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Last modified on Tue 20 Apr 2021 16.59 EDT Students applying to university should be offered places based on their actual results rather than their predicted grades, the universities admissions service will say this week. As part of a long-awaited policy change aimed at making the system fairer, Ucas will give “cautious backing” to a post-qualifications admissions (PQA) system in which students apply to universities before they get their results, as they do now, but will not receive offers until after they know their final grades. The proposed new system would take at least three years to...
Ucas set to back plan for students to receive university offers after results (PA) Students should be allowed to receive offers from universities only once they have received their final grades, the admissions body is expected to say. Ucas is due to set out its recommendations for reforming the universities’ admissions system this week. John Cope, director of strategy, policy and public affairs at Ucas, said the organisation will be “cautiously backing” a model where offers would be based on students’ actual grades rather than predicted grades. But he said the other option on the tabl...
New Kensington-Arnold School District will spend up to $13,000 to find a new superintendent. The school board voted unanimously Tuesday to hire the Pennsylvania School Boards Association to conduct the search. The district will pay the association $5,000, plus up to $8,000 for additional costs. “Our longstanding relationship with school boards statewide and our network that not only reaches all corners of the state, but also outside of Pennsylvania, positions us to be able to offer up the broadest, relevant candidate pool for consideration,” PSBA spokeswoman Annette Stevenson said. In con...