- 02/09/10
- Imperial College London is to set up a new medical school in Singapore in the latest move by an elite British university to establish a presence in Asia.
- Source: The Guardian
- 02/09/10
- Schools must earn poor pupil payment, the Sutton Trust tells education secretary Gove.
- Source: The Guardian
- 02/09/10
- A study found many students copied phrases directly from the internet into their personal statement – a detailed note setting out their reasons for choosing a particular course.
- Source: The Telegraph
- 02/09/10
- Top universities should be ‘free to charge higher fees’, says President Steve Smith of Universities UK and vice-chancellor of Exeter University.
- Source: Independent
- 02/09/10
- Many universities set to lose income overall if cap is lifted, warns Paul Benneworth, of the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
- Source: Times Higher Education
- 02/09/10
- Millions of graduates will now start paying interest on their student loans again as new interest rates come into effect.
- Source: BBC News
- 02/09/10
- A total of 142 schools will convert to academy status this year, a surge that will increase the number by half but will still fall short of the government’s projections for its “revolution” in schools.
- Source: Daily Mail
- 01/09/10
- Characters like Miss Agatha Trunchbull, from Roald Dahl’s Matilda, or the Demon Headmaster, from the sequence by Gillian Cross, can teach children to think about power and how it can be used for malign purposes, Professor Pat Thomson, director of the centre for research in schools and communities at Nottingham University school of education, has found.
- Source: The Guardian
- 01/09/10
- The use of phrases such as “silly boys” and “schoolboy pranks” can reinforce the view that boys are more likely to misbehave than girls, it was claimed.
- Source: The Telegraph
- 31/08/10
- With the government looking in every direction to wield its cost-cutting axe, the Reading Agency last week put out a plea that libraries should “not be a soft target for cuts”. The declaration came in response to statistics released by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport last week showing that nearly two-thirds of Britons didn’t visit a library last year. That triggered fears that the figures were a prelude to mass library closures.
- Source: The Guardian