Coursework change marks new era
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BBC education correspondent Mike Baker on moves to reduce the amount of GCSE coursework.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard University proposed a curriculum overhaul Wednesday to emphasize sciences, religious beliefs, and world cultures.
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A report suggests maths A-levels have become easier and no longer stretch the brightest pupils.
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GCSE coursework has become "less valid" and should be scrapped in several subjects, the exams watchdog says.
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Teachers are going to have to make some changes.
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BBC education correspondent Mike Baker unravels the trends in university applications.
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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The number of students choosing to take university courses abroad has more than doubled in recent years.
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Changes at The Journal: movable deadlines and a new taste for models.
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SOUTH Australia&#39;s students have shown improvement in an international science and mathematics study last held a decade ago, and defied a national trend.
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Some changes are made to the plan to divert Â£100m from people doing second degrees.
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BBC education correspondent Mike Baker examines new figures which show a dramatic decline in the number of adult learners.
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The names of the characters have also changed.
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Media & professional: Â· New chance to catch up on basics or play to strengthsÂ· Hitler and Churchill are no longer compulsory
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Flood of applications, financial aid changes have roiled admissions process for students and colleges.
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For a glimpse of the latest split between tradition and technology on campus, watch professor Tom Walsh illustrate his lecture with a jumbo piece of chalk on a blackboard while students take notes on laptops and hand-held computers.
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Work-related skills like museum management and tourism will be included in a new history GCSE.