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Janet Downs: What are universities saying about A levels and undergraduate skills?

“We recognise in our department that students will experience a culture shock in moving from A levels to university and we try our best to help them make the transition from being spoon-fed to being able to design a spoon and then feed themselves!” said one respondent to a survey by Cambridge Assessment*. Lecturers from the Russell Group, University Alliance, Million ... read more and comment →

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Latest comment by Rebecca Hanson: "It's really taken off. One Cambridge Applicant I was doing practice interviews with had his with him in which he had derived the equations of relativity from scratch. I took two of my children to a show at our local ......"

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