Archive for November, 2007
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
T.E.S. have discovered that Edexcel’s profits have risen seven-fold in three years and that one of Edexcel’s directors earned a whopping £450,000 in pay and pensions contributions last year - easily the highest known figure earned by anyone in British education.
In 2005 Edexcel became the first large examination board to ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
The AQA (A) specification is still the clear leader in terms of number of students sitting the different specifications.
Last June (2007) 60.6% of students sitting A level psychology followed the AQA (A) specifications and 60.4% of students sitting AS psychology followed the AQA (A) route.
Below are figures taken from the ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Last month Warwick Mansell, a journalist working for TES, discovered that examiners who were remarking OCR psychology papers were told not to change students' A-level marks after school or college appeals unless there are overwhelming reasons to do so.
This is of course particularly cruel for those students who had their ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
This course looks fascinating, and should be of interest to psychology teachers wanting to extend their knowledge about human brain anatomy. The three-day programme incorporates integrated lectures and dissection-room practicals, examining human brains and includes functional anatomy of the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia and limbic system.
The course is led by ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Individual candidates who move to another centre or who, for other reasons, have to change their course of study part way through a GCE psychology course may be eligible to transfer credit between specifications. Transfer is not automatic - an application must be made to the receiving awarding body.
However, transfer ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Has the number of students sitting A level psychology reached a plateaux or are we going to see a decline?
According to data from the J.C.Q. the number of students sitting A level psychology has fallen for the first time.
In June 2007 52,048 candidates sat A level psychology whereas in June ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Insight Conferences have sent me an update on their November and December crime conferences. They still have some places available. The conferences will be suitable for students studying Law, Psychology, Sociology, Forensics etc.
Venues will include:
Friends House, Euston Road, London, Friday 16th November 2007
Gala Theatre, Durham Monday 26th November 2007
Hulme Hall, ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
According to my email delivered on the 6th November
“OCR have produced Schemes of Work for the revised A Level qualifications, with a new approach piloted for a range of subjects. For these, we have adopted a ‘by teachers, for teachers approach, working with teachers from a number of different centres. ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Psychseed.com
Psychseed aim to provide A Level Psychology (AQA A) teachers with high quality, easily accessible resources. They say that their student revision days and teacher workshops are designed to help you and your students focus on those aspects of the subject that are key to success.
Psychseed offer
Succeed in Psychology – ...
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Uniview recently posted their new catalogue out to centres and if you are not on their mailing list, you can go over to their web site and order one. Myself I like trees, so I would suggest that you subscribe to their e-newsletter or just visit their site.
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