Independent School Advice Blog
BORDER WARS - HOW TO GET INTO EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY
Mar 23 2010| School News
BORDER WARS - HOW TO GET INTO EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY
English independent schools (and their UCAS candidates) have been moaning about how cross they are that Edinburgh University imposes a quota on English applicants. Though I’m sure you could (and no doubt someone will) take the university to court for race discrimination, if you’re sensible you won’t bother.
The education system isn’t fair and...
MULTIPLY BY 2 - THE PROBLEM WITH TWINS
Mar 18 2010| School News| General
The University of Birmingham disclosed this week that parents of twins and triplets are 17 times more likely to get divorced than those whose children follow one another neatly in a line. There’s nothing more exhausting, of course, than double-barrelled screaming, but having a same-age household doesn’t necessarily get any easier when your kids go to school.
Fortunately, last October, the...