Hats off to students from state schools, who are more likely to outperform their privately educated peers from similar backgrounds, researchers from the London School of Economics found Students from state schools do better at university than those from similar backgrounds who were privately educated, a study revealed today. They are four percentage points more [...]
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Faith and fashion are not incompatible
Muslim schoolgirls dress a dummy at the Faith and Fashion workshop. Photograph: Mark Tillie In a first floor classroom in the Hackney campus of the London School of Fashion a small group of young schoolgirls are wrapping clothes on to tailor’s dummies. They are using conventional clothes in unconventional ways – turning ties into belts [...]
Science exam too easy, says regulator
Students must be given the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of scientific concepts. Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian Almost 500,000 pupils were told today that the science GCSE they took last summer was too easy. The exams regulator, Ofqual, said its investigation had revealed standards demanded by the exam were too low. In some [...]
