Young People are Key to Our Future

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WORCESTER-based Yamazaki Mazak is offering work placements to students as it supports initiatives that promote engineering as a career.

One scheme is the Young Apprenticeship Programme, taught in the Midlands through the ContinU Trust in secondary schools in Wyre Forest and at New College, Bromsgrove.

The programme is aimed at 14 to 16-year-olds and offers an alternative route through GCSE level education. The first five students ..more
Mike Pryce, Worcester News

Wrong Incentives for British Doctoral Programs?

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A university with one of the worst Ph.D. completion rates in Britain has admitted that some of its candidates are not suitable for doctoral study – particularly international students who lack an adequate level of written English.

The University of Derby, which began offering doctorates in 1992, was one of 10 institutions contacted by the Higher Education Funding Council for England last summer and asked to explain why...more...

Times Higher Education