Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Staff organised "teach-outs" off campus at "every university with a substantial picket line"; [164] these featured education sessions which tended to be left-wing or critical of recent changes in UK higher education, [62] [165] [166] [167] apparently led by the University of Leeds, whose UCU branch had tested the model during a local dispute in ...
In December 2021, the Department for Education asked retired teachers to return to teaching in England from January. This was in anticipation of an increase in staff absence due to the Omicron Covid variant. [47] [48] The Department of Education in Northern Ireland made similar requests to recently retired teachers. [49]
Education is compulsory until 18, thus post-16 education can take a number of forms, and may be academic or vocational. This can involve continued schooling, known as sixth form, leading to A-levels or alternative Level 3 qualifications. It can also include work-based apprenticeships, traineeships and volunteering.
UK’s new building will be over 500,000 square feet and home to programs in four health colleges: medicine, public health, health sciences and nursing.
Education in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter, with each of the countries of the United Kingdom having separate systems under separate governments. The UK Government is responsible for England, whilst the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive are responsible for Scotland, [6] Wales [7] and Northern Ireland, respectively.
Under New Labour, the role was known as Minister of State for Higher Education and Minister of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills. Under the Cameron–Clegg coalition and May ministries , the role became known as Minister of State for Universities, Science and Cities and Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and ...
Research by the UK's Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) in 2016 found that global rankings fundamentally measure research performance, with research-related measures accounting for over 85 percent of the weighting for both the Times Higher Education and QS rankings and 100 percent of the weighting for the ARWU ranking.
The first precursor to CASE, the Association for the Advancement of State Education, was founded in Cambridge in 1960 'following the increasing acceptance of middle-income parents that they could be beneficiaries of a comprehensive system', [1] and, by 1962, 26 similar local groups had united to form CASE. [2]