Inquiry into 'deplorable dumbing down' move

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Standards at De Montfort University are being investigated by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) following a report in The Times Higher Education Supplement which revealed that the university's School of Pharmacy elected to automatically improve the exam result of students by up to 14% because their performance on the M Pharm degree had been so poor. The university claims that it never compromised standards but the RPS has placed the university "on probation" while it investigates the "fitness to practice" as pharmacists of students at De Montfort.

Legal issues & crime, Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Personnel administration, Pharmacies and Drug Stores, Colleges and universities, Pharmacists, Company legal issue, Universities and colleges, Investigations, Training, Medical colleges, Medical schools, Educational aspects, De Montfort University, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

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Oxford tutor attacks Cambridge interview

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Dawn Chatty, an Oxford University admissions tutor, has attacked her counterparts at Cambridge University for using what she claims are discredited "bullying and intimidating" interview techniques. Chatty made the claims after her daughter was rejected for a place to study medicine. Chatty contends that Cambridge's Downing College ignored its own policy guidelines when her daughter was interviewed last year and used interview techniques that both Oxford and Cambridge insist have long since been abandoned in favour of more inclusive techniques.

Management dynamics, Analysis, Practice, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, College admissions, University of Cambridge, Interviewing, Chatty, Dawn

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