New medical schools have opened, allowing 12,000 students to start medical degrees last autumn
The arts degree is in steady decline as medicine, computing and engineering soar in popularity, university entry figures show today.
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Covid maths/statistics.
Did you get the all clear in your daily cancer check this week? Of course you did not have one. Even after decades of trying it has proved extremely difficult to find regular tests that do not do more harm than good by wrongly telling healthy people they are ill. These basic statistics explain why scientists are very sceptical about Boris Johnson’s “Operation Moonshot”.
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“Did you know that a long, long time ago, long before there was even pizza in Chicago, we were known for something else—dragons?”
The students laugh, knowing it’s not true, but they lean forward to hear more.
“See, here in Chicago we had the most beautiful dragons that anyone had ever seen. Dragons that had colors that people couldn’t even imagine. If you were stealthy enough and watched over by the lake, you could have seen dragons of the deepest blues, whose scales changed colors with the seasons. Over in Grant Park, you might spot dragons with scales in jewel-toned greens hiding in the trees, and white winter dragons that shimmered in the coldest weather. But then everything changed.”
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Your average American 14-year-old just started his or her freshman year in high school. They might be trying out for their school basketball team for winter sports or they could be auditioning for the school play.
But Kara Fan is not your run-of-the-mill 14-year-old. She is America’s Top Young Scientist.
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With a line-up of heroines whose impossible beauty is matched only by their catty one-liners, Mean Girls is supposed to be an over-the-top portrayal of schoolgirls that classmates love to hate.
However, the film may be closer to home than to Hollywood fantasy, according to academics who have conducted research into teen popularity.
The study has found that Machiavellian pupils are at the top of the tree. Liked and feared in equal measure, such teenagers strategically balance aggression with charm.
Mean Girls, written by Tina Fey and starring Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Seyfried, was released in 2004 but retains a cult following, with its own Twitter account, annual day of celebration and a Broadway musical that is coming to the West End.
The popular clique of girls — the Plastics — dish out lines including: “I’m sorry that people are so jealous of me. But I can’t help it that I’m popular.”
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