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Report reveals that 64 per cent of parents say their child has been taken out of class or activities because of their disability. Parents who have children with special educational needs (SEN) believe that mainstream schools are failing to help them reach their full potential, according to a report published today

The government should change the system of UK student loans and make sure they can be used internationally as unless these loans are made available for overseas education, studying abroad will be limited to just the elite and the super bright students.

The universities minister has called for the UK Universities to introduce the US custom of both a major and minor subject option. Most universities are already following this US style of Education as it is more flexible education system than the UK system.

UK universities must go to India if they are to benefit from a shake up to international higher education which will see India enrolling the largest number of students into tertiary education in the world by 2020, warns a British Council report. Universities are being urged to drop its focus on recruiting Indian students to forming partnerships in India, creating new opportunities for UK students and academics to study and teach there, as well as encouraging collaboration through research.

UK universities should do more than talk the international talk and strive to provide for our cosmopolitan student populations with the opportunities to engage and learn from each other, and not focus solely on international strategies about income and student recruitment.

UK Universities set up International Campuses as there's a lot of potential for growth in African higher education, but the UK needs to move beyond marketing recruitment strategies to partnerships and exchange.

Online learning has now lost its image of being low-cost and low quality. More guidance is now available to the growing community of online learners like subscription service for schools that systems that encourages the teachers in the schools who sign up to discuss ways they can improve classroom planning and teaching.

Oxbridge graduates who come from disadvantaged homes are earning bigger starting salaries as much as £927 a year, than those from families with a history of going to university, according to a study by the Sutton Trust.

Cambridge University has been nudged off its perch as Britain’s leading Research University, overtaken by its traditional rival Oxford and the London powerhouses after a two-year-long assessment of research quality.

Private colleges risk tarnishing UK education system. As more and more students are enrolling at private colleges, the reputation of the higher education system of UK has come under stake.

Pushy parents are sending their children to private tutors for upto two hours that is being looked down upon by the president of the National Association of Head Teachers. The head teachers’ leader said that students are made miserable by sending then to tuitions after school and is apparently equivalent to child abuse.

The UK based charity body, Universities and Colleges Admissions Service has revealed that the higher education system is becoming a “buyers” market for applicants as more and more students with low A- levels are offered offers from universities as the institutions are lowering their entry requirements. In a major report, it was claimed that students now had much more choice over courses, with school leavers up to 80 per cent more likely to be given five offers of university places than in 2009.

The UK education board worried about the rising obesity in school going children. The president of the National Association of Head Teachers asks parents to stop driving their children to school as to give them more exercise and responsibility and prevent the failing health of children. This could be a major step in letting the students take up their own responsibility for their actions and potentials.

China seeks help of UK for D&T education
China has been considered one of the world’s education superpowers. It has however, asked UK for held to teach subjects of design and technology in its schools. The main reason behind this is that lesser students are now opting for design and Technology and therefore there are lesser teachers who have the training to teach these subjects.
Chinese schools have asked for UK’s help to train their teaching staff by adopting a more creative method in its schools. To fulfil China’s need, a team of UK teachers with the Design and Technology Association (DTA) flew out to China 10 days ago. The chief executive of DTA relates his concern about the lack of creativity and knowledge to apply the creativity inspite of good performances of their students.

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