{"id":685,"date":"2013-02-16T17:03:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T17:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/?p=685"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:25:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:25:50","slug":"useful-education-links-for-january-11th-through-february-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2013\/02\/useful-education-links-for-january-11th-through-february-16th\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful education links for January 11th through February 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: right;\" ><a class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-via=\"\" data-count=\"none\" data-related=\"mohanjith:S H Mohanjith\" data-lang=\"en\" data-url=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2013\/02\/useful-education-links-for-january-11th-through-february-16th\/\" data-text=\"Useful education links for January 11th through February 16th\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=&#038;count=none&#038;related=mohanjith%3AS%20H%20Mohanjith&#038;lang=en&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Feducation%2F2013%2F02%2Fuseful-education-links-for-january-11th-through-february-16th%2F&#038;text=Useful%20education%20links%20for%20January%2011th%20through%20February%2016th\" >Tweet<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>These are the education links we found interesting between January 11th and February 16th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/m.guardian.co.uk\/education\/2013\/feb\/15\/universities-fine-students-550000\">University students pay &pound;550,000 fines in a year<\/a> &#8211; Oxford and Cambridge rank seventh and fifth respectively in the fines table. Fines for missing a supervision with a tutor vary from &pound;10 to &pound;200 across Cambridge colleges. While many colleges said the money was used to fund student hardship programmes, Downing college, Cambridge, admitted using the fines to fund the &quot;annual staff outing&quot;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/birmingham-childrens-care-homes-and-the-41million-154044\">Birmingham children&#8217;s care homes and the &pound;41million scandal &#8211; Birmingham Mail<\/a> &#8211; [MAY 2011]: THE cost of placing troubled children from Birmingham in private care has rocketed after council chiefs closed four kids&rsquo; homes in the city. In a four month period last year, the bill was &pound;13,772,491 &ndash; the equivalent of &pound;41 million a year, compared to just &pound;18,434,830 for the whole of 200<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/m.guardian.co.uk\/education\/2013\/jan\/18\/tuition-fees-student-numbers-figures\">Higher tuition fees caused &#8216;wild swings&#8217; in student numbers, figures show<\/a> &#8211; London Metropolitan University suffered the biggest losses (-43%) as it struggled to recover from the revocation of its licence to sponsor international students, also a major blow to its reputation among home students. The numbers enrolling at the University of Southampton (-13%), the University of Liverpool (-10%), the University of Sheffield (-9%), the University of Birmingham (-7%), the University of Leeds (-6%), Imperial (-6%), and Queen Mary, University of London (-6%) all fell on 2011.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/m.guardian.co.uk\/education\/2013\/jan\/10\/gove-appoints-john-nash-education-minister\">Michael Gove appoints Tory donor John Nash as education minister<\/a> &#8211; Nash and his wife have given nearly &pound;300,000 to the Conservative party since 2006, Electoral Commission records show and the Department for Education confirms. His appointment follows Lord Popat of Harrow being made a government whip this week. He has given the Conservatives &pound;288,000 since David Cameron became leader.  Nash runs a charity called Future that is active in sponsoring a range of academies, but it has been agreed with the Cabinet Office that he will play no role in decisions that could be deemed to affect his charity.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.gov.uk\/a00205178\/freedom-of-information-guide-for-academies\">Freedom of Information guide for academies &#8211; Welcome<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet These are the education links we found interesting between January 11th and February 16th: University students pay &pound;550,000 fines in a year &#8211; Oxford and Cambridge rank seventh and fifth respectively in the fines table. 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