Student satisfaction has hit an all-time low and universities are trying to work out how best to respond. Maintaining elements of online learning may bring some academic benefits, but risks harming student welfare further. University teaching has been decried as one of the slowest to adapt, least digitised and most people-intensive sectors of the economy. […]
Category: Schools, universities & training
Millions of children in the UK fell behind in their education while schools were closed in 2020. One-to-one tutoring is effective to make up lost learning, but costly. Offshoring online tutoring to lower-wage countries could allow for much wider access. Since March 2020, children in the UK have missed almost half a year of in-school […]
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This year’s exam chaos highlights a big issue with predicting A-level results. The evidence suggests that teachers typically over-predict, and some school students’ grades are harder to predict than others. This raises the question of why we continue to base university applications on these predictions. The cancellation of this year’s public examinations for school students […]
Following the cancellation of public exams, Ofqual used an algorithm based on rankings of students within a school, combined with each school’s historic performance, to allocate A-level grades. The resulting outcry led to grades instead being awarded based on school assessments. A-level examinations are taken by young people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland at […]
University lectures for large groups are unlikely to be possible in the next academic year. Students should be asking whether the alternative educational model being proposed will be worse, the same or even better than what has been traditionally offered in higher education. Because of social distancing requirements, universities are having to consider the viability […]
Education plays a key role in cultivating the cognitive, behavioural and emotional skills that enable children to succeed in life. What are school closures during lockdown likely to mean for the accumulation of these skills among primary and early secondary school age children? In the UK, most children have not attended school since mid-March. Instead, […]
Coronavirus has led to high-stakes summer examinations being cancelled and the grades replaced by teacher predictions, or administered in a new online format. It is vital to understand the potential impact on the lives of young people affected by these disruptions. The outcomes of examinations at key points in young people’s school and university careers […]
For many newly arrived migrant pupils, lockdown and school closures have had an influence not only on their educational achievements but also on the process of integration. These effects are likely to continue into the new school year. Lockdown and school closures in response to Covid-19 have caused major disruptions to the lives and educational […]