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The Russell Group which represents 24 leading universities has published a guide called Informed Choices which lists subjects which are those most commonly required for entry to our leading universities. These are:
- Maths and further maths
- Physics
- Biology
- Chemistry
- History
- Geography
- Modern and classical languages
- English Literature
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28 April 2014
Google has hired the man who showed how to make computers learn much like the human brain.
His name is Geoffrey Hinton, and on Tuesday, Google said that it had hired him along with two of his University of Toronto graduate students ? Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever. Their job: to help Google make sense of the growing mountains of data it is indexing and to improve products that already use machine learning ? products such as Android voice search.
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28 April 2014
The International Baccalaureate is gaining such respect that some universities have lowered their entry requirements for IB students.
The IB is still a minority path in Britain, but for its supporters it offers the complete education. One of the IB's biggest attractions is that it requires breadth of study. A-level students will typically take three or four subjects, while for the IB diploma they take six, three at standard level and three at higher.
But it is more than just two or three extras. At IB, students take a range of subjects including maths, English, a science, a foreign language and a humanities subject.
Source: Daily Telegraph
28 April 2014
From 26 May 2011, websites must obtain the informed consent of visitors before cookies are installed. The only exception are cookies that are 'strictly necessary' for a service requested by the user
27 April 2014
Facebook can remove your page without warning, explanation or recourse. This happened to SiteSell, but they got their page pack and recorded how they did it.
27 April 2014
Employers need to train and performance manage older workers better or risk falling foul of the law when Default Retirement Age is phased out, according to a CIPD survey.
As the Pensions Bill makes its way through The Commons, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has released a new survey demonstrating that older workers are often neglected when it comes to training and performance management. It highlights the need for employers to ensure they are managing the performance of all employees effectively, particularly before the final phase out of the Default Retirement Age (DRA).
A survey of 2000 employees has found that older workers are also much less likely than younger workers to have received training, with 51 per cent of those aged over 65 saying they had received no training in the last three years, compared to 32% across all age groups.
From October, employers will no longer be able to require employees to retire at a certain age, except in certain limited circumstances, which will mean employers will need to ensure their performance management systems and practices focus as much on older workers as the rest of the workforce.
More from the CIPD
27 April 2014
Government figures show that the highest ever proportion of 16-18 year olds were participating in education or training at the end of 2010.
The provisional data showed:
- The proportion of 16-18 year olds in education and training was 84.4 per cent compared to 82.5 per cent at the end of 2009. The total number of 16-18 year olds in education and training increased by 1,600 to 1.64 million at the end of 2010.
- The proportion of 16-18 year olds not in education, employment or training (NEET) decreased from 9.4 per cent at the end of 2009 to 7.3 per cent at the end of 2010.
The data also show a record proportion of 16-17 year olds participating in education or work-based learning ? the age group that will be the focus of the Department?s policy to raise the participation age.
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27 April 2014
One in nine adults have no formal qualifications and there are huge local variations in levels of education within Britain?s adult population, reveals an analysis published by the University and College Union.
It shows a Britain divided by a wide educational gulf: in some areas, a third of 16 to 64 year-olds are without qualifications, while in others the proportion is as low as two per cent.
In the Glasgow North East constituency 35 per cent of adults have no qualifications, compared to only 1.9 per cent in Brent North.
The UCU analysis shows that in some southern constituencies it has become very unusual not to have qualifications - while in parts of the West Midlands it remains widespread.
There are more people without qualifications in Birmingham Hodge Hill than in Cambridge, Winchester, Wimbledon, Buckingham, Romsey, Leeds North West and four other constituencies put together.
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27 April 2014
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