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Astronomers claim to have found a planet similar to Tatooine – the (fictional) home of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars.
Although cold and gaseous rather than a desert world, the newfound planet Kepler-16b is the closest astronomers have come to discovering a world like that featured in Star Wars.
Like Tatooine, Kepler-16b enjoys a double [...]
Education chiefs have announced a shake-up in the types of qualifications which will be included in national school league tables.
The changes come in the wake of Professor Alison Wolf’s review of vocational education.
The Government claims its changes to the league tables will “ensure schools focus on valued qualifications that make it easier for [...]
Reading extra-curricular books has a greater effect on career prospects than other activities, research suggests.
Mark Taylor, from Oxford University’s Department of Sociology, poured over 17,200 questionnaire responses from people born in 1970, which gave details of extra-curricular activities at the age of 16 and their careers at the age of 33. The findings, which [...]
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