• For schools and colleges, the Tech Bacc will become a league table performance measure from 2017, in the way that schools are measured by the percentage of pupils who have achieved academic English Baccalaureate subjects.

    BBC: 'Tech Bacc' aims to boost status of vocational courses

  • Revised GCSEs in academic subjects, including English and maths, are due to be introduced in 2015.

    BBC: GCSE changes 'could see unpredictable results'

  • In early 2010, he was forwarded an e-mail in patchy English from a Ukrainian academic named Oleg Bakhtiyarov, who introduced himself as the director of a recently formed institution of higher education in Kiev called the University of Effective Development, and as a leading proponent of a philosophical movement called psychonetics.

    NEWYORKER: Utopian for Beginners

  • But she raised concerns about the idea of scrapping GCSEs in core academic subjects and replacing them with new English Baccalaureate Certificates (EBCs).

    BBC: Education & Family

  • Defending the tenure system was Dr. Cary Nelson, an English professor at my own academic institution (the University of Illinois) and President of the American Association of University Professors.

    FORBES: Professor Tenure as Insurance: What the Wall Street Journal Debate Missed

  • The Merzbarn in the Lake District was made at a desperate time in his life, when Schwitters found himself subsisting, with a serious heart condition, in dank English lodgings on the proceeds of academic portraits and landscapes, despondent that he could not even obtain an interview with the director of the National Gallery in London.

    ECONOMIST: Kurt Schwitters

  • The number of students applying for places in English universities for the 2011-12 academic year dropped by 10% compared to the same time last year.

    BBC: David Willetts: 'Demand for university is still strong'

  • Some 20% of the intake are on free school meals, an indicator of poverty often linked with poor academic performance, and 20% do not speak English at home.

    BBC: Schools celebrate league table success

  • Mr Gove indicated that computer science could be added to the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) list of key academic subjects that teenagers are encouraged to study at GCSE.

    BBC: Computer science teachers offered cash incentive

  • Besides English, she taught an elective on keys to academic success.

    WSJ: Comeback School Misses Mark

  • Castres' commitment was rewarded in the dying moments when Tillous-Borde went over in the corner, however the score was purely academic as Northampton closed out the game to ensure they became the first English team to record a 100% pool record since Bath in 2002.

    BBC: Castres 12-23 Northampton

  • Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said the English Baccalaureate "reinforces the idea that anything other than a traditional academic route is the poor relation".

    BBC: Teenagers must stick at English and maths

  • The first is that although the Welsh language flourishes (arguably because Welsh-medium schools offer a way for richer parents to enjoy academic selection), the region remains close to England, sharing, for example, the English press. (The Scots have their own newspapers.) And plenty of English newcomers are learning Welsh, drawn by those same good schools.

    ECONOMIST: Wales and Scotland at the polls

  • "Through the English Baccalaureate, we want to make sure all pupils have the chance to study the core academic subjects which universities and employers demand, " he said.

    BBC: GCSE results: Gender gap widens in record-breaking year

  • English is all very well for globe-spanning deals, suggests Hugo Baetens Beardsmore, a Belgian academic and adviser on language policy to the European Commission.

    ECONOMIST: The economic consequences of the rise of English

  • As universities select applicants on academic merit, less well-qualified Scottish students might be squeezed out and have to go to fee-charging English universities.

    ECONOMIST: Tuition fees

  • Because there is a minister in Michael Gove who must equally persuade all of the above that he has made the right call, that his English Bacc knocks the Welsh Bacc into a cocked hat, that his emphasis on more challenging exams and academic rigour will deliver gold standard qualifications.

    BBC: Welsh Baccalaureate or bust?

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