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Ex-Military Personnel take short-cut into Teaching under new Scheme
A new government scheme has been announced which will enable former soldiers to qualify as teachers. The scheme, which is due to be piloted in 2014, will allow former soldiers who do not have degrees to sign up for a programme which will qualify them to teach in half the time it usually takes.
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Top Universities Fail to Widen Participation
This week the Office for Fair Access (Offa) has revealed that top universities in England have made little or no progress in recruiting students from disadvantaged backgrounds over the last 5 years.
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Drive to Create a National Association of Tutors
A think tank called ‘The Centre for Market Reform of Education’ is leading a drive to create a National Association of Tutors for the UK.
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Tuition Fees Should be Means-Tested
The education charity the Sutton Trust has urged the government to allow students from poor backgrounds to pay less in university tuition fees. The charity has said that university tuition fees should be means-tested in order to ensure that disadvantaged students are not prohibited from applying to university.
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Tuition Fees Could be Reduced to £6000 a Year
This week the Million+ group of universities published research which suggests that Tuition fees in England could be reduced to £6,000 a year without increasing the costs of Universities or the Treasury.
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Gove Announces A Level Split Between England, Wales and Northern Ireland
The education secretary, Michael Gove, has announced that it is time for England, Wales and Northern Ireland to go their separate ways on GCSEs and A Levels.
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Increasing Teachers' Salaries will mean Larger Class Sizes
Ofsted’s chief schools inspector has said that if teachers are to be paid higher wages, then class sizes must increase. He went on to say that schools could not afford “highly paid” staff, whilst maintaining reasonable class sizes. His comments come after legislation to introduce performance related pay for teacher has been passed. The scheme for rewarding teachers based on performance will commence from September this year.
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Rise in Tuition Fees Doesn't Mean More Teaching Time
This week a survey by the Higher Education Policy Institute and Which? consumer group has revealed that university students receive just 18 minutes more teaching time each week than they did seven years ago. This is despite the fact that tuition fees have risen from £1000 to £9000 a year over this period
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GCSE Marks to Change
The government has revealed plans to replace the top GCSE marks A* and A with a numerical scale ranging from one to four. The move was proposed by the education secretary to MPs this week, and presented as a means via which employers and universities could distinguish between high achieving candidates.
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