Ucas criticised over fraud screening of black applicants
The university admissions service Ucas is under pressure after an investigation revealed that more than half of all applications flagged for possible fraud are from black students.
Ucas researchers found that over a five-year period 52% of applications investigated for potential fraudulent activity were from black candidates, even though they only make up 9% of total applications.
In contrast, over the same period – between 2013 and 2017 – just 19% of all suspicious applications were from white students, even though they make up 73% of all applications. Asian students made up 11% of applicants and 16% of those flagged.
Full Article: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/may/31/ucas-criticised-over-screening-of-black-applicants
Teaching children without play was soul-destroying
To a child, play is serious work and the motivation to learn is intrinsic
One year, during Sats preparation, I watched as a number of my year 2 students cried because the paper was too difficult. I told them not to worry and to just try their best, but inside I felt dreadful. I knew that no matter how hard they cried, I would force them to continue. I’ve been a teacher for five years and I love working with children. But I’ve realised I don’t want to teach them any more.
400 million girls will be excluded from employment by 2030 – UN
United Nations Special Envoy, Gordon Brown, has warned that an impending global education crisis with wide and persistent divide could exclude 400 million girls from employment by 2030.
He made this known in a statement by the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity, Education Commission, where youth activists worldwide recently met in New York with the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to discuss education funding.
Brown said, “The human faces behind these statistics are the most heartbreaking. In Nigeria, girls living in poverty bear the greatest burden. Many of them drop out of school and get married early. They are left without skills for the modern economy and won’t have much hope for the future.”
Full article : http://punchng.com/400m-girls-will-be-excluded-from-employment-by-2030-un-warns/