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Inbox: Banking on tech, ID cards, Oxbridge answers
Comment As well as getting top GCSE and A-Level grades, would-be computer science students applying to Oxford University have to sit a written maths test and undergo at least two interviews as part of what the university terms a... [24 Oct 2008]
Are you an Oxbridge grade techie?
News As well as getting top GCSE and A-Level grades, would-be computer science students applying to Oxford University have to sit a written maths test and undergo at least two interviews as part of what the university terms a... [22 Oct 2008]
Gov't to spend £300m on free broadband for UK's poor
News A recent report by the Office for National Statistics found children with home broadband typically achieve better GCSE results. Nearly every family in the UK is to have access to broadband at home under plans laid out by... [23 Sep 2008]
Inbox: iPhone, the Facebook generation and the IT skills shortage
Comment YES there is a skills shortage in the under 30s and it is going to get much worse if the government don't change the ridiculous Key Stage 3 mandates, the dilution of GCSE grades and the awarding of degrees for work that... [17 Sep 2008]
Home broadband gives kids better GCSE results
News Having web access at home can make the difference between a pupil getting grade A at GCSE and grade D. Eighty-two per cent of individuals with GCE/GCSE A to C grade have the web at home, while just 74... [28 Aug 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
Comment Hardly surprising - the IT curriculum is crap and you end up teaching all of the kids who think that GCSE IT is a free ticket to play computer games all day. The issue that got readers talking this week was the... [03 Jul 2008]
Northern Ireland builds high tech credentials
News In terms of skills, Northern Ireland is one of the strongest region in terms of attainment at GCSE and A-level, while its two universities have strong reputations for technology. Northern Ireland is making a name for... [02 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tech skills slump, gov't snooping, Segway safety
Comment Is this at all surprising given that IT has been a "sink" subject in schools for the last few years, with the best schools not even carrying it as a GCSE option. The so-called skills slump in the UK has attracted a lot... [22 May 2008]
GCSE IT entries down by 10,000
News The number of students sitting the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) GCSE fell by around 10,000 this summer in comparison to last year. A spokesman for the Department for Children, Schools and Families... [24 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.08.07
Round-Up Last year a measly 47 per cent of pupils sitting GCSE English and maths achieved grade C or better. A Confederation of British Industry study has found that 92 per cent of employers are happy with the IT skills of their... [24 Aug 2007]
Tech-savvy school-leavers 'lack basic skills'
News The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Pertemps Employment Trends Survey found 92 per cent of employers are happy with the IT skills of GCSE students. The CBI puts this down to the familiarity of "generation... [20 Aug 2007]
£1,000 boost for tech and science students?
News At present, just eight per cent of GCSE students take three separate science courses, which the CBI hopes to raise to 40 per cent. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has said undergraduate students need a... [13 Aug 2007]
First online GCSE makes the grade
News The UK is soon to get its very first GCSE assessed entirely online. Awards body OCR has launched web assessment for the Environmental and Land-Based Science GCSE from this month. Thomas Alleynes School... [10 Oct 2006]
Pupils to receive GCSE and A-Level results online
News Exam board Edexcel is trialling the service this summer with around 1,000 GCSE and A-Level students who will get their results on 17 and 24 August. A smaller pilot among 200 maths GCSE students from... [01 Aug 2006]
School system and tech sector fail UK businesses
News The latest batch of A-Level and GCSE passes has once again highlighted a failing on the part of the UK school system, according to critics who fear education is now further adrift than ever from the needs of British... [26 Aug 2005]
