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Debate Heats Up Over Higher Education Funding
Talks are underway between senior government ministers as to whether the student opportunity fund will be maintained. The fund, currently £327m, is in place to support students from disadvantaged backgrounds in completing their university studies.
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Licence for Education
Labour have recently announced that they want to introduce a teaching ‘licence’ which would allow teachers to prove they had the skills necessary to teach in state school classrooms.
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Labour's Plan to Licence Teachers
Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has proposed that all state school teachers should be required to have professional teaching qualifications. He criticised the government’s policy of allowing unqualified teachers to work in academies and free schools, and said that under a Labour government only qualified teachers would work in state schools.
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Analysing Tutor Assessments
Pete's blog 27-1-14: For a while I’ve been concerned that we don’t have a good way of monitoring the scores that assessors give...
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Unhealthy Competition
If this is how parents are behaving in public, how are they behaving at home where there are no teachers to issue guidelines on how competitive they are allowed to be?
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Aysmmetric School Week Proposed
Called the “asymmetric week’, the proposals would mean that students served by the council would spend four and a half days in school each week instead of 5.
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Revision Tips from a Private Tutor
There are some revision tips which are useful for all students, which anyone can implement if they put their mind to it
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Schools Complain About Pushy Parents
The head of a prep school in North London has complained that parents are putting their children under too much pressure. The head of St Aubyns has said that the issue was highlighted by school sports days, where parents were being overly competitive and yelling inappropriately
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More Tutor Lesson Goals Problems
Pete's blog 20-1-14: Last week I received an interesting email from a tutor following his assessment...
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