Recruiting to a course with film memorabilia
The University of Lincolnshire is using iconic moments from horror films and television to attract younger applicants to forensic science. Recruitment marketing is worth reading sceptically whatever form it takes: forensic science is a laboratory discipline with limited graduate vacancies, and the honest question to ask an admissions tutor is what last year’s graduates are doing now.
Three education sectors that do not talk to each other
Two education leaders examine the gaps between schools, further education and universities — different funding, different regulators, and students falling between them at sixteen and eighteen. It is the structural reason why so many applicants arrive without knowing what independent study or a module actually is.