Rise in pupils caught with phones during exams…
Rising numbers of penalties are being handed out to school staff and students for exam malpractice, official figures show.
Ofqual data also showed a rise in the number of pupils taking mobile phones into tests.
New statistics reveal a 149 per cent hike in penalties issued to teachers and other workers, while the numbers for pupils rose by 25 per cent.
Malpractice covers anything that could “undermine the integrity of an exam”, according to regulator Ofqual.
Source : Independent
Four strategies for remembering everything you learn
Parents and educators are pretty good at imparting the first kind of knowledge,” shares psych writer Annie Murphy Paul. “We’re comfortable talking about concrete information: names, dates, numbers, facts.
But the guidance we offer on the act of learning itself – the ‘meta-cognitive’ aspects of learning – is more hit-or-miss, and it shows.
If you’re going to learn anything, you need two kinds of prior knowledge:
- knowledge about the subject at hand, like math, history, or programming
- knowledge about how learning actually works
Source : Independent
International students bring economic benefits to the UK!
International students are worth £20bn to the UK economy, says a report from the Higher Education Policy Institute.
The analysis says on top of tuition fees, their spending has become a major factor in supporting local economies.
London alone gains £4.6bn – with Sheffield the biggest beneficiary in proportion to its economy.
The think tank’s director, Nick Hillman, says the figures support calls to remove students from immigration targets.
There are about 230,000 students arriving each year for university courses in the UK – most of them postgraduates, with China the most common country of origin.
“Fewer international students would mean a lot fewer jobs in all areas of the UK, because international students spend money in their universities, in their local economies,” he says.
“It is literally the sandwich shops, the bike shops, the taxi firms; it is the night clubs, it’s the bookshops.
“Without international students, some of the local companies might go bust. Some of the local resident population would lose their jobs,” says Mr Hillman.
The Higher Education Policy Institute, which carried out the study with education company Kaplan, argues that the UK should have a more positive approach to students from overseas – and separate them from the wider debate about immigration.
Source : BBCeducation