AP stats may not be cause for joy
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While Utah is ninth in the nation for percentage of students passing Advanced Placement course exams in 2007, and Hispanic participation in AP testing is up statewide, an ethnic minority student advocate said the Hispanic figure is no reason to jump for joy.
That’s because while [...]
Tests reveal major inconsistencies between medical schools
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Tests taken by UK doctors show enormous variation in performance depending on which medical school they attended, according to new research that highlights the need for a national qualifying exam for all medical graduates.Medical graduates from Oxbridge and Newcastle universities performed better than average while those from Liverpool, Dundee, Belfast and Aberdeen universities did least [...]
Better shape up
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Kate Walters left Nottingham University in the summer of 2006 with a 2.1 in music, including a first in her final piano recital, and a strong inclination to build a career managing artists in her favourite medium: jazz. The good news, from her point of view, was that she soon landed a six-month internship with [...]
Call for more holistic approach to HE
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Universities will be urged to nourish students’ souls as well as their minds and wallets at the Guardian Higher Education summit in London next week.Today’s students are as interested in their own personal development as they are in learning about their subject or getting a well-paid job, university and student leaders will say.
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They will argue [...]
The folly of our test fixation is plain to all. Except ministers
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Let’s give the government some credit. Faced with almost united criticism over the way its testing regime has placed pressure on children and distorted learning in schools, it decided to try a different approach. Last December more than 400 primary schools took part in a pilot scheme for new, shorter Sats tests. The key idea [...]
Moving on up
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With hordes of big kids, dozens of new teachers and a sprawling campus of confusing corridors to contend with, an 11-year-old just starting secondary school is bound to feel very small. Almost two-thirds of pupils attend schools with more than 1,000 pupils on the roll, while the number being educated in giant schools of over [...]
The LondonDelhi express
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“It gave me a lot of flexibility,” recalls Poornima Prabhakaran, who was looking after two small children and holding down a part-time job as she studied for a University of London external degree. She plotted her week meticulously - and when exams loomed, she packed the kids off to her parents.The Indian doctor’s description last [...]
Capuccino complaints
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Four young mothers are sitting at the next table in Starbucks. “She’s just not motivating them,” says one. “He says she’s boring,” says another. “I’m going to have to go to the head about her,” says a third. “She can’t be any good for the league tables.” It rapidly becomes clear that they’re talking about [...]
Mourners brave morning chill for tickets to President Hinckleys funeral
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Randy Child spent most of Friday at the Salt Lake Temple and decided not to go home.
When Temple Square closed at 10 p.m., the Springville man opted to spend the night outside the north gates, wanting to make sure he was one of the 21,000 people to attend [...]
McTraining and real education
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Rowenna Davis (Mc A-levels will produce mere cogs in the machine) seems to suggest that while “corporations won’t waste time asking the bigger questions” traditional institutions will. I am not so sanguine.It is over 20 years since philosophy of education disappeared from the curricula of teacher training institutions. The last thing the government wanted was [...]
