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News: Gove plans to change GCSE grading
Posted by admin on May 16, 2013 in Blog Latest News | 0 comment
Top GCSE marks of A* and A could be replaced by a one to four numerical scale, education secretary Michael Gove told MPs on Wednesday, as one option to distinguish between high achieving candidates and make a break with the previous grades awarded. “Rather than having A*, A and B, you might have one, two, [...]
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News: Young people have 10% less chance of securing a job.
Posted by admin on May 14, 2013 in Blog Latest News | 0 comment
Report finds 58% of 18-24-year-olds found work in 2013, against almost 65% in 2009, leaving a shortfall of 395,000 jobs. Young people are 10% less likely to be in work today than before the recession, the TUC has said ahead of official data tomorrow that is expected to show stubbornly persistent unemployment. Only 58% of [...]
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News: Lord Young proposes removing start-up loans age cap
Posted by admin on May 14, 2013 in Blog Latest News | 0 comment
An age cap on accessing taxpayer-funded loans to set up a business should be removed, says the prime minister’s enterprise adviser, Lord Young. His latest report says those over 30 should be eligible for start-up loans. It is one of several proposals which PM David Cameron said would help “fire up business growth” in the UK. [...]
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News: Pupils ‘segregated from society’ by exclusive private schools
Posted by admin on May 10, 2013 in Blog Latest News | 0 comment
Private schools are “seriously disabling” pupils by segregating them from the rest of society, the former Labour schools minister has warned. A sharp rise in fees in recent years has left the independent education system so exclusive that children fail to mix with peers “who don’t have parents of substantial means”, said Lord Adonis. In [...]
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News: Cambridge tutors to school A-level physics students
Posted by admin on May 8, 2013 in Blog Latest News | 0 comment
Academics from Cambridge University are to help tutor sixth-form physics students across the UK to prepare them better for university study. The five-year project will offer online learning, workshops for students and support for physics teachers. It is hoped the scheme will give students physics expertise beyond school level and encourage more to take the [...]
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