Better Use For Foreign Aid

Make university education for roreign students needs blind so that foreign students with the grades but not the means to get into university can go.
Universities can set up overseas campuses, as many have already done, and the open university can expand worldwide.
This is a far better use of money than giving it to ‘support govt spending’ in wasteful African governments.
Who knows, the graduates of those universities might decide that investment in the school system is worth making, and start their countries on paying their own way.

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Is It Cheating?

If you tattoo your entire body with specimen exam answers, data sheets, equations, useful pictures and topic summaries?
Some crazy student – either themselves, or forced to do it by their crazier parents – will spend a week in the tattoo parlour to find out.

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Pay to be Slimmer With Whiter Teeth on Graduation Photographs

So now you can pay to be digitally enhanced on your graduation photograph. You can be slimmer, prettier, have whiter teeth, grey hair and wrinkles eliminated.
It will not be long before, like the soviet leaders of old, the dead can be made to live again, and walk and talk, with one easy software tweak.

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Tory Donor to Head Ofsted?

Why not?
Apparently David Ross, Tory party donor, who founded carphone warehouse, is a contender to become the new head of Ofsted.
If appointments can be bought and sold like in any bongo bongo dictatorship,  it could be the biggest source of cash for party coffers since David Lloyd George auctioned off memberships of the Lords.

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Please make formulae consistent on gcse/igcse maths exam paper

ie please use the formula Area=1/2ab sin C to mean you can label the triangle in the same way as for the cosine rule a^2 =b^2 +c^2 -2bc con A.

A lot of people are confused because they do real;ise they have to relabel the triangle.

I just sent this email to aqa.

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You’re All a Bunch of Wimps!

Teachers have voted to strike this June but promise not to cause any real disruption by stopping exams taking place.
Is this a real dumb use of a strike? What a bunch of wimps, that vote to strike but to minimize disruption.  Pity Bob Crowe is dead. He would have made a bloody good leader of the teachers union and there would have been none of this no disruption crap.

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Muslim Schools

In the UK every religion is able to have its own schools. There are Jewish s hooks, church of England schools, Muslim schools and others, but it seems to me that Muslim schools come in for special attention, that stops them effectively being Muslim schools and doing things that other schools are free to do.
Apparently the segregation of boys and girls is considered extremist – more extremist than segregation into completely different schools that happens in some Christian schools.
Extremist too to point out to them how stupid and incompetent Arab governments are and encourage them to liberate their fellow Muslims.
If they were to go and fight for something, at least they would be fighting for something they believe in, unlike the British army in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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What is the point of a new gcse grade

Nine at all!
Apparently the top 20000 gcse students are to be awarded a super duper high new grade. No doubt this is to distinguish between those who get 98% and those who get 100%.
The idea of making exams harder probably never occurred to them. Grade F for the education secretary.

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UCAS’S STUPID POLICY!

Any student applying to a UK university through ucas applies to five universities and is either accepted or rejected conditionally by each one individually. They then have to choose from the universities that made them conditional offers who to accept BUT CAN ONLY ACCEPT UP TO TWO! Suppose then that they want to go to a top university like Imperial, York or UCL. Of course they will accept those offers. The only other they can accept is their insurance offer. If three of the other four universities are on a par with York and the other is bognor, they may feel forced to accept the offer from bognor to guarantee being able go to university at all. Suppose they fail to get into York by one grade. They made then end up in one of the worst universities in the country with A*A*A.
WHAT A WASTE!
It couldn’t happen to a member of the royal family could it – none of whom was ever turned away from any university no matter how awful their grades!

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That’s Statistics!

Education spending goes up by hundreds of millions but spending on books falls in real terms by 4%. It seems that magic increase has been swallowed by wages and higher prices of various things.
How is it then that all the sixth form students I know have ipads given them by their schools? Maybe the education budget is the start of a new literary genre – statistical fiction!

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