University axing unconditional offers demonstrates need for system overhaul
St Mary’s University in London will no longer offer unconditional university places saying students with a guaranteed place didn’t achieve the grades they were predicted.…
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From small beginnings come great things…
The thorny question of education professionalism is once again raising its battered head above the parapet. In the Further, Adult, Community and Skills sector a…
Concern over reoffending as Lewisham College ditches Belmarsh prison education
Lewisham College is to abandon the prison education and training courses which it operates at Belmarsh and Brixton prisons. The college took over the three…
Pressure for change in policy “gathering steam” according to union
The University and College Union (UCU) launched a massive campaign yesterday to lobby government in a bid to reverse the decision on ESOL funding. Unions,…