Women out perform men at Uni
It’s been a long coming but recent research has found that women are now doing considerably better than their male counterparts at university are.
The study compiled by the Higher Education Policy Institute shows that places at the top universities are likely to go to women, who are going on to get better grades too.
This [...]
Choosing a college, what to look for
When it gets to that time when the school pupil becomes a college student there are many questions that need to be asked, and it is not necessarily to do with the students chosen subject.
There are many things that the student and their families should be taking into account; these can range from distance from [...]
The cost of going to University
Currently the tuition fees for going to university are £3,125 per year, these are set to rise next year to £3,225 per year. But if universities have it their way fees could rise to as much as £7,000 per year, in fact there are claims that a fee or £5,000 per year would not put [...]
December 19, 2008University readying to welcome the Google generation
Universities and colleges are getting ready to receive the new wave of digital students, these are the first students to go on to further education who have grown up in the digital age, you may not think that this would have any effect on their further education, but it does.
The problem lies with the informal [...]
Teacher takes Linux CD because of piracy
Sometimes it is amazing when you think that teachers hold the future of our children in their hands and yet they can be so blind about what is realistic in the world.
Take one case, where a child using a laptop in class, impressing his friends of his skills. If any of the kids are interested, [...]
Students still flocking to the UK
Despite the credit crunch and the cost of living in the UK, there is still a booming market in students coming to the UK for their university education from countries all around the world.
This is because a UK qualification carries a lot of weight when it is time to start work and of course the [...]
Student gets degree in two years
A teenager is about to graduate from the university of Texas, nothing strange about that, but in this there is.
Andrew Brisbin was just fourteen when he started at the North Central College and went onto the university just a year later, now aged just sixteen he is about to graduate with a bachelor’s degree [...]
Great reasons to go to college
It has to be one of the biggest decisions that a teenager has to make, to go college or not.
There are plenty of reasons or excuses for not going, but what about the reasons for going to college, there are just as many for as there are for not going, these can be:
Apart of growing [...]
The truth about teaching
Teachers are finding that although their training covered what they should be teaching it failed to inform them of the real world and how teaching in this real word is far removed from the world of teaching that they were taught at college.
Here are some of the finer points of teaching in this real world:
Classroom [...]
Is education the world currency?
We all know of the famous education dropouts who went on to become either very famous, rich or in some cases both, but what about those people who did not have the “Big Idea” and had to carry on to finish their studies.
These students put in time and money to complete their education and yet [...]
Weighing up the cost of college
Normally you would have thought that the best and at the same time most expensive colleges would enable the student upon qualification would then be able to get themselves a much better job than those students who went to a different college.
However, according to research this is not necessarily the case, because despite the [...]
University is not for everyone
Is there a status of going to university or are there students and families of students who are making the fact that their children have gone or are going to university making this into a status symbol?
This question arises every now and then where people it is where the children of parents are pushed into [...]
Keira Knightly regrets not going to university
It makes no difference who you are or what you have, not going to university when you have the chance could be one of the biggest regrets that you ever had.
One such famous and successful person who regrets not going to university when she had the chance is the actress Keira Knightly and despite being [...]
Learning the basics
There are many things that parents should teach their children, yet there are some life skills, which parents should pass on too, but these are rarely ever handed down from father to son. However, imagine a world where this actually happened.
It may seem a strange subject, but there are some things that if taught to [...]
The university top ten
Once again, the top universities in the world are in the UK and the US according to research from the Times Higher Education QS. This is good news for the western universities, as this will bring in some valued income from foreign students.
Top Ten Universities:
Harvard
Yale
Cambridge
Oxford
California Instit. of Technology
Imperial College London
University College London
University of Chicago
Massachusetts Instit. [...]
Students get cut price Microsoft Office
Microsoft have always been committed to education and this is going to be no exception as they have introduced the company’s Ultimate Steal Program which is where enrolled students are able to get their hands on a brand new copy of Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 at a low price.
This deal is going to be available [...]
Boys prefer to be taught by men
In a recent study of over a thousand men, nearly half of them forty eight per cent said that their male primary school teachers had a long lasted effect on their school life and beyond. The research had been carried out by ICM, for the Training and Development Agency, who are largely responsible for the [...]
September 18, 2008Oxford standards dropping, due to working class students
It seems no matter what the government says, the class war is far from over in fact in places like Oxford it is turning into all out war.
Universities have been forced to take students from all backgrounds, this have meant the top of the range universities like those of Oxford and Cambridge have had to [...]
Changes for foreign students
The UK has always been an attractive option for foreign student to come over and earn a degree or study for some other qualification. However, in recent years the system that operated has been abused by some organisations that used it simply to allow foreigners to enter the country and then disappear.
In order [...]
Distance learning can be ok
Once you have started work, there always comes a time when you are going to sit back and think why didn’t I go on to university? However, what makes it worse is that now you are working and paying your way, in order to go back to college is going to mean a complete lifestyle [...]