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Dr Kate Pretty, principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, has stated that A-levels are not adequately preparing teenagers for university and has found that students were arriving at university with short attention spans because they had taken A-levels in bite-sized chunks. “The gulf between the end of A-levels and the start of degrees was now too great”, [...]
Posted by Darren Sylvester on Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 6:44 am
Filed under Exams, In The News, latest law updates, Support For Law Students, Tutoring · Tagged A-level law, A-levels, A-levels in bite-sized chunks, acquiring and revising knowledge just for exams, Dr Kate Pretty, gulf between A-levels and the start of degrees, Law at university, LL.B. courses, memory skills, retaining information, short attention spans of students, students, undergraduates
I have come across two cases on the law of negligence that, even in the current climate of the compensation culture, judges have resisted the need to depart from the general principles of negligence. In Parker v TUI UK Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 1261, the claimant was injured when taking part in a tobogganing event [...]
Posted by Darren Sylvester on Friday, February 19, 2010 at 7:16 am
Filed under Exams, In The News, latest law updates, Support For Law Students, Tutoring · Tagged An update on the law of negligence, breach of duty, duty of care, exam problem questions, Minsitry of Defence, Parker v TUI UK Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 1261, RAF health and fun day, reasonable measures, risk assessment, safe, students, Tomlingson v Congleton Borough Council [2003] UKHL 47, tour operatiors, Uren v Corporation Leisure (UK) and ors [2010] EWHC 46 (QB)
