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Big Businesses Kick School Teaching Where It Hurts
Google has waded in to the debate on ICT teaching, just as the London Evening Standard did on Literacy. Both have felt it necessary to intervene in a curriculum that isn’t providing what the industries say they need.
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University of Bedfordshire criticised over PhD appeal.
The university standards watchdog has severely criticised the University of Bedfordshire after a PhD which was failed by an external examiner was awarded a pass, on appeal, by the university panel.
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Special Schools to Create a Newly Skilled Workforce
Fifteen new schools which are specifically designed to ready schoolchildren for the workplace are to be set up in England. For pupils aged 14 and over, the schools combine academic teaching with work based training. Pupils do a 9-5 day in order to prepare them for the work place.
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I hate Javascript
Pete's blog 7-8-12: I must have spent 20 hours last week just trying to sort out a really annoying problem on the website...
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Adult Learner Concessions
Ministers have announced that money will now be made available for adult learners studying in Further Education. Currently the government funds half the cost of Adult Learner courses with the students funding the rest. from 2013, however, the government wanted the students to bear the whole cost themselves, taking out loans if necessary.
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Unpaid Lesson Fees
It is a sad fact that we do occasionally get clients who fail to pay up despite having enjoyed a significant period of tuition. We do strongly advise that you don’t allow a large amount of fees to accrue but understand that sometimes, during periods of intensive lessons, this may prove more difficult to avoid than it sounds.
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When was the last time you looked at our website?
I mean apart from the few minute updates you make every week. Before I became the Blue Tutors Administrator I must admit I hadn’t really looked at it for ages. It was my interview preparation that made me re read the pages I had read a couple of years before when preparing for my assessment. It’s a shame because our website is full of really good teaching advice.
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Catch up Classes
The government is to provide catch up classes for those pupils who do not reach level 4 by the end of primary school. BBC News Education reports that under the new scheme disadvantaged pupils, who are behind in reading and writing, are to be offered extra lessons before starting secondary school, ministers have announced. Last year, some 100,000 11-year-olds did not reach this level - the standard expected of the age group.
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Tutor Assessment Scare
Pete's blog 31-7-12: We had a bit of a shock last weekend when an assessment day nearly went the way of the pear...
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