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Banks and hedge funds still stacked with private school elite
Here's a sign you wouldn't see at Goldman Sachs.Paul WalterThe extent to which the banking industry is dominated by those who attended private schools has been revealed. A study found 60% of leaders in...
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Education equality gap failing immigrants and poor students
Quality education is still not for all. Chris Radburn/PA Wire/Press Association ImagesImmigrant students and those from poor backgrounds living in developed countries are being failed by the school...
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How teaching assistants can give a boost to struggling pupils
More maths anyone?David Jones/PA Archive/Press Association ImagesTeaching assistants can help children improve literacy and numeracy skills if they work in small groups with specific pupils known to...
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Radical reform of India's higher education sector will open the door for...
New opportunities beckon. parth joshiUniversities are being urged to seize the opportunity of expanding into India where reforms will radically change the country’s higher education sector in the next...
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More education and lower workload for nurses sees patients' lives saved
Intensive care needed.EPAHospitals where nurses are qualified to bachelor’s degree level and have lower patient-to-nurse ratios have lower mortality rates.In a cross-European study published in The...
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Drop in UK research spending leaves it trailing rest of the EU
The UK is investing less on research and development across both the public and private sectors and remains behind Europe on the proportion of its GDP spent on research, prompting leading academics to...
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Online learning pioneer slams ban on Iranian, Cuban, Sudanese students
The founder of free online learning platform edX, set up by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has spoken out against the US State department’s decision to block people in...
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Race and academia: diversity among UK university students and leaders
Fed up with silly questions.#ITooAmOxford, CC BYNew analysis of the ethnic diversity of both university students and the academics in charge of their education has revealed wide disparities in ethnic...
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Fees drive rise in UK students who want to study abroad
Would you want to study under the bright lights of the Big Apple?iwillbehomesoon, CC BY-NC-SAA growing number of UK students are considering going abroad to study with a majority of them motivated in...
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Teachers remain divided on performance-related pay
A new survey has found teachers remain divided over proposals to link their pay increases to the performance of pupils in their class. A small majority – 53% of 1,163 primary and secondary school...
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Student loans should be for life, say universities
Students should be given a lifetime loan allocation that they can use for different undergraduate and postgraduate courses, according to new proposals put forward by a group of universities. The...
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Men earn £2,000 more than women within six months of graduating
Next step the world of work... but how much are the guys getting?Nottingham Trent University, CC BY-NC-NDThe gender pay gap between women and men graduates has long been an indicator of pay disparities...
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Universities may seek more EU students once controls lifted
More to come?Univeristy of Essex., CC BYPlans to remove controls on the number of students in England from autumn 2015 could see more universities turning to recruit students from the European Union,...
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Oxbridge and London retain grip on university research prowess
The dominance of a “golden triangle” of universities in the latest research assessment exercise has renewed concerns that other universities may get less government research funding in future. The...
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Only one in ten education reforms analysed for their impact: OECD
Education reforms in the spotlight. Students in class via Monkey Business Images/ShutterstockOnly a tenth of education reforms carried out around the world since 2008 have been analysed by governments...
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