Pre-Us, the alternative to A levels created and used by many English public schools, are to be scrapped.
The last Pre-U qualifications will be taken in 2023, with resits in June 2024, Cambridge Assessment International Education said. The small number of pupils taking the qualification had made it unsustainable, the exam board added.
Read MoreIn the 1980s glamour came to Norwegian TV: out were staid documentaries on fjords and the leather industry, in were flashy game shows and the Scandinavian version of Blind Date.
Some 30 years later researchers have spotted an unexpected side-effect — the earlier boys were exposed to cable television the worse they did in IQ tests.
Read MoreA director at the world’s most successful strategic consulting firm has brought the data-mining techniques of her day job to a decision with which many parents wrestle: how to help offspring choose a university course.
Tera Allas, director of research and economics at McKinsey and a self-confessed geek, said that it came as “no surprise” to her family when she launched a fact-based analysis and created a “prioritisation algorithm” to help her daughter weigh up courses.
Read More
