Why is snow so challenging to forecast in the UK?
I thought I’d take a little time to journey through and explain the variety of factors than can determine whether or not snow falls, which will hopefully show how complicated it can be to forecast.
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Forget the 11-plus or the A-level – Chinese school leavers have “Gaokao fever” as they sit the country’s notorious two-day exams.
Ten years ago today, London witnessed a huge demonstration against the imminent invasion of Iraq. Channel 4 News speaks to four people who attended the protest.
As hazardous weather conditions cause travel chaos across the UK, Channel 4 News’ weather presenter Liam Dutton warns that the big freeze could last another week.
Flights cancelled, schools closed and roads closed: parts of the UK come to a standstill after snowfall of up to 30cm and a red alert warning in Wales, where power cuts are affecting 10,000 people.
I thought I’d take a little time to journey through and explain the variety of factors than can determine whether or not snow falls, which will hopefully show how complicated it can be to forecast.
The planet’s polar ice sheets are melting three times faster than they were in the the 1990s, a 20-year study of satellite records says.
A scheme to lure high school graduates from the “X-Box generation” into careers as code-breakers in the intelligence services is launched by Foreign Secretary William Hague.
English universities should give guaranteed interviews and lower A-level offers to poorer pupils, according to the government’s social mobility tsar.
The Education Secretary Michael Gove is planning to ditch GCSE exams, almost a quarter of a century after they were introduced, amid criticism over falling standards.
Overall unemployment falls in the last three months, but the number of young people out of work rises to 1.02 million. One 20-year-old tells Channel 4 News that job centres need to do more to help.
Ofqual admits raising concerns with exam boards, after leaked letters show that the exam regulator questioned an exam board’s GCSE English results and ultimately overruled the grades it awarded.
The exam watchdog Ofqual promises to look again at GCSE gradings amid claims that thousands of pupils have been unfairly given a D grade in English instead of a C.
Anger over exam marks as grade boundaries are changed, causing accusations of disadvantaging this year’s students.
Concerned teachers suggest that GCSE English exams were marked too harshly this year after schools reported an unprecedented number of fails among their pupils.
Exam boards advised to limit the number of A grades to guard against accusations that exams are getting easier, but experts tell Channel 4 News the move may disadvantage hard-working pupils.