Entrance to UCAS The organisation which is responsible for managing more than 2 million applications to higher education courses in the UK. (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service). (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Statistics released by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) have shown that the number of applications to study at university has fallen for the [...]
English: Nordic walking on a treadmill in a health club in Nürnberg (Photo credit: Wikipedia) January traditionally sees a huge spike of interest in exercise equipment and manufactures such as Spirit, Confidence, Nordic amongst many others are well stocked up for the surge with outlets such as Amazon UK at hand to take orders. See [...]
UK- Schools are wasting up to £450 million every year on buying useless technology which is rarely or never used. This is the conclusion from the report by education charity NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) which said money was being spent on gadgets without assessing whether it was of any educational [...]
Employment Exhibition (Photo credit: Modern_Language_Center) The British Council have launched a new assessment tool allowing businesses to test the English language skills of their staff. The new tools launched last month, known as Aptis and developed by the Language Test Development Group, allows employers to test their employee’s ability to speak, listen, read and write. It is designed to [...]
Students taking a test at University (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A new scheme run by Universities UK aims to stop the current fixation on degree classifications and offer an assessment of students performance throughout their entire course. The Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR) will involve universities and higher education institutions keeping a six page document for [...]
