vires Home Education Monitoring: Badman By the Back Door?

Nikki Harper | Posted 23 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education

Three years ago this June, the Badman Review ignited controversy with proposals for the compulsory registration of home educating families in England. Ed Balls was eventually forced to drop these measures from the Children, Schools and Families Bill - but are some local authorities still hoping to implement Badman via...

John Walmsley

Is Teaching Public Service in School the Answer to Fixing 'Broken Britain'?

John Walmsley | Posted 22 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education

Ever since the riots blazed across UK streets and TV sets worldwide last year, debate has raged on the catalyst that sparked an estimated 15,000 individuals to become one angry mob. Around 70% of the London 2011 rioters were under the age of 24 so identifying a root cause could...

B.J. Epstein

Harry Potter and the Ivory Tower: Children's Literature and Academia

B.J. Epstein | Posted 22 May 2012 | UK Culture

Last week, there was an academic conference at the University of St Andrews dedicated to the Harry Potter series of books. Over 50 academics gathered to discuss J.K. Rowling's books, and apparently this caused quite a stir among people who think that children's literature is not worthy of study.

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Scott Bryan

Being Dyslexic Can Actually Be Bloody Brilliant

Scott Bryan | Posted 21 May 2012 | UK Lifestyle

I'm dyslexic. That's right. Richard Branson, Albert Einstein, Henry Winkler and Orlando Bloom and I can all officially high-five each other.

I was diagnosed about three years ago, during the second year of my university study, undetected throughout my entire school life. If you have to place how dyslexic I...

Raconteur Media

TV Dragon Gets Apprentices Hired

Raconteur Media | Posted 21 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education

INTERVIEW Multi-millionaire entrepreneur Peter Jones tells Liz Lightfoot how he wants to boost business with new-style apprenticeships

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Students come in at 16, often with mediocre GCSE results and lacklustre school reports. After two years they are beating Oxbridge graduates...

Sarah Slater

Five Best Ways To Revise For Exams, By An Oxbridge Applications Consultant

Sarah Slater | Posted 21 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education

Students all over the world are facing the music with school exams in full swing at the moment - not to mention finals for those already at university. And with students being tested on more information across a wide range of subjects, remembering what you've been taught is vital. Revision...

Stephanie Allen

The Great Intellectual Debate

Stephanie Allen | Posted 20 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education

I was recently forwarded an email which contained a link to Richard Branson's own personal blog. Now I'll admit, naively I didn't even realise Mr Branson had a blog! But it makes sense - he's one of our country's greatest entrepreneurs so he probably has a fair amount to say...

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Zain Sardar

Fair Pay Campus Campaign: The Spirit of the HE Sector?

Zain Sardar | Posted 17 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education

Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson's The Spirit Level became an instant bible and seminal piece of thorough analysis for equality campaigners everywhere when it was first published in 2009. The underlying idea behind its socio-economic analysis is a simple one: that more equal societies tend to have more cohesive communities...

Martin Davidson

Why Do UK Students Not Seize the Opportunity to Study Abroad?

Martin Davidson | Posted 17 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education

For 25 years, UK university students have had access to a scheme that offers life-changing opportunities. It can boost their employability, increase their knowledge, skills, and personal experience, and save them money - particularly welcome as tuition fees rise up to £9,000 a year. Yet despite all of this, relatively...

Rod Bristow

Cultivating Ambition in Education

Rod Bristow | Posted 17 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education

This week, Pearson announced some long-term commitments and a wide ranging set of recommendations to help raise standards and build confidence in UK examinations following an extensive consultation.

The debate about standards in the UK examination system turns heads because the importance of education is more vivid now...

Michael Morpurgo

Moving on From War Horse and Discovering Young Writing Talent

Michael Morpurgo | Posted 17 May 2012 | UK Culture

Well, the film of War Horse came and went, much loved by many, less loved by others. I thought it was a wonderful adaptation of the story, as the play is too. The book used to sell only a couple of thousand of copies a year and was translated into...

Eleanor Davis

Sex Education: Falling on Deaf Ears

Eleanor Davis | Posted 17 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education

With deafness playing a large part in my family life; my mother is a Sign Language Interpreter and both my uncle and aunt are profoundly deaf, deaf culture and sign language have always been of interest to me. Yet it was only when I began working for Deafax, a UK...

Alice Barnard

Apprenticeships: The Real Story

Alice Barnard | Posted 14 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education

Traditionally, apprenticeships were the main route into business. Some of the country's best-known entrepreneurs mastered their skills this way: Michel Roux, restaurateur and Masterchef judge, British fashion designer Karen Millen, and hair-product entrepreneur John Frieda all learned their crafts via apprenticeship schemes.

Apprenticeships are just as relevant and valuable...

Andy Burrows

Student Visa Restrictions Damaging & Badly Communicated

Andy Burrows | Posted 13 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education

In the first of a new series exploring the radical changes the British higher education system is undergoing, I look at how new student visa restrictions are affecting international students.

Last year Theresa May announced that 260,000 fewer student visas will be given out over the...

Professor Ross Williams

Which are the World's Top Countries for Higher Education?

Professor Ross Williams | Posted 11 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education

While there are any number of well-regarded global rankings of universities and colleges, these don't reveal anything about national systems, the environment which different countries provide for education, for the institutions and students themselves.

Given the significance of Higher Education in economic growth and development, it's important for governments to...

Dennis Hayes

Academic Affairs

Dennis Hayes | Posted 11 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education

The fear of litigation appears to dominate the minds of university bureaucrats. Telephone directories of regulations covering all aspects of educational life are the result. What is rarely understood is that the real and the hypothetical legal challenges to the authority of universities and lecturers are a symptom, a direct...

Cathy Cross

Classrooms Shouldn't be Standardised: Why Those Four Walls Must Inspire

Cathy Cross | Posted 8 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education

I love making dens. Give me some string, a sheet and a few bamboo sticks and I can knock up another world in minutes. Somewhere to play, have fun and make up your own rules. But den making isn't something I do just for my own children. Every week I...

Sara Bran

Are We There Yet? When Your Kids Graduate

Sara Bran | Posted 8 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education

My eldest daughter Lily finishes school this week, by which I mean she will have completed her 'formal education' to age 16.

From now on, it's up to her whether she continues with her schooling or leaves. Today, she has her last ever PE lesson after which she intends to...

Vesela Gladicheva

I Loved the Cheap Public Transport, Says British Student Who Did a Semester in Argentina

Vesela Gladicheva | Posted 7 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education

The football enthusiast would instantly shout out Maradona and Messi. The movie lover would point to Evita. The wine specialist would endorse the Mendoza wine. What would you associate Argentina with?

Argentina may not be as popular a destination for UK students studying Spanish as Spain, but it was where...

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