These are the education links we found interesting between July 11th and August 8th:
- How our school leavers fare – by school and by postcode| TheDetail.tv –
- Academics’ bin diving ’caused by zero-hours contracts’ | News | Times Higher Education – The issue of lecturers on zero-hours contracts, who are not guaranteed a fixed number of working hours per week, was a major topic of conversation at the congress, which ran from 29 to 31 May. Mike Cushman, research fellow at the London School of Economics’ department of management, said there was a
- Name, local authority, previous school name and faith designation of applications to open a free school: wave 3 – Publications – Inside Government – GOV.UK –
- Handling complaints in the high fees age | Features | Times Higher Education – Meanwhile, internet searches have made it easier for disgruntled students to find out about their rights, making them more likely to complain (and further adding to the OIA’s workload). To cope with the rise in complaints, the number of case handlers at the body grew from 35 in 2011 to 43 in 2012, al
- Sex for tuition fees: Are universities just refusing to face up to the facts? – News – Student – The Independent – “Objections were raised to asking questions [previously] cleared in the same institution and used in numerous previous studies by other authors. [As a result] the period of data collection was pushed back to a time when many students were unavailable through being off campus or on holiday,” the autho