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| Mon 28 Aug 2017 19.22 BST | |
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| Surely recording the number of students coming into the UK is appropriate (Osborne urges Tory MPs to rebel over student immigration statistics, 26 August), provided that the number of students leaving the UK is also recorded. The result is that only the excess (the 5% overstayers and extra genuine students) appear in the net immigration figures. It would be appropriate to deduct the extra genuine students, as they represent an increase in the UK’s educational business.Peter RedmanDorchester | Surely recording the number of students coming into the UK is appropriate (Osborne urges Tory MPs to rebel over student immigration statistics, 26 August), provided that the number of students leaving the UK is also recorded. The result is that only the excess (the 5% overstayers and extra genuine students) appear in the net immigration figures. It would be appropriate to deduct the extra genuine students, as they represent an increase in the UK’s educational business.Peter RedmanDorchester |
| • With millions on the brink of starvation, a president with his finger on the nuclear button, and our own country going through the machinations of Brexit, it was interesting to see your choice of lead story on Saturday (Eton rocked by scandal of leaked exams, 26 August). Somehow, it was strangely consoling.Joanna RimmerNewcastle upon Tyne | • With millions on the brink of starvation, a president with his finger on the nuclear button, and our own country going through the machinations of Brexit, it was interesting to see your choice of lead story on Saturday (Eton rocked by scandal of leaked exams, 26 August). Somehow, it was strangely consoling.Joanna RimmerNewcastle upon Tyne |
| • I don’t understand the fuss about the leaked exams. Surely one more layer of unearned advantage for Etonians is small beer in the broader scheme of things?Robert BakerArkholme, Lancashire | • I don’t understand the fuss about the leaked exams. Surely one more layer of unearned advantage for Etonians is small beer in the broader scheme of things?Robert BakerArkholme, Lancashire |
| • Maybe we shouldn’t worry too much about the leaked exam papers in economics at Eton. Remember the old saying that “the questions in the economics paper are always the same – it’s just that the answers are different”.Bryan MorganWorksop, Nottinghamshire | • Maybe we shouldn’t worry too much about the leaked exam papers in economics at Eton. Remember the old saying that “the questions in the economics paper are always the same – it’s just that the answers are different”.Bryan MorganWorksop, Nottinghamshire |
| • Does the apparent confusion and difficulty in understanding the “unprecedented changes” in GCSE grading from A-G to 9-1 (Report, 24 August) mean that basic levels of literacy and numeracy are even lower than previously thought?Gary CalderChandler’s Ford, Hampshire | • Does the apparent confusion and difficulty in understanding the “unprecedented changes” in GCSE grading from A-G to 9-1 (Report, 24 August) mean that basic levels of literacy and numeracy are even lower than previously thought?Gary CalderChandler’s Ford, Hampshire |
| • Your feature on centenarians (‘You’ve been given a brain – use it’, G2, 28 August) says 101-year-old Joyce Fisher passed the 11-plus. No wonder – she would have been 28 when it was introduced in 1944.Mick WilsonBury St Edmunds | • Your feature on centenarians (‘You’ve been given a brain – use it’, G2, 28 August) says 101-year-old Joyce Fisher passed the 11-plus. No wonder – she would have been 28 when it was introduced in 1944.Mick WilsonBury St Edmunds |
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