China Media Project translates an analysis of China’s educated youth by Professor and Director of the Rural Development Institute’s Social Issues Research Center at the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences (CASS): China’s so-called “educated…
Last week was the deadline for secondary school applications. Julia Voss bemoans a confusing, frustrating and corporate process that has been reduced to a timeshare sales pitchForty years ago, I left my primary school and went, along with all my friends, to our local secondary school. That was the extent of my “transition process” in [...]
We’re in the midst of a Golden Age of science on TV, but women are mostly absent. Girls are crying out for a female scientific role model, and Alom Shaha wants your suggestionsI’m a science teacher at Camden School for Girls. The school understands that same-sex role models are especially important for young women and [...]
As an American university offers a module in Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame, we wonder what might be on the syllabus …It would certainly make for a memorable episode of The Apprentice. Lord Sugar turns his face, strangely like that of a bored dachshund, towards some incompetent besuited buffoon, raises an accusatory finger [...]
Passing a weak electrical current through the brain improves people’s ability to learn new maths, a study suggestsSchoolchildren who struggle to grasp mathematics could benefit from having their brains zapped with electricity, scientists say.A study of university students found that gentle electrical stimulation to the rear of the brain boosted their ability to learn and [...]
Tuition fees and property prices mean middle-class parents will find it harder and harder to secure their children’s future statusOuch. The cut in child benefit felt tough – nearly £2,000 a year – but the rise in university tuition fees announced yesterday felt very grim. With two children in their teens and another heading that [...]
The New York Times profiles a young African-American Brooklynite who moved to China and now runs a local school after the owner suddenly and without explanation closed up shop: The small-business landscape in China is littered with stories of customers…
But universities will be able to charge the £9,000 top rate only if they agree to fund more undergraduates from poorer familiesElite universities welcomed the government’s plans today to raise tuition fees to £9,000, almost three times the current level, if colleges agree to increase scholarships intended to ensure that the poorest are not priced [...]
Tuition fees will rise to between £6,000 and £9,000 from 2012, if parliament approves proposalStudents could pay up to £9,000 a year in tuition fees in changes that could be introduced as soon as 2012, ministers said today.The universities minister, David Willetts, has announced proposals to raise the “basic threshold” for tuition fees to £6,000, [...]
MIKE Rann is under growing pressure to explain connections with an area of Italy to which he has committed millions of taxpayer dollars.
Deputy PM asks Liberal Democrat MPs to support near tripling of university tuition fees despite pre-election pledgeNick Clegg will today battle to head off a revolt within the Liberal Democrats as the government announces that a cap on university tuition fees in England will be set at a maximum of £9,000 a year.While rejecting the [...]
The future of the rugby scrum is being considered by research into the long-term effects on the bodyShould scrums be banned in schools?The rugby scrum, home to the cauliflower ear, is also the scene of tremendous, sometimes dangerous, forces when two packs collide, intent on winning the ball at all costs. The impact, and how [...]
DENISE Bradley, chairwoman of the new national regulator, has hit out at the low standard of state regulatory bodies.
THE marketing of tertiary education to international students by Austrade has had a few "teething issues" in the midst of the growing crisis in the $18.6bn industry.
THE federal government’s extensive research quality assessment initiative will be run again in 2012 with an unchanged methodology, despite sector criticism.