UK drops back in graduate figures
The competition from abroad has intensified from universities, not so much that they are attracting more foreign student’s, it’s the home grown variety that is boosting the graduate figures. Once again the UK has dropped down in the amount of graduate numbers and has actually moved down the table that compares graduation rates from the [...]
September 27, 2007Schools failing young people
Finally the education secretary Ed Balls has admitted that the state education system in England is failing young people. But he has promised to introduce a new drive which will improve standards, which is something that we keep hearing, but the results never appear to follow.
It has been ten years now and still Labour have [...]
Little work needed for a Degree
There are some serious questions being asked about the hours studying needed in order to gain a good Degree. These questions have come about as a result of a study commissioned by the Higher Education Policy Institute.
The study hours vary in different universities. Such as an undergraduate studying law at Sussex University, could get a [...]
Majority against private education
In a poll commissioned by YouGov only 29% were for private education, yet in the same poll but taking the views of Conservative voters the figure rises to 51%, but you would have expected there to be a higher percentage to be in favour of this type of education in this sector of the voting [...]
September 21, 2007Schools to get tough on cyber bullying
The government is advising schools that they should be getting tough on bullies who are using mobile phones and the internet to bully other children. This has been a growing nuisance which is probably effecting a lot more children than the figures show, as some children a likely to keep the bullying to themselves, which [...]
September 19, 2007Class sizes still high
Despite all of the money that has been pumped into the education department and regardless of what anyone may say. Class sizes in the UK are still too large. In fact class sizes in the UK are actually the largest in the developed world, which is not a very nice place to be.
Out of all [...]
Education Quangos to merge
It seems that quangos come and go under the Labour government; the Quality Improvement Agency appears to be not long for this world, even tough it was only launched last year. There is talk that the QIA and the smaller Centre for Excellence in Leadership could be looking for a way to merge.
However this is [...]
The cost of UK education
There was a time when we would see students from many different countries coming to the UK for their further education, this however appears to have changed recently. The reason being that 30% of international students do not believe that the education that they receive is worth the money.
Throughout the UK last year there were [...]
Education linked to cancer
In fact the more educated that you are the less likely it would appear to die from cancer, according to research done by the American cancer society, people who have been educated to degree level have a 76% reduced risk of dying from cancer, which is astonishing.
There are also no boundaries, as higher education would [...]
OpenLearn offers free access to OU
Looking at the OpenLearn site, you can quickly see that through this site there is access to some the Open University courses, which great, but when you find that the access is free, then that is even better.
Sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation, a new student would need to sign up and register, but once that [...]
Expansion in faith schools expected
The way is being paved to remove the so called barriers for religious groups and schools who are looking to provide some sort of state education.
At the moment there are around a hundred Muslim schools that will become eligible to join up with the state education system, the government are suggesting that there aren’t enough [...]
Government to make further investment into education
While on visit to the Bristol Brunel Academy with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the Education Secretary Ed Balls announced that the government are to make a further investment of £21 billion in the education system.
The Bristol Brunel Academy cost £24 million to build and is part of an already planned project to build up [...]
Over 8,000 pupils miss school
It’s the start of the new school year, and yet more than 8,000 pupils are missing out on school because of the damage caused by the floods that hit the UK during the summer.
The were 857 schools affected by the flooding that hit wide ranging areas throughout the UK, yet the majority of the schools [...]
Education in the hands of citizen juries
It could sound like something from the French Revolution, groups of citizens sitting around a table deciding the fate of their next victim. But this is the “New” idea from the Prime Minister Gordon Brown who proposes that these citizen juries will over look more or less all public services.
Yet this is not a new [...]
Underachievers to stay on at school
It is believed that the conservatives will be proposing a revolutionary scheme in primary schools. This will involve those children who are underachievers and in order for them to catch up they may be required to spend an extra year in primary school.
The conservative leader David Cameron believes that this could become part of an [...]