Good University Guide 2010: Do the tables work?

Posted by HE, In The News, Research Friday, October 9th, 2009
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Ahem, not really. This post will set out an assessment of the methodology of the Times Good University Guide 2010. The aim is to show how judgements of quality based on these tables are untenable. More seriously, it highlights the muddle that the current all-encompassing scientific paradigm so beloved of Government has landed us in. [...]

A* for Oxbridge

Posted by Education Philosophy, HE Friday, October 9th, 2009
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Oxford to defer use of A* grade for admissions? Why bother? Still doesn’t deal with the more fundamental issue of whether grades can be awarded fairly. Changing the grades won’t alter the fact that the whole grading system of A levels and so on is ripe for reform. As argued before on EducationState, the awarding [...]

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