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Debt and living costs are forcing university students to work during their final year at university, a study found yesterday. Research commissioned by the Higher Education Careers Services Unit found that students in their third year were much more likely to find a job than those in their first year. The study is following 50,000 university students from completing their UCAS application to getting a job.
Education	The Sentinel November 18, 2010



The naming and shaming of failing schools works, research claims. Researchers at Bristol University said the publication of league tables raises average school performance. Bristol’s Centre for Market and Public organisation compared the educational outcomes in England, where tables of secondary schools are published and Wales where they have been abolished. It revealed abolishing tables saw a fall of two GCSE grades per pupil, per year.
Education	The Sentinel November 3, 2010



This summer’s A-level results saw the seventh consecutive year-on-year increase in the number of students taking Religious Studies (RS) A-level, with a slight increase of 0.7 percent against 2009 capping a total increase of 47.3 per cent in the five years since 2004. Church educationalists interpret the continued increase as further evidence that young people are interested in exploring religious perspectives on the big questions in life and in studying how different moral and cultural frameworks shape people’s understanding of the world around them.
Education	The Wey October-2010



Schools could be forced to axe subjects from their timetables to cope with budget cuts, it was reported today. The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) is reportedly advising schools to look at scrapping courses which are only taken by small numbers of students, if they are not cost effective. The move could hit optional subjects like languages, which are already suffering from a decline in candidates. The Government is to set our spending cuts next month. While there has been a promise to protect frontline services, schools are braced for reductions.
Education	The Sentinel, Friday, September 3, 2010



Atheist schools could be created under the coalition Government’s new plans, as Education Secretary Michael Gove has said he is interested in a school run by prominent atheist Professor Richard Dawkins. Mr Gove told MPs on the all-party Commons Education Select Committee that he “recognised that there are some people who explicitly do not want their children educated in a faith-based setting. If Professor Dawkins wants to set up a school, we would be very interested to look at an application.”
Education	The Church Of England Newspaper - August 6th 2010



The Government is ready to back the creation of atheist schools as part of its series of reforms [according to] the Education Secretary, Michael Gove. He told MP’s: “It wouldn’t be my choice of school but the whole point of our education reforms is that they are, in the broad sense of the word, small ‘l’ liberal. They exist to provide that greater degree of choice”. Mr Gove, whose two children attend primary faith schools, said he ‘recognised that there are some people who explicitly do not want their children educated in a faith-based setting’.
Education	‘Salvationist’ – 7 August, 2010



Parents are feeling the strain of putting their child through university as the effects of the recession continue to be felt. More than eight in 10 parents (82 per cent) agree that the economic downturn is already or is set to make it harder for them to support their child through their studies. And many are severely underestimating the debt their child will leave university with.
Education	‘The Sentinel’ – July 15, 2010



Tens of thousands of would-be students are likely to be denied a place at university this autumn, after another record year of applications. Figures published by the university admissions service, Ucas, reveal applications have risen by 11.6 per cent on last year. In total, 660,953 people from the UK and abroad applied by the June 30 deadline to start full-time undergraduate courses at UK institutions this autumn compared to 592,312 last year. In September 2009, 373,793 UK and EU students were accepted onto courses at English universities.
Education	‘The Sentinel’ – July 16, 2010



The success of England’s academy schools was questioned today after figures suggested their exam pass rate was down to vocational and “equivalent” qualifications, not GCSEs. Fewer than half of academy exam passes at GCSE were made up of “academic” GCSEs according to data gained through parliamentary questions. The Government is planning a rapid expansion of the academies programme, with Education Secretary Michael Gove inviting every primary and secondary school in England to apply for the status.
Education	‘The Sentinel’ – July 2, 2010.



The union representing university lecturers has warned fast-track degrees are in danger of becoming “academic sweatshops” which devalue students’ education. Staffordshire University is one of just a handful of institutions to pilot the degrees. It has hundreds of students enrolled on the courses, which are taken over two years instead of the traditional three.
Education	The Sentinel – 1st June 2010



The Government on April 7 bowed to pressure and withdrew its highly controversial home education and sex education plans for England. It is believed that the Conservative Party blocked the sex education plans. Both the Tories and Lib Dems were opposed to the home education proposals. Under the proposals, sex education was to become a statutory part of the national curriculum and control over the content of lessons was to be taken away from school governors and given to Whitehall officials.
Education	Evangelicals Now, May 2010



More than half of British adults think that intelligent design should be taught alongside beliefs such as creationism in school science lessons – a proportion higher than in the US. An Ipsos Mori survey questioned 11,768 adults from 10 countries on how the theory of evolution should be taught in school science lessons. About 54% of the 973 polled Britons agreed with the view: “Evolutionary theories should be taught in science lessons in schools together with other possible perspectives, such as intelligent design and creationism.”
Education	The Son, Winter 2009



Nearly one in six children in England failed to get a place at their first choice secondary school this year, Government figures showed today. Results for applications by more than half a million children showed 83.2 per cent were offered a place at their preferred school for September. The refusal rate was 16.8 per cent – the same percentage as March 2009. Statistics from the Department for Children, Schools and Families show 94.9 per cent of families received an offer of a place at one of their top three.
Education	The Sentinel, Friday March 12, 2010



A new league table shows Stoke-On-Trent has the sixth worst record, out of more than 200 local authorities in Britain, for 16-24-year-olds who hold at least one qualification. The league table has been published by the University and College Union (UCU), which represents lecturers. The UCU says the findings mean Stoke-On-Trent is a “qualifications desert.” The union says efforts to encourage more teenagers to stick with their studies are hampered by complex funding systems.
Education	The Sentinel – February 24th 2010



Children who read daily when aged three are more than two months ahead of their classmates in literacy and maths by the age of five, research found today. Reading is more important to a child’s academic development than teaching them the alphabet or how to count, the University of London study suggests. Researcher Dr Kirstine Hansen said: “Reading has a positive effect.”
Education	The Sentinel – February 17th 2010

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