Rosemary Bennett
The Times of London
United Kingdom
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All smiles for GCSE pupils but Btec students must wait until next week
A week is a long time in education. Last Thursday there were scenes of distress and panic as teenagers who were expecting mediocre, good or excellent A-level grades were horrified to see what the → Read More
Can my child appeal against their A-level results and how can I help?
My child has done poorly and has no university place. How can I help?First work out whether you can appeal. The grounds are limited to bias or discrimination if you want to challenge the school’s → Read More
Coronavirus: Universities battle to balance the books
John Bowron has been looking forward to going to university for years.The 18-year-old from South London applied to read geology this September at Edinburgh, Durham and Bristol, among others. Now he is → Read More
Private schools warned over ‘collusion to fix fees’ by watchdog
The competition watchdog has warned private schools over collusion to fix their fees during the coronavirus crisis.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it has “become aware that → Read More
What is happening with exams this year?
What is happening with A levels and GCSEs this year?All examinations are cancelled and instead exam boards will award grades using teachers’ judgment on what their pupils would probably have achieved → Read More
Coronavirus: Teachers will grade own pupils for GCSE and A level
Teachers will grade their own pupils for A level and GCSE this year, the government has said.Exam boards will combine teachers’ judgment with other data to calculate a final grade, with results ready → Read More
Backlash as students give International Women’s Day a trans rebrand
A university students’ union is under fire for rebranding International Women’s Day to include trans women.Leicester students’ renaming of the celebration as International Womxn’s Day follows their → Read More
Grammar schools plead in vain for money to expand
Three quarters of grammar schools have been turned down for government funding when trying to expand.Only six of the 25 grammars were successful, with £14.3 million of the £50 million available for → Read More
University students silenced on sex assault and bullying claims by gagging orders
Universities have been accused of an abuse of power by using gagging orders to stop students going public about being victims of sexual assaults and bullying.Chris Skidmore, the universities minister, said the Department for Education would investigate after it emerged that a third of universities h → Read More
Gavin Williamson gives universities final warning on free speech
The education secretary has given universities a final warning to guard free speech or face legislation.In an article for The Times, Gavin Williamson says that universities must make clear that → Read More
Grammar schools fail the top university test
Grammar schools do nothing to boost the chances of their pupils getting into a top university, research suggests.However, private schools do bring some advantage, increasing the chances of youngsters taking a degree at an elite Russell Group institution.The findings come in a series of essays on gra → Read More
More primary schools are investigated over dubious SAT results
The number of investigations into SATs maladministration jumped by 32 per cent in 2018, figures show.The Standards and Testing Agency, which presides over tests at age 7 and 11, investigated 793 cases across both stages, up from 599 in 2017 and 524 in 2016.The increase was mainly driven by a sharp r → Read More
Fake apprentices exploit £3bn levy
Half the apprenticeships created by the multi-million pound levy on big companies are fake, a report claims.A survey by the education and skills think tank EDSK found that hundreds of thousands of apprenticeships were either low-skilled jobs masquerading as training, such as shop work, or rebadged s → Read More
Unconditional offers blamed for increase in students dropping out of university
Two thirds of universities have recorded a rise in student dropouts over the past five years, a study has found.The proportion of young people at some universities leaving after a year has increased by more than five percentage points, official data shows.Critics attribute the rising number of dropo → Read More
Britain’s teachers are youngest in developed world, says OECD
Britain’s teachers are among the youngest in the developed world, according to an international study.Almost one in three primary teachers (31 per cent) are aged 30 or younger, compared with 13 per cent in other similar economies, according to the OECD. The average age of the teaching workforce in → Read More
Heads warn parents to look out for signs of vaping among 11-year-olds
Schools have started the new term with a warning to parents about the scourge of teenage vaping. Smoking on school premises has been virtually eradicated, helped by it being so easy to detect and... → Read More
A-level maths pupils need only 14% to pass this year
Pupils have passed A-level maths this year by getting 14 per cent of the questions right, leaked figures show. Grade boundaries for the Edexcel exam, which emerged a day before A-level results go... → Read More
The benefits of university open days (they’re for parents too)
Should parents accompany their children on university open days? Let me put that another way. Would you send your teenager on a £50,000 shopping spree unaccompanied? The answer is undoubtedly “no”. → Read More
Labour would end university offers before results day
Students would apply to university only after receiving their A-level results under Labour proposals. The party said that it would abolish the system of predicted A-level grades determining... → Read More
Poor pupils fall behind better-off classmates at GCSE level
Poor pupils are trailing 18 months behind their classmates at GCSE level after the attainment gap widened for the first time this decade, researchers have found. Disadvantaged pupils are now about a week further behind their peers than a year ago. Government critics blamed financial pressure on sch → Read More