Top head attacks exam coursework
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The head teacher of a top-performing private school says coursework should be scrapped because it is open to abuse.
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Four experts go head-to-head (to-head-to-head) to defend their Web browser of choice in an opinionated free-for-all.
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Conservatives outline plans to raise exam standards, undermining proposals for a diploma announced by Mike Tomlinson.
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The deans at two top law schools have admonished the operators of an Internet message board that hosts chats containing personal attacks against female students and racist and homophobic remarks. Letters written by the deans at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania law schools, were...
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The government's GP leader is to go on a charm offensive after weeks of damaging stories about the profession.
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The gaffe-prone higher education spokesman for the Conservatives has been in the soup again for speaking out of line on key areas of the party's new philosophy.
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Some administrators are pushing back against an ethos of super-achievement at affluent suburban high schools.
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Stress levels are poisoning attitudes towards education, General Teaching Council says.
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University students are warned over possible legal action for criticising lecturers on two websites.
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By HELEN BRUCE  FALSE bravado mixes with genuine fear on the Bebo network site, as exam takers swap their victories and disasters on line.
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Mike Tomlinson, author of plans to revamp England's exams, says GSCEs ignore basic writing and maths skills.
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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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Tycho:  I can really do without a lot of the corporate sniping that happens in this industry.  Plus, as a licensed demagogue, they're horning in on my territory when they say ridiculous things or make baseless verbal assaults!  I mean, I have mouths to feed.  Seriously, I have more than one mouth.
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Media & professional: A senior executive at InterContinental has resigned after misleading the company over his academic qualifications. By Graeme Wearden.
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President Bush's plan to expand standardized testing in high schools is facing a fight from some of the same leaders in Congress who pushed through his first-term school agenda.
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Off-shoring continues to take its toll This month has seen the UK's aspiring Prime Minister recycling his views in his Budget Report on the requirements and funding for enhancing the training opportunities and skills to compete globally as a prelude to announcing greater investment in higher education. Some people and organisations, âspeaking on behalf of the UK IT Industryâ, have hitched themselves to this bandwagon in the anticipation that some of the UK Government's proposed increase in its skills and education funding will find its way to the IT industry both in funding terms and in delivering more highly trained and motivated IT professionals.â¦
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Universities Secretary, John Denham, says students should be helped to stand up to extremist "intimidation".