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Why you shouldn’t believe a UK snow forecast more than three days ahead
Predicting snow in the UK is difficult and weather computer models rarely get it right more than a few days ahead. But why is this the case?
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Tens of thousands of students will now get the exam results they were hoping for after all – following today’s humiliating climbdown by the government over England’s A-level and GCSEs.
The percentage of students getting top grades in fee-paying institutions is up 5 points on last year.
The Education Secretary announced a ‘triple lock’ for pupils in England late last night.
English, Welsh and Northern Irish regulators will use a school’s past performance when deciding students’ grades.
Today the exam regulator in England said GCSE and A-Level grades would be awarded based on mock exam results, teacher assessments and coursework.
For some children it’s a cause for celebration, but for those ready to sit GCSE and A-level exams the plan to close all schools from tomorrow spells uncertainty and turmoil.
From 1st January 2021, a new immigration system based on qualifications and earnings will operate in the UK.
A jury has heard how teenage girl scout Jodie Chesney was caught up in a dispute between drug dealers and was an “entirely blameless” victim.
Tomorrow is A-level results day in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and Labour say they want to scrap the current university admissions system in England which offers places based on predicted exam grades, saying it penalises students from poorer families.
There were celebrations: there were commiserations – the sound of envelopes being torn open across England, Northern Ireland and Wales. So far, your standard A-Level results day scenes – but in a year when reforms put more focus on final exams – the results showed a slight increase in top grades, a slight fall in overall pass rates,…
A black applicant to Oxford has a better chance of getting an offer than the average student applying for the same course with the same predicted grades.
Predicting snow in the UK is difficult and weather computer models rarely get it right more than a few days ahead. But why is this the case?
David Lammy, a former Labour minister for higher education, has published data from Freedom of Information requests showing that very low numbers of black students are going to Oxford and Cambridge. That in itself isn’t news – both the elite universities already publish data on the ethnicity of their students. But the MP has published…
What are UK graduates up to three years after they finish they degrees?
White students are twice as likely to get into Oxbridge as black applicants. And what about the school you went to? FactCheck looks at which types of applicant are most successful at the UK’s most famous universities.