News
News and updates from cife and its member colleges.
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Lord Lexden is new CIFE President
CIFE is delighted to announce that Lord Alistair Lexden is new CIFE President. Lord Lexden is a distinguished educationalist, historian and author of wide experience and interests who joined the House of Lords as a Conservative working peer in January 2011. Lord Lexden spent the first eight years of his working life as an academic…
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Outstanding CIFE college students win awards
Article in summary The article describes the 2013 CIFE awards ceremony at the House of Lords, and outlines the individual award winners’ achievements. Article in detail At the annual CIFE Academic Awards Presentation held at the House of Lords on Monday 18th March 2013, Baroness Perry of Southwark presented CIFE awards to thirty eight CIFE…
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OSFC student honoured with CIFE Prize
Maha Aljefri joined Oxford Sixth Form College in September 2010 to undertake A-levels with a view to applying to study Dentistry in the UK. She was indefatigable in her efforts, both within and beyond the classroom, to ensure that she was fully prepared for the interview, entrance tests and final exams. A model student in…
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MPW Birmingham student receives 2013 CIFE College Prize
Each year CIFE awards prizes to students who have excelled in a specific field, and it also awards College Prizes to students who it has been a particular pleasure to have in the college community. Sophia Nguyen, shown here with CIFE President Baroness Pauline Perry, joined us in January 2011 to start AS level courses…
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Collingham student honoured with CIFE Prize
CIFE awards are keenly contested. Award winners tend to excel in a number of areas and College Prizes specifically aimed at students who have made an exceptional all-round contribution to college life. Emma Mackilligan (pictured below with her parents at the House of Lords Award Ceremony) came to Collingham in 2009. She excelled at GCSE…
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Carfax student wins CIFE Prize
We’re delighted that Carfax student Yutaro Saito was honoured with a CIFE College Prize for outstanding contribution to college life. Yutaro came to Carfax from Japan with very limited English but with a clear ambition, to find a way to pursue his nascent academic interest in two rather specific subject areas, the Sanskrit language and…
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Brooke House student wins CIFE college prize
Mark Tan has won one of CIFE’s college awards for his excellent contribution to all aspects of life at Brooke House. he received his award from CIFE President Pauline Perry at a ceremony held in the House of Lords this March. Mark displays a superb attitude towards his learning, interacts and participates admirably in class,…
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Bath students win two CIFE awards in 2013
Two Bath academy students received prizes from CIFE President Baroness Perry in a ceremony at the House of Lords this March Chenge Wu (Ada), seen here with CIFE President Pauline Perry, won the Paul Kitchener Memorial Award. Ada enrolled at Bath Academy coming from China and quickly established a reputation as a serious and highly…
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Bales students win two CIFE prizes in 2013
Each March our professional association CIFE awards a number of prizes to exceptional students, and we have won two of them this year. Wu Yik Him has won a CIFE Value Added award. Him was disappointed with his GCSE results in Hong Kong so took the decision to move to London to live with his…
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CIFE makes the case for retakes
Article in summary Although history has moved on – January resits are no longer possible, and resitting individual units may become impossible from 2017 on, this 2010 article by Fiona Pocock makes the case for retakes. She argues that a ban would condemn many worthwhile students to living forever with the consequences of mistakes made…
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CIFE Awards 2011
Article in summary The article describes the CIFE academic awards, how recipients are chosen, the awards ceremony proceedings, and the individual CIFE Awards 2011 winners’ achievements and backgrounds. Article in detail Each year CIFE awards a series of prizes to students who have achieved outstanding results. To qualify for consideration students generally have to have gained…
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A levels remain highly valued
Article in summary Stuart Nicholson, current Chairman of CIFE, writing in 2010, explains that A levels are still the most popular pre-university option because they allow a student to focus on what most interests him or her, yet the range of subjects enables wide choice and permits both specialised and broad programmes of study. A levels…