Tagged media studies

Pointless Media Studies degree courses facing closure, warn under-achieving academics

Skylarking
Education
May 8, 2013

Scores of rubbish Media Studies degrees around the country are facing closure, according to the lecturers’ union NOPULU (Not Proper University Lecturers’ Union). The warning follows new figures from UCAS, which show the lucrative ‘crap sector’ [read...]

Scandal as Media Studies AS-level exam accidentally features basic numeracy question

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News In Brief
June 11, 2011

The UK’s exam bodies were again under scrutiny after an AS Level Media Studies exam paper featured an ‘impossible’ question requiring basic knowledge of the 7 times tables. Instead of the planned question ‘Discuss the need for media regulation,’ [read...]

Government to introduce GCSE in texting

Team Biscuit
Education
July 13, 2007

‘Kids taking their mobiles into exam and texting each other all the answers,’ [read...]