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New Reading Test Damages Children's ability to learn
Teachers have highlighted the fact that the test only looks at children’s ability to decode words using a single method, phonics, rather than their ability to read overall. One of the biggest issues is that bright students who use a different method of reading are trying to read the made-up word as real ones and are being marked down for it.
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New University Comparison Website for Students
A new comparison website has been set up which will supply government approved information about Universities and the Courses that they offer.
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Headteachers Say A* Grades Force Bright Students to 'Dumb Down'
A report published this week by the HMC, a group of leading independent school head teachers, criticises the current exam system for forcing bright students to ‘dumb down’ their answers in order to fit within narrow mark schemes.
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Students Plan Mass Legal Action over GCSE Results
t emerged this week that so far 180 pupils have joined legal action being brought against the exams regulator Ofqual by schools and councils. The students are seeking to force a regrade of their June exam papers, on the basis that the grade boundaries were made a full 10 marks higher than those for exams taken by their peers in January.
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Qualifications and Classes
Pete's blog 2-10-12: I’ve been doing a lot of work on qualifications over the last week...
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When Schools Let Students Down
Whilst there are the same number of bright students coming into university, the standard of their basic reading and writing skills is falling sharply.
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GCSEs to be Replaced with English Baccalaureate
Amidst controversy surrounding the marking and standards of GCSE papers this summer, Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced that the GCSE exams are going to be replaced by a qualification called the English Baccalaureate Certificate.
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New College of Humanities Fails to Attract Students as it Opens this Term
Founder philosopher A C Grayling insisted that there were many students and parents who would see their way to paying these fees for what would be the best education in the country. However, just three weeks before the university is due to open, the college has only recruited a third of the students it intended to for their first year.
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UK Universities Among the best in the World
Results published this week rank UK universities as some of the best in the world. Cambridge, which came top last year, was ranked second in the global league table, along with UCL, Oxford and Imperial which took fourth, fifth and sixth places respectively.
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