When I heard a friend of mine was about to buy her 7 year old daughter a mobile phone I was horrified, what possible need could a 7 year old have for a mobile phone? Her daughter has already offered to do household chores in exchange for credit to use on ringtones and texting.
The reason [...]
Recently a friend of mine decided to quit her job as an extremely well paid PA with a jet setter life-style to train as a nursery nurse, at the time she announced it to myself and a few other friends we were all gobsmacked, the decision she said was based on the huge amount of [...]
Universities despite rising fees and continuing to complain about no money or assets are wrongfully claiming millions from the tax payer. Documents have recently been leaked from the government detailing the situation. Where one university claim nearly thirty seven million pounds from students dropping out of courses, said university has been ordered to pay [...]
Top universities are shunning potential candidates from poorer backgrounds. This news comes from the agency responsible for helping potential students access to widened higher education. It seems only twenty per cent of students make it through where as 40% are at a huge disadvantage to get into very selective universities. Tuition fees seem to be [...]
Well teachers are getting spending cuts therefore students are seeing a big rise in fees. Students will be facing a rise of up to a thousand pounds in tuition fees. This means that universities will be charging the full cost of a degree to students. Estimated average fees could nearly be seven thousand pounds for [...]
US President Barack Obama has recently bitched at the entertainment and gadget industry for killing education in a number of ways. An education is key to the success of an individual and the people surrounding and the world they live in. Barack Obama believes that the current iPod generation is killing education around the world [...]
We hear to too often now where teachers are continuing strike over pay and other issues but teachers in Scotland are prepared to strike over education budget cuts. Are they wrong to do this? Absolutely not education is paramount to everyone’s lives and cutting spending in such an area can have disastrous effects. This would [...]
Thousands of children will have to settle for second or even worse third choice primary schools due to an influx of applications according to a survey made across the different councils in the UK. Even at this point a number of children have no places at all for September. The increase is being blamed [...]
Eight leading British universities have been accused of pressuring student to perform well to attempt to boost their positions in the university league tables. The universities in question are:
• Anglis Ruskin
• Swansea
• Leicester
• Derby
• Portsmouth
• Sunderland
• Kingston
• London Metro
Complaints varied from heads of departments telling students that high scores will incease the importance of their degree. Staff blatantly filled in surveys on [...]
Brain training has taken the world by storm with so many different ways and methods of performing brain training people are hooked on the idea of keeping their minds active. Brain training is in the form of books, music, tv games, console games and even on mobile devices for those people on the move. Recent [...]
