Only 16% of predicted grades are accurate and the current system penalises disadvantaged students and those from minority backgrounds.
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Study shows how to help students achieve their full potential.
When children don't live with their fathers, educators often act as if the men don't exist, an expert on child development laments in an essay about why schools must do more to recognize dads.
Many of the new proposals would leave the wealthiest students and graduates better off.
Despite the headline cut in fees, under the Augar review, students would on average be paying more.
Chaplaincy is an integral part of campus life within many universities.
Play video games and learn a language – a researcher explains why it might be possible.
Conducting research and contributing to knowledge creation might be the only way for academics to sustain their jobs.
The marketisation of higher education is just a symptom of what’s wrong with universities.
When a degree is not enough, how can students make themselves more employable?
Traditional ways of describing the 'far right' are becoming outdated.
Teachers should seriously reconsider using technology to monitor behaviour because of the negative impact it could have on students.
Social isolation is particularly common among early career academics – new research shows 64% of PhD candidates report such feelings.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is on a mission to get schools to adopt a "high-quality" curriculum. But the effort will constrain teachers and stifle creativity, an education scholar argues.
Using the term 'at-risk' to describe students from challenging circumstances often creates more problems than it solves, a professor of counseling psychology argues.
Working class parents may be too busy to attend high school events, but they take an active role in their children's success.
The exam period can be a stressful time for students. Here are a few strategies to help students cope.
A study finds that there's a gap between the expectation of what university would be like, and the actual experience.
The relationship between higher education and labour market outcomes is overestimated and misinterpreted.
Is controversy extremist? The Charity Commission seems to think so.
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