Iflove Educational News and Academic Indicators This Week: Teaching and Education Resources

Schools news

Elite exam to rival A-levels approved
Critics fear disproportionate take-up by private schools Special report: A-levels

Teachers struggling to survive on income, says report
Increasing numbers of teachers struggling to cope with rising mortgage payments and living costs, according to counselling service

Council uses criminal law to spy on school place applicants
Poole Council admits using laws designed to track serious criminals to spy on a family for nearly three weeks
Blog: Would you lie to get your child into a school?

Higher education news

Cambridge devises quiz to attract students
· Questions designed to dispel admission myths
· Bursaries scheme to have wider participation

Higher education income tops £21bn
Bulk of income comes from tuition fees, grants and contracts

India reserves half of university places for lower castes
India’s supreme court gives go ahead for almost 50% of places at publicly funded universities to be for lower-caste and other disadvantaged people - student housing

Further education news

Don’t blame the equipment
Can lessons be learned about training needs from the fiasco of Terminal 5’s opening?
More further education news
Comment and analysis

 ‘Space flight can be as luminous as any novel’
Why we are still having the old arts v science debate? There is only one culture, and you need an open mind to absorb as much as you can of it, argues Tim Radford

Hey buddy, weren’t you supposed to be on my side?
In the latest in a series of academic live debates, Prof Adrian Monck went head to head with AC Grayling over the question, ‘Is the Renaissance scholar dead?’. Kevin Fong bore witness
The speakers’ arguments

It’s not ‘lefty’ to insist entry to schools should be fair
Jonathan Freedland: Critics of the admissions inquiry were largely the anxious affluent but, for those with a legitimate concern, a solution exists
Student news

Complaints by university students show 25% increase
Lawyers partly to blame for rise, and most cases concern exam result challenges

Young composers’ competition 2008

New talent, new scores
Sharpen your pencils and get ready for the 10th Young Composers’ Competition. Peter Kingston reports
How to enter
Special report: Arts in school
E-learning

A tiny revolution
It’s smaller then a textbook and cheaper than many software packages. George Cole visits two schools using the first in a new breed of mini laptops
Tefl

UAE college teacher wins innovation award for English course
A ‘ground breaking’ vocabulary course for female students in Dubai named the winner of the new international category of this year’s British Council English language teaching innovation awards
University guide 2008

University league tables 2008
Use our unique rankings system to search for a university course by subject or institution
Universities ranked: Who comes top?
University tables 2008: Methodology
What the tables mean
Profiles: From architecture to veterinary science
Search our institution profiles

The Guardian University Guide 2008
University funding 2008-09

Scotland: Summary of 2008-09 grant tables
Settlements for universities in Scotland, in alphabetical order

England: Hefce funding 2008-09
Find out what each university will receive in funding for this year, the winners, and losers
Table: Who got the most
Table: Who got the least
RAE 2008: The race for funding

League table predicts RAE frontrunners
Universities approach next hurdle for the 2008 research assessment exercise - the deadline for submissions
The science of funding
Explainer: What is the RAE?
Eric Thomas: Metrics deserve a measured response
Jonathan Adams: Peer review unmatched by metrics
Table: Who came top?
Have your say on the blog
University teaching

University teaching tables
Search for study and teaching time by subject and institution
University students in England have it easy
Time bomb
See the figures from 2006
Special report: University teaching
National Student Survey 2007

Tables of results
Find out which students were the most satisfied with their university and course
Students get OU satisfaction
Students’ biggest concern is feedback

School league tables

GCSE and A-level results tables 2007
Results by region for all schools and colleges in England
How to read the tables

How did your school do?
View our tables for primary and secondary school results, including key stages 1 and 2 and GCSEs and A-level

Cartoon

Lines
By Ros Asquith
Audio

Striking a chord
Scientists in Birmingham have come up with a sound idea: using music to help people understand difficult concepts 

Student news podcast
Regular news from around campus
Video podcasts

Video podcasts with Teachers TV
New year, new videos to watch
Studying in the UK

How much will your degree cost?
Visit EducationGuardian.co.uk’s unique tables listing the fees charged for undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses for home and international students at all UK universities
Foreign students charged inflated tuition fees
Building a full picture
More international student news
Jobs

Job search
Look for your ideal education job 

Upload your CV and profile. Create your own personal profile so you don’t miss out on the job offers
University performance indicators

Performance indicator results
How are universities performing when it comes to widening access and using research funding? View our tables to find out

University funding grants 2007-08

University funding tables
Full funding allocations for 2007-08 for England, Scotland and Wales
Special report: University funding

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