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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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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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Exam Board Admits Major Grade Errors
OCR has admitted more than 250 pupils will have their grades raised owing to errors in the addition of sub-totals on their exam papers. 4 examiners have been sacked and 78 have been warned regarding their performance.
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‘Brainbox Test’ - New Fodder for Pushy Parents
A new test which is designed to push those most gifted and talented pupils is being hailed as ‘a dog whistle to the middle class’, according to education expert John Bangs, of the Institute of Education.
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English and Maths Teaching to Continue to 18.
Under a new provision by Michael Gove, Education Secretary, pupils who fail to achieve at least a grade C at English and Maths at 16, will continue to receive teaching in those subjects until the age of 18.
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China Outperforms Us All China Outperforms Us All
The 2009 Pisa tests - the Programme for International Student Assessment - show Shanghai becoming a world leader in Education as well as in other more corporate fields. Where Europe once led, the East has begun to take over, causing global comment. The White House responded to the last Pisa results with President Barack Obama's observation that the nation which "out-educates us today will out-compete us tomorrow".
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Dyslexia Training for All Teachers?
A new report by the charity Action on Dyslexia suggests that more needs to be done to aid teachers in identifying and teaching children with dyslexia. Writing for the BBC News Education page today (27/06/2012) Judith Burns reports that the charity found ‘Almost two thirds of parents of dyslexic children (61%) said their child had to wait a year for help after being diagnosed.
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Back & Forth, Back & Forth
Can you believe it? Another call for reform in the field of Education. Michael Gove is being called to comment on a leak from his office in which plans to revert to O Level type qualifications are being discussed.
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