Hi there, its Peter here. Welcome to the start of another week of Levy Letters. I hope you had a good weekend, although the weather wasnt very good was it? And it was a sad weekend too for Scunthorpe United fans as well. On the programme tonight, well be talking with Iron fans today after their teams relegation from the Championship this weekend. Commiserations to the team! So perhaps not a cheerful weekend for football fans in Scunthorpe!
Also on Look North tonight, we'll have a special report looking at what's happening to our rural villages as a new report out today shows they're dying out. And we'll also investigate as new figures bolster claims that there's a large rise in self harming at Lincoln Prison. Plus it's the find of the century. We'll meet the Hull family, who found a seventy thousand year old woolly mammoth tusk at Spurn Point. Thats all on BBC One just before half past six. I hope you can join me tonight. Degrees I think Ive said in the Letter before that you can do a degree in just about anything nowadays. Heres the latest one one of Englands newest universities is offering tailor-made degrees in the management of selling beds. This latest degree, to teach you how to sell a bed, has been developed in partnership with a bed company. This is described as the kind of collaboration between industry and higher education that the government wants to encourage. So there you go. Its been much-discussed that higher education should look towards industries for a more hands-on or on-the-job approach to learning. So is this the answer? Heres one suggestion a degree in how to sell a bed in connection with a bed company. Its quite specific isnt it? Any thoughts on this as always get in touch with me. Id love to hear from you. Its [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exams Staying on the education theme, heres how technology is being used to tackle the age-old problem of pupils cheating at exams. CCTV cameras could be used in examination halls to catch cheats and also to prevent unfounded complaints against invigilators. Exam cheats are apparently using increasingly hi-tech methods to smuggle in the answers. So teachers have now to use technology to help them track down the cheaters. Exam papers are electronically tagged in some schools and internet technology is being used to spot passages of plagiarised texts. Ive never heard of this either, but exam invigilators are concerned that students might make complaints about them, claiming that they were being put off their work because they were being stared at, for example, or that the invigilator had failed to give them a certain vital instruction. So by installing CCTV in exam halls, its hoped this will act as a deterrent. And a deterrent is needed too. In 2006, cases of cheating detected by! exam boards in England rose by more than a quarter on the previous year. Taking unauthorised items into exam rooms was the most common offence with 60% of such cases involving mobile phones. So there you go. Cheating is getting more hi-tech, but hopefully CCTV might act as a deterrent. Well, that's it from me for now. Have a good Monday and join me tonight if you can. Take care, Peter And for the latest news and more where you live, go to: http://bbc.co.uk/humber and http://bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the BBC Look North newsletter, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/looknorthhull/newsletter/newsletter_index.shtml, enter your email address in the unsubscribe box. 1.94.4
