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• David Read

  
  International Edubloggers Directory — Authority: 125
  David Read, UK, Secondary, Further. Tertiary, Adult, English as a Second Language ESL teacher at University of Sheffield, UK. Have been an ESL teacher and trainer for over 16 years and worked in 10 countries across the globe. Mobile ESL Focuses on the use of mobile phones to help learning of English as a second ...
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• U3A | University of the Third Age takes off

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  More than 20,000 new students joined the University of the Third Age this year At the local church hall on a late autumn afternoon in Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, more than 100 wannabe-students are queueing to sign up to a new university. The atmosphere is chatty, tea is being brewed, and theres an air of excitement ...
  5 days ago

• Prison philosophy and the strange case of the clever parrot

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  There is talk of closing down the prison philosophy class. Can the power of the press save it? Tony cant get over the parrot. "Are you sure," he says, "about punishing this parrot?" Casey turns to him and says: "If you can hold an intelligent conversation with it, then sure, its a person like anybody else." "Its not ...
  5 days ago

• A million young people not earning or learning

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Number of school-leavers not in education, work or training tops a million for the first time, figures show The number of school-leavers not in education, work or training has topped a million, the highest total on record, government figures reveal today, prompting accusations that ministers are failing to help ...
  1 week ago

• Mandelson slashes adult education spending

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Courses for people with learning disabilities and evening classes for the elderly are being cut and funds redirected to reskill the unemployed Lord Mandelsons department has been accused of slashing spending on courses for people with learning disabilities and evening classes for the elderly, to fund re-training of ...
  1 week ago

• Crib sheet email 17.11.09

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Girly girls, distracting roommates and classroom shoot-em-ups To get Crib sheet as a weekly email, click here This weeks annual conference of the Girls School Association is stirring things up in cyberspace. The most-read story on the education site quotes its president, Jill Berry, saying that while clever ...
  1 week ago

• Could grammar schools have a new role?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  The former chief schools adjudicator suggests that grammar schools could be turned into sixth-form colleges, which look set to achieve the best results at A-level Students at the non-selective sixth-form college in Farnborough, Hampshire, achieved an average of 398 Ucas points last year – the equivalent of more ...
  1 week ago

• Meeting and greeting

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Central control of 16-18 funding is over and colleges must look to their local authorities for cash. Will the change improve education? He who pays the piper, calls the tune … its an adage well understood by colleges. Since 1991, when funding was taken away from local authorities, further education has been paid ...
  1 week ago

• Economics on the web

  
  IEA Blog — Authority: 125
  ●  Philip Booth argues in the FT that ethics alone will not stop financial crises   ●  Patrick Basham and John Luik explain why banning tobacco displays benefits the black market    ●  Art Carden asks whether drugs should be legal   ●  David Friedman examines corporate governance   ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mandelson announces 35,000 new apprenticeships

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Weak college courses and up to 30 education quangos will be culled to pay for skills training Lord Mandelson today announced plans to cull thousands of the worst college courses and up to 30 training quangos to pay for 35,000 new apprenticeships and create a new class of trained technicians. Schools, colleges and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hoods down, looking up

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  With gang tensions simmering inside, how can colleges keep all students safe? A lot of teenagers feel the need to carry some kind of weapon these days, says Naz Lawrence. It could be anything really: it doesnt have to be a knife, as long as its sharp. A pen perhaps, even an Allen key. "Most people carry things on ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Labour’s Skills Policy: R.I.P.

  
  EcoLogics — Authority: 118
  a badly misguided, if not corrupt policy will be replaced by a return to good ole Thatcherite slash—and—burnism.
  3 weeks ago

• Arts students see academics for just nine hours a week

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  by Anushka Asthana Students studying subjects such as languages, history and philosophy have access to less than nine hours a week "contact time" with lecturers or tutors, research reveals today. The study by the National Union of Students and HSBC shows huge differences in the student experience. Those doing ...
  3 weeks ago

• My Other Life, My Other Blog, My Other Egroup

  
  Journeys and Star Gazing — Authority: 93
  Hello Everyone When I’m not Stargazing and Journeying across the planet I have a job that pays my bills and gives a great sense of satisfaction. I work in a system which I believe is one of the world’s greatest mechanisms of ensuring social justice through education and training. The system I am referring to is ...
  3 weeks ago

• How £2 billion of the further education budget is wasted

  
  IEA Blog — Authority: 125
  England once had a system of education for adults that was highly diverse, locally responsive, and an avenue for social mobility. No longer. As I explain in a new monograph published by the IEA, our further and adult education has been laid waste by Soviet-style central planning.   At a conservative estimate, £2 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Crib sheet email 03.11.09

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  School, lies and videotape, plus tales of derring-do To receive Crib sheet as an email, click here This week we finally knew what many suspected for a long time: that thousands of families every year lie in order to get their children into their preferred school. A report from the chief schools adjudicator ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is college at 14 a step too soon?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Colleges would like to admit 14-year-olds on to full-time courses, but not everyone agrees that its a good idea St Helens College, Merseyside, has a new cohort of students. In September, for the first time, it allowed a handful of 16-year-olds to enrol on the colleges courses full-time. For Pat Bacon, principal of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Banff and Buchan College

  
  Prepare For College — Authority: 158
  Banff & Buchan College is a further education College located in the north east of Scotland attracting students from all over the world. Our main campus is in Fraserburgh but we have learning centres in Huntly, Macduff, Turriff, Ellon, Keith and Peterhead. We offer a range of courses including part time, evening, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Studying for a Career is big Business for online Education providers

  
  Web-Work At Home — Authority: 420
  An opportunity to profit from the “Further Education” market This is a very good niche to get into at the moment and has been for a while; it has all the elements of being a success if promoted the right way. The further education industry is a huge market worldwide as an example the North American Market in 2008 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Colleges feel the funding squeeze

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  A surge in demand for places has put a huge strain on FE colleges, whose budgets are suffering Rising unemployment and the governments promise of a place in college for every 16- to 17-year-old who wants one has created a surge in demand for places at further education colleges. And its squeezing resources harder ...
  4 weeks ago

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