Surge in pupils getting extra time in exams raises fears of cheating
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The exams watchdog is reporting a rapid increase in the number of pupils being given extra time in exam rooms amid fears that teachers are exploiting rules designed to give dyslexic pupils a fair chance.The number of pupils appealing to have allowances made because of a personal crisis or illness at the time of their [...]
Brought to account
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One of the last reported utterances by the founder of the training giant Carter %26 Carter now sounds like hubris. With the excitement of a man whose business nigh on doubled in size last year, Philip Carter declared: “With a similar rate of growth, we’ll achieve the same income as Cambridge University in four or [...]
Universities get down to business
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Even 10 years ago, the idea that academics from Cambridge would be offering workplace courses to ophthalmic dispensing assistants at Specsavers would have been about as likely as Lambrusco being served at high table. But universities’ involvement with business continues apace, and the government has now focused its vision on expanding higher education by inviting [...]
Sales of Utah homes drop 33.8%
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Sales of existing homes in Utah dropped 33.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007, compared to the fourth-quarter of 2006, mirroring decreases in much of the rest of the nation, according to a report released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors.
The median sale [...]
Immigrant tuition repeal removed from bill
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A proposed repeal of in-state tuition for undocumented students may have been removed from an omnibus immigration bill under consideration in the Senate, but the proposal remains alive as a stand-alone measure.
HB231 would repeal a 2002 law that allows undocumented immigrants pay the lower in-state [...]
BYU study finds firstborns have big edge in attention
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PROVO More bad news for younger siblings: a new study out of Brigham Young University suggests that first-born children get thousands of hours more attention from their parents.
This latest study follows recent national reports that first-born children make more money, have more education and score [...]
Utah bucks U.S. trend Foreclosures fall 17%
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The housing crunch is leaving many homeowners across the nation in crisis, with almost 80 percent more homes going into some stage of foreclosure in 2007, but the Beehive State is continuing to buck the national trend: Foreclosures in Utah declined nearly 17 percent in 2007 from 2006.
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Free at last
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Blair Unboundby Anthony Seldon with Peter Snowdon and Daniel Collings 669pp, Simon %26 Schuster, %26pound;25The word doesn’t occur in my dictionary, but at the heart of Anthony Seldon’s dauntingly detailed second instalment of his history of the premiership of Tony Blair is the study of a cliquocracy: the entrusting of a government’s fundamental direction not [...]
The science of success
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While the Queen enjoys her 60th wedding anniversary, celebrations at City and Islington College have been focusing on an earlier royal milestone.The north London college is one of the 20 winners in the seventh round of the Queen’s anniversary prizes for exceptional achievement in higher and further education, instituted in 1993 to mark her 40 [...]
Turkish Lawmakers Vote to Ease Curbs on Headscarf (Update2)
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Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) — Turkish legislators voted to soften a
ban on the Muslim headscarf, a measure that has increased tensions
between Turkeys Islamist-rooted government and the secular armed
forces and judiciary.
The Grand National [...]
