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		<title>How to minimise the number of students from England after independence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pointing Statue, Københavns Universitet Originally uploaded by Blastframe At the moment, the main reason why English students are not all going to university in Scotland (where university tuition is free, compared to English universities that will typically charge £27,000 for a 3-year degree) is that Scottish universities charge them up to £27,000 for their degree. [...]]]></description>
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<p>At the moment, the main reason why English students are not all going to university in Scotland (where university tuition is free, compared to English universities that will typically charge £27,000 for a 3-year degree) is that Scottish universities charge them up to £27,000 for their degree.  This is only possible because the EU rule about not discriminating against EU students only applies to students from other EU countries (such as Ireland, Denmark or Bulgaria) and not to students from other parts of the UK (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).
<p>As soon as Scotland regains her independence, rUK students become EU students and will have to be treated in the same way as students from Scotland.
<p>However, some lessons can be learnt from Scandinavia.  Denmark in theory has to treat Swedish students the same as Danish ones, but this is not the whole truth.
<p>Denmark used to have a big problem with too many Swedes studying medicine in Copenhagen and then going home after graduation.  In 2007, Denmark therefore did <a href="http://www.information.dk/143517">two things</a> (link in Danish): (1) They changed the number of advanced highers (&#8220;højniveaufag&#8221;) a student needs to pass to get a grade top-up, which benefitted Danes in comparison with Swedes.  (2) They changed the way they translated Swedish grades into Danes ones (that is, they made it harder for them to get in).
<p>Apart from this, Denmark pays generous grants (typically £7616 per year) to university students who are either Danish citizens, have lived in Denmark for five years prior to starting university, or who have parents that are EU citizens and have moved to Denmark for work reasons.  Other students don&#8217;t get a penny.
<p>Scotland could copy some of these policies after independence.  There are already plenty of differences between A Levels and Scottish Highers to provide opportunities for tweaking the entry requirements to make it harder for English students to get into Scottish universities (the brilliant ones would of course still get in, but that would be to Scotland&#8217;s advantage anyway), and Scotland could introduce tuition fees for everybody, but cancel out the effect by creating grants for Scottish citizens and long-term residents.
<p>In an ideal world such measures shouldn&#8217;t be necessary, but until it dawns on the English that they&#8217;re shooting themselves in the foot by pricing bright young people out of universities, I fear that Scotland will have to take a leaf out of Denmark&#8217;s book.</p>
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		<title>Svenska är ett lätt främmande språk för danskar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[lära svenska Originally uploaded by loopkid Jag tog del i en språkkonferens i Köpenhamn i oktober, och dess slogan var: &#8220;Du förstår mer än du tror &#8211; om du törs&#8221;. Jag är oenig. Danskar förstår inte svenska om de aldrig varit i Sverige, aldrig sett svenska TV och aldrig haft svenska vänner, om de så [...]]]></description>
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<p>Jag tog del i en språkkonferens i Köpenhamn i oktober, och dess slogan var: &#8220;Du förstår mer än du tror &ndash; om du törs&#8221;.
<p>Jag är oenig.  Danskar förstår inte svenska om de aldrig varit i Sverige, aldrig sett svenska TV och aldrig haft svenska vänner, om de så törs eller inte.
<p>Jag förstår svenska därför att en svensk flicka på mitt baskiskkurs i Donostia pratade svenska med mig i pauserna. Jag förstod inte ett ord av talad svenska före kursen.
<p>Det vore mycket bättre att undervisa svenska som främmande språk i danska skolor, om än ett mycket lätt främmande språk som eleverna snabbt kan lära.  Målet skulle inte vara att prata 100% korrekt svenska, utan att förstå svensk som en infött och att kunna kommunicera med svensktalande utan kunskap i danska språket.
<p>Om svenskar och norrmän gjorde detsamma, skulle den nordiska språkgemenskapen återigen väckas till liv.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://cbsobserver.dk/node/2159">Handelshøjskolen i København</a> (eller <i>Copenhagen Business School</i>, som de kalder sig nu) blev vist ret sure, da en af deres kandidater fik at vide, at hun ikke kunne blive dansk statsborger, da hun havde fuldført et engelsksproget studium:<br />
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<p>Af Justitsministeriets (Indfødsretskontorets) afslag af 16. november 2011 på Pavlina Ivanovas ansøgning om at opnå dansk statsborgerskab ved naturalisation fremgik det, at ”ministeriet ikke finder, at du kan omfattes af reglerne i § 11 i cirkulæreskrivelse nr. 61 af 22. september 2008 om retningslinjer for naturalisation, idet man ikke anser din cand.merc.-uddannelse i Finance and Strategic Management fra CBS for at opfylder betingelsen om at uddannelsen skal være ”af dansk karakter”, eftersom undervisningen og eksaminer på uddannelsen udelukkende er foregået på et andet sprog end dansk.”
<p>Den var ny. En cand.merc.-uddannelse fra CBS er udviklet og udbudt på et statsfinansieret dansk universitet, er akkrediteret af ACE Denmark, og er godkendt af Uddannelsesministeriet (der sågar har en Styrelse for International Uddannelse, der skal fremme internationaliseringen af de danske uddannelser på alle niveauer, under sig) og er reguleret af dansk lovgivning på lige fod med CBS’ øvrige uddannelser. Skulle den være udansk? Ikke i CBS’ optik.</p>
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<p>Men det er jo et interessant spørgsmål.  Man kan godt få det indtryk, at danskere synes, at engelsk i Danmark er skønt, så længe det er engelsk talt af danskere, ikke hvis engelsk bruges af udlændinge, der bor i Danmark.
<p>Men sagen er jo den, at den nuværende situation ikke kan forventes at være permanent.  Hvis danske uddannelser og arbejdspladser i stigende grad er engelsksprogede, så vil der efterhånden opstå en større og større gruppe af mennesker, der bor i Danmark, men kun taler nødtørftigt dansk, da de bruger engelsk 95% af tiden.
<p>Alt, der mangler, er, at det bliver tilladt at kommunikere med de offentlige myndigheder på engelsk, og så vil gruppen af engelsktalende nydanskere formentlig vokse år for år.  Men tiden vil der sikkert også være forældre, som ikke engang kan se pointen i at lære deres børn ordentligt dansk.
<p>Hvis det ikke er det, man vil, så bør man nok snart begynde at værne noget mere om det danske sprogs position ved ikke konstant at øge mængden af sammenhænge, hvor man kan (eller skal) bruge engelsk i stedet for dansk.</p>
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		<title>Marcels nye skoleskema</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeg bloggede for et par måneder siden, at Marcel skulle til at vælge fag. Alt er nu faldet på plads, og her er hans skema for S3 (altså det tredie af seks år i high school): Mandag Tirsdag Onsdag Torsdag Fredag Matematik Personal and SocialEducation Idræt Engelsk Kemi Historie Fysik Spansk Kunst Matematik Fransk Engelsk [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jeg bloggede for et par måneder siden, at <a href="http://blog.widmann.org.uk/2011/02/16/3379/">Marcel skulle til at vælge fag</a>.
<p>Alt er nu faldet på plads, og her er hans skema for S3 (altså det tredie af seks år i <i>high school</i>):<br />
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<td>Historie</td>
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<td>Kunst</td>
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<td>Fysik</td>
<td>Spansk</td>
<td>Engelsk</td>
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<td>Engelsk</td>
<td>Kunst</td>
<td>Historie</td>
<td><i>Tutor groups</i></td>
<td>Religion</td>
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<td>Fransk</td>
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<td>Matematik</td>
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<p>Da han skulle vælge fagene, skrev jeg flg.:<br />
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<p>Marcel regner vistnok med at vælge historie, fysik, datalogi, idræt (eller drama) og kemi. Han ville dog meget hellere have haft spansk end datalogi, der ikke regnes for ret krævende af universiteterne.
<p>Der er dog det specielle med Marcel, at skolen regner med, at han består S4-fransk allerede i år. Det ville gøre det ret absurd for ham at tage normale fransktimer i S3 og S4, så vi håber, de vil lade ham tage spansk i stedet (eller i hvert fald noget andet brugbart, såsom geografi eller biologi). Det finder vi nok ud af i næste uge.</p></blockquote>
<p>Som det ses, fik han lov til at vælge spansk i stedet for datalogi, og han bestemte sig for kunst i stedet for idræt eller drama.  Til gengæld fortsætter han med fransk, omend han ikke skal følge samme pensum som resten af klassen, da han skal til studentereksamen i fransk inden for de næste to år.
<p>Opdatering (25/6): Marcel har nu fået lov til at tage idræt i stedet for kunst.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leeds Metropolitan JG Entrance Originally uploaded by effortDee Today Leeds Metropolitan announced they&#8217;re planning to charge £8500 a year from 2012. Given that Leeds Metropolitan (the former Leeds Polytechnic) is not considered a top university, this shows that almost no universities will charge the basic £6000. According to the Guardian, &#8220;David Willetts, the universities minister, [...]]]></description>
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<p>Today Leeds Metropolitan announced they&#8217;re planning to <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/universities-reveal-fee-plans-2255587.html">charge £8500 a year</a> from 2012.
<p>Given that Leeds Metropolitan (the former Leeds Polytechnic) is not considered a top university, this shows that almost no universities will charge the basic £6000.
<p>According to the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/mar/27/tuition-fees-universities-government-spending">Guardian</a>, &#8220;David Willetts, the universities minister, had anticipated that a market would develop, with institutions charging a wide range of fees&#8221;.
<p>I don&#8217;t understand why he had anticipated that, though.  If fees had to be paid upfront or paid back over a smallish number of years, you could have expected people to go for a cheap university unless employment prospects were exceptionally good at a dearer uni.
<p>However, the way the CoLD coalition have created a system that means that most people will pay 9% of their salary for 30 years, after which time the loan is cancelled, for the majority of people there is never any real hope of paying back the loan early, so they might as well borrow as much as possible because the difference will be paid by the taxpayers.
<p>In other words, if Leeds Metropolitan had decided to charge £6000 a year instead, very few of the graduates would by 2042 have paid any less for their education, so by charging £8500, they basically get £7500 extra per graduate over three years, all paid for by the state.
<p>As I&#8217;ve said before, I think the whole idea of tuition fees and graduate taxes is a disaster, and we should make all education free again and pay for it by cutting down on the number of students.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glasgow University (2) Originally uploaded by ScubaBeer In an article in The Herald it is claimed that &#8220;Scottish universities want to charge students fees of £12,000 for a four-year degree&#8221;. Shocking as that is in its own right, I found the last part of the article even more interesting: [U]niversities agreed with the Scottish Government [...]]]></description>
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<p>In an <a href="http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/secret-plans-to-charge-scots-students-12-000-1.1086258">article in The Herald</a> it is claimed that &#8220;Scottish universities want to charge students fees of £12,000 for a four-year degree&#8221;.
<p>Shocking as that is in its own right, I found the last part of the article even more interesting:<br />
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<p>[U]niversities agreed with the Scottish Government to maintain student numbers this year, despite cuts to the teaching budget, by paying a portion of the costs themselves.
<p>As a result, in 2011/12 some 19% of students, or nearly 28,000 learners, are “fees only students” – which means the Government pays only around a quarter of the cost of teaching them.
<p>[...]  [A]ny reduction of student numbers would hit first year students disproportionately hard, because universities cannot alter numbers in any other year. And it uses the example that, to achieve a 10% reduction in student numbers for a four-year course, first year admissions would have to be reduced by 40%.
<p>Under last year’s total intake to Scottish universities of some 35,000 UK students, that would mean 14,000 fewer next year – although it is inconceivable cuts of this magnitude would be sanctioned by any Scottish Government. “If universities are not confident of the urgent introduction of a sustainable funding model, they will be forced to act to bring the student population back to a level which is closer to the number of fully funded student places. Failure to do so could jeopardise the quality and long-term reputation of Scotland’s universities,” the circular states.
<p>“If student numbers had to be reduced, this would mean that increased numbers of well-qualified applicants would face rejection over late 2011, early 2012.”</p></blockquote>
<p>I actually think it would be good to lower the number of university students in the medium term.  There are far too many young people studying for degrees that aren&#8217;t going to help them find a job.
<p>However, it&#8217;s not the best universities &ndash; such as Glasgow, Edinburgh and St. Andrews &ndash; that need to downsize; it&#8217;s the new ones that clearly aren&#8217;t as highly rated by employers.
<p>Also, of course the government should create lots of good alternatives to a university study &ndash; I don&#8217;t suggest for one minute that the best alternative to going to university is simply to find a job straight after school.
<p>Finally, it&#8217;s paramount that any change happens slowly.  Reducing the number of university places by 40% in one year would be absolutely disastrous, which of course the universities know, which is why they&#8217;re saying it to call the government&#8217;s bluff.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Serious spoon-balancing Originally uploaded by PhylB Marcel går i S2, hvilket betyder 2. klasse i secondary school (eller high school), hvilket igen betyder, at han er i gang med sit niende skoleår. Da man begynder i skole tidligere end i Danmark, er han dog med sine 13½ år aldersmæssigt nok tættere på en dansk 7. [...]]]></description>
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<p>Marcel går i S2, hvilket betyder 2. klasse i <i>secondary school</i> (eller <i>high school</i>), hvilket igen betyder, at han er i gang med sit niende skoleår.  Da man begynder i skole tidligere end i Danmark, er han dog med sine 13½ år aldersmæssigt nok tættere på en dansk 7. klasse.
<p>Han skal fra næste år kun have otte fag, og engelsk, matematik og fransk (fortsættersprog) er selvskrevne, så han skal vælge fem fag.
<p>Efter yderligere to år skæres antallet af fag yderligere ned til fem, som man så tager en såkaldt <i>higher</i> i.
<p>Nogle af valgene kan aldrig gøres om, mens andre (som fx biologi) kan tages som en såkaldt <i>crash higher</i> i S6, hvor man altså lærer, hvad man ellers ville have lært i S3, S4 og S5.  (S6 kan også bruges til at tage <i>advanced highers</i>, og til at tage highers, man ikke havde tid til i S5.)
<p>Hvilke fag, han kan vælge, er lidt kompliceret.  Fagene er indtil i grupper, og han skal vælge ét fag fra hver gruppe:
<p><a href="http://blog.widmann.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/S3-choices.jpeg"><img src="http://blog.widmann.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/S3-choices.jpeg" alt="" title="S3 choices" width="100%"  class="aligncenter" /></a>
<p>Hvis man vil have muligheden for at studere på et godt universitet, bør man nok begrænse sig til de akademiske fag, altså historie eller geografi i gruppe D, og spansk eller kemi i gruppe H.
<p>Marcel regner vistnok med at vælge historie, fysik, datalogi, idræt (eller drama) og kemi.  Han ville dog meget hellere have haft spansk end datalogi, der ikke regnes for ret krævende af universiteterne.
<p>Der er dog det specielle med Marcel, at skolen regner med, at han består S4-fransk allerede i år.  Det ville gøre det ret absurd for ham at tage normale fransktimer i S3 og S4, så vi håber, de vil lade ham tage spansk i stedet (eller i hvert fald noget andet brugbart, såsom geografi eller biologi).  Det finder vi nok ud af i næste uge.</p>
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		<title>Det nordiske troldmandsgymnasium</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hogwarts Originally uploaded by Yersinia I Harry Potter-bøgerne omtales tre skoler, Hogwarts (Storbritannien og Irland), Beauxbatons (Frankrig) og Durmstrang (muligvis Rusland), men det er ikke oplagt, hvad troldmænd og hekse i andre lande gør, så lad os se på, hvad vi kan udlede om, hvad situationen i Danmark må være. Først må vi se på [...]]]></description>
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<p>I Harry Potter-bøgerne omtales tre skoler, Hogwarts (Storbritannien og Irland), Beauxbatons (Frankrig) og Durmstrang (muligvis Rusland), men det er ikke oplagt, hvad troldmænd og hekse i andre lande gør, så lad os se på, hvad vi kan udlede om, hvad situationen i Danmark må være.
<p>Først må vi se på størrelsen.  Jeg fandt flg. på <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogwarts">Wikipedia</a>:<br />
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<p>Rowling initially said there are about one thousand students at Hogwarts. She later suggested around six hundred, while acknowledging that this number was still inconsistent with the small number of people in Harry&#8217;s year. She further explained that this had resulted from her creating only 40 characters for Harry&#8217;s year.</p></blockquote>
<p>Der er altså mindst 280 elever (7 årgange à 40 elever), men nok snarere 600, og måske 1000.  Hvis vi antager, at der relativt er lige mange mennesker med magiske evner i Storbritannien og Danmark, vil en dansk troldmandsskole have mindst 24 elever, men nok snarere 50, og måske 85, fordelt på syv årgange.  Det er godt nok ikke ret mange!
<p>Lad os nu se på strukturen.  Idéen med at lade børnene gå i normale skoler, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleven_plus_exam">til de bliver 11</a>, og så sende dem på kostskole, er meget engelsk, og det er ikke oplagt, at en dansk troldmandsskole ville gøre det samme.
<p>Det er nok mere sandsynligt, at børnene bliver i folkeskolen til og med 9. klasse, og at troldmandsskolen er en slags troldmandsgymnasium med kostafdeling.
<p>Et troldmandsgymnasium ville naturligvis være endnu mindre &ndash; der ville kun være mellem 10 og 36 elever, men typisk 22, fordelt på de tre årgange, og jeg har svært ved at forestille mig, at en så lille skole ville være levedygtig.
<p>Det er nok sandsynligt, at man i stedet har en fællesnordisk uddannelsesinstitution på trods af de sproglige udfordringer.
<p>Det er nok tvivlsomt, om der findes videregående uddannelser bagefter.  Jeg vil ikke tro, der kan findes meget mere end 500 troldmænd og hekse i Danmark (inkl. spædbørn og pensionister), så hvis man vil lære mere efter gymnasiet, skal man nok en tur til udlandet.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting primary 1 Originally uploaded by PhylB Léon er nu begyndt på anden skoleuge, og han har fået lektier med hjem for første gang i dag. For det første skal han synge nogle talsange, som jeg sikkert ikke kender. For det andet skal de øve ord, der kan skrives med &#8216;a&#8217;, &#8216;i&#8217;, &#8216;s&#8217; og &#8216;t&#8217;. [...]]]></description>
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<p>Léon er nu begyndt på anden skoleuge, og han har fået lektier med hjem for første gang i dag.
<p>For det første skal han synge nogle talsange, som jeg sikkert ikke kender. <img src='http://blog.widmann.org.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':-(' class='wp-smiley' />
<p>For det andet skal de øve ord, der kan skrives med &#8216;a&#8217;, &#8216;i&#8217;, &#8216;s&#8217; og &#8216;t&#8217;.
<p>På engelsk er der sikkert gode grunde til at begynde med disse fire bogstaver (de prøver vist at undgå bogstaver som &#8216;e&#8217; og &#8216;r&#8217;, der hyppigt er stumme), men på dansk er der altså ikke ret mange ord, der kan skrives med dem.
<p>Jeg skrev fluks en one-liner til at finde alle ordene, og her er en fuldstændig liste:<br />
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<p>ais<br/>asiat<br/>at<br/>i<br/>sats<br/>sit<br/>stat<br/>statist<br/>sti<br/>tast<br/>ti<br/>tis</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8216;Ais&#8217;, &#8216;asiat&#8217;, &#8216;sats&#8217;, &#8216;stat&#8217; og &#8216;statist&#8217; kender han helt sikkert ikke, og &#8216;at&#8217;, &#8216;i&#8217; og &#8216;sit&#8217; er nok ikke de bedste ord at begynde med (konkrete substantiver og den slags er nok bedst), så tilbage bliver blot &#8216;sti&#8217;, &#8216;tast&#8217;, &#8216;ti&#8217; og &#8217;tis&#8217;.
<p>I Léons aktive ordforråd bliver denne liste nok til reduceret til &#8216;ti&#8217; og &#8217;tis&#8217;.
<p>Jeg glæder mig til senere på ugen, når han også begynder at bruge &#8216;n&#8217; og &#8216;p&#8217; &ndash; så kan vi da tilføje nogle nyttige ord såsom &#8216;ananas&#8217;, &#8216;pasta&#8217;, &#8216;satan&#8217; og &#8216;spinat&#8217;.</p>
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		<title>English grades vs. ECTS: A* should be called A, and A B</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Project 365 #231: 190810 The Proof Of The Pudding Originally uploaded by comedy_nose The A level results for England are here, and about 8% got an A*, while a plain A was awarded to 27% of pupils. As far as I can tell, this means that when mapping English grades to the ECTS grading scale, [...]]]></description>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/new-a-grade-for-1-in-12-alevels-2056609.html">A level results for England are here</a>, and about 8% got an A*, while a plain A was awarded to 27% of pupils.
<p>As far as I can tell, this means that when mapping English grades to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECTS_grading_scale">ECTS grading scale</a>, A should be mapped to B, and A* to A.  The mapping is not perfect, given that the ECTS system stipulates that 10% should get an A, and 25% a B, but it&#8217;s definitely very close.
<p>I don&#8217;t understand why the education authorities in the UK don&#8217;t try to get rid of <a href="http://blog.widmann.org.uk/2009/08/27/1474/">grade inflation</a> by adopting a statistical system such as ECTS.
<p>Otherwise, they&#8217;ll need to introduce a new grade such as A** in a few years&#8217; time, then A***, and so on ad nauseam.</p>
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