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EV Reliability As Varied As Gasoline Cars, Consumer Reports Finds

By Loknath Das
December 9, 2021
in :  Car Reviews
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Battery electric vehicles accounted for about 1.5% of U.S. new vehicle sales last year, a small and growing number that will grow over the next decade as automakers bring out more offerings and more consumers discover some of the advantages over gas cars. Already there are enough different models for Consumer Reports and J.D. Power to create electric vehicle categories in their …

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Ukraine finds Russian ‘soldiers’ guilty of waging war

By subhadip
April 18, 2016
in :  News
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A Ukrainian court has convicted two alleged Russian special forces soldiers of crimes including terrorism and sentenced them to 14 years in jail. The pair – Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Alexander Alexandrov – were captured in eastern Ukraine last May. Russia denies sending troops to the region and has said the men were volunteers who had left active service. A fragile …

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Government will miss ‘ambitious’ 2020 higher education widening participation targets, report finds

By subhadip
April 6, 2016
in :  Education
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Sean Gallup/Getty Images The Government is on course to miss its own “ambitious” targets for widening participation in higher education (HE) by 2020, according to a recent report. Independent think tank the Social Market Foundation’s (SMF) findings in Widening Participation has also highlighted “significant differences” between institutions’ intake of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Government has been aiming to double …

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White teachers are significantly more likely to doubt the ability of black students, study finds

By subhadip
April 2, 2016
in :  Education
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White teachers have significantly less faith in their black students’ academic success when compared with black teachers, a recent study has found. Researchers in the US analysed data from an ongoing 2002 education study which followed 8,400 tenth-grade public school pupils. That survey asked two different teachers – who each taught a particular student in either maths or reading – …

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School leaders overwhelmingly opposed to Government’s academies plan, poll finds

By subhadip
March 29, 2016
in :  Education
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The poll was conducted by the NUT Getty Images Only a tiny proportion of school leaders support the Government’s plan to force all schools to become academies, a new survey suggests. Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget earlier this month confirmed that every school in England would be on its way to becoming an academy by 2020 – whether local parents and teachers supported …

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Teachers work more overtime than any other professionals, analysis finds

By subhadip
February 27, 2016
in :  Education
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Teachers are more likely to work unpaid overtime than staff in any other industry, with some working almost 13 extra hours per week, according to research. A study of official figures from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) found that 61.4 per cent of primary school teachers worked unpaid overtime in 2014, equating to 12.9 additional hours a week. Among secondary teachers, …

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Privately educated people dominate top British jobs, damning report finds

By subhadip
February 26, 2016
in :  Education
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Virtually every key profession is dominated by privately educated pupils snaffling the senior jobs Getty Images The stranglehold former public-school pupils have on the UK’s top jobs has laid bare in a hard-hitting report out today. The study, by the Sutton Trust education charity, shows that virtually every key profession is dominated by privately educated pupils snaffling the senior jobs. …

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Private education a ticket to Britain’s most prestigious jobs finds Sutton Trust study

By subhadip
February 24, 2016
in :  Education
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A survey has found that access to prestigious jobs in the UK for people from comprehensive schools has barely improved in a generation, raising serious questions about social mobility in the country. The military, medicine, politics, civil service, journalism, business, law, music, and the film industry are over-represented by former independent school pupils. Data from the education charity the Sutton …

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Privately educated people dominate top British jobs, damning report finds

By subhadip
February 24, 2016
in :  Education
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The stranglehold former public-school pupils have on the UK’s top jobs has laid bare in a hard-hitting report out today. The study, by the Sutton Trust education charity, shows that virtually every key profession is dominated by privately educated pupils snaffling the senior jobs. Their grip on power is most noticeable in the judiciary, where 74 per cent of leading …

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Applicants Want Mix of Old and New Technology in Recruitment, Survey Finds

By subhadip
February 15, 2016
in :  Education
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Now that most teenagers have access to a smartphone, they want colleges to text them — except when they don’t. Student recruitment is complicated like that, as a new national survey of college-bound students suggests. Although most respondents (57 percent) said they were willing to receive texts from colleges, some kinds of messages appealed to them more than others. The …

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