The worsening situation of increasing numbers of students coming under financial pressure and hardship is moving on fast. The defensive campaign for help seems to be advancing slowly by crawling while under fire. Yet advancing it is. Two more reports…
Removing BTECs from the qualification options for large numbers of students will have a profound and lasting effect on those hoping to strive for something better. The success of past BTEC students provides a ready reminder of what is already…
A keynote policy speech by Keir Starmer earlier today, and at the Scottish Labour Conference over the weekend, renewed the party toward electoral success across GB and especially in Scotland. There is an atmosphere of ‘cup fever’ as the inevitable…
Most have tried to improve their admissions policies but the impact is patchy, BBC analysis finds. Bit this is not surprising- surely that is the real point of grammar schools. — Read on www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-64714201
It seems some strange things are happening with the new AI Bots as they are learning exponentially from the inquiries made. Maybe they are learning more about humans than we are learning from them. When paired with Microsoft’s Bing search…
The crude strategy of keeping student maintenance funding below what is needed to survive was fully confirmed yesterday in the Department for Education’s own ‘equality analysis’. Armed with the information therein, they have deliberately pressed on with a game plan…
A report in the Times today, ‘PM’s foreign student plan to shore up economy; Increase in working hours to plug job vacancies’, has certainly raised a few eyebrows in our universities. It reveals a reckless disregard for the time needed…
The crude strategy of the government appears to be one of keeping student maintenance funding below what is needed to survive and thus push families to fill the gap. The reality is that many students put in more hours in…
The chair of the Social Mobility Commission, Katharine Birbalsingh, resigned at the end of last week in the latest episode of an increasingly dysfunctional organisation. She follows in the footsteps of other chairs who gave up and resigned when they…
The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in education is causing some considerable disquiet amongst educators who see it as ‘cheating’. This could be in the context of writing assignments or in taking shortcuts in assessment of the same…
