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Being a top student certainly has its advantages, including better chances for receiving an offer at their preferred courses and universities. Starting this autumn, universities will be free to admit as many students with A-level grades of ABB or higher as they wish. This will create an opportunity for teenagers with top A-level grades to [...]
The Office for Fair Access have made an agreement with 14 universities to increase the ratio of male to female enrollees as part of their requirement as institutions which charge not less than £6,000 per year on tuition fees. The move is in connection with the alarming decrease of the percentage of males among degree [...]
The changing times may have resulted in university degrees not being enough to secure a fulfilling career or a job itself for a graduate. However, the academe has coped with the shifting requirements of the job market thereby making formal education still the best means of achieving success in clenching the highly contested vacancy and, [...]
Unemployment in the UK has registered a drop of 82,000 to 2.51 million between August to October, according to official figures from the Office of National Statistics. It reflected the largest quarterly drop in unemployment statistics since 2001. Employment also rose 40,000 to 29.6 million, the highest figure registered since data began to be recorded [...]
A new independent league table ranking universities globally has placed the UK education system at sixth best in the developed world. The study called The Learning Curve was conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) for Pearson, the education firm. It aims to help policymakers, school leaders and academics tell which key factors will help [...]
Despite having tougher employment prospects, employment statistics for last year’s graduates still proved to be “much better than feared” as they do not show a significant difference from the year before despite being expected to fare worse in the midst of a weak economy and spending cuts. According to a Higher Education Careers Service Unit [...]
As the first week of university starts for many first-year university entrants, it is only fitting to let them know what to expect when they live away from the comforts of home for the first time and are suddenly thrust into the company of thousands of people about their age in an environment where they [...]
A survey of 800 schools by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) found that 87% had complaints about the GCSE English results, which saw a huge majority of secondary school students unable to get C grade passes due to last minute changes to the English GCSE grade boundaries. The strong reaction was due [...]
In the first year of tuition fees reaching an all-time high of £9,000, some students in the UK who have gained GCSE qualifications choose to take a job, training scheme or apprenticeship instead of continuing formal education at sixth-form or college and gaining A levels. However, a common complaint from managers involves taking extra time [...]
The 16th August marks A-level results day this year as approximately 300,000 sixth-formers all over the country finally determine whether their grades are good enough for admission to the university and course of their choice. Figures show that 26.6% of exams were awarded an A or A* this year, down from last year’s 27 per [...]
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