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LAST UPDATE | 13 Dec 2018
SEVEN PEOPLE HAVE been killed and 46 injured after a high-speed train crashed into a locomotive in the Turkish capital on Thursday.
The governorate said in a statement that one of those killed was the train driver and that 46 people were injured including three in a serious condition.
Ankara governor Vasip Sahin had earlier said four people had died and 43 were injured.
“This morning there was an accident after the 6.30am high-speed train to Konya hit a locomotive tasked with checking rails on the same route,” Sahin said.
The governor added that search and rescue efforts continued as “technical investigations” were underway to find out exactly what caused the crash in Yenimahalle district.
Images published by Turkish media showed some wagons had derailed and debris from the train scattered on the rail track.
The Ankara public prosecutor has launched an investigation into the crash, state news agency Anadolu reported.
The accident comes after another train disaster in July, when 24 people were killed and hundreds more injured after a train derailed in Tekirdag province, northwest Turkey, due to ground erosion following heavy rains.
I sat the leaving cert in 2004. Science in UCD was 290, now it’s 500. Such a difference.
Just looking at those points, I’m still surprised that some Software courses are not that high. Computer Science in UL is 325?
Computer Science in UCC is 340, now third lowest points. Above Arts and International development and food policy. In ’09 CS was 300.
aine hyland claims that the raise in entry points for maths based courses will lead to a falling off in the failure rate on those courses (as students had previously found them too difficult)
you get 25 extra for higher maths. the course requirement goes up by 25. so, you will obviously be far more able for the maths. 25 points extra and the resultant rise in entry requirements hve magically improved students ability to do maths?!!! irish solution etc
Is it 25 bonus points for higher level maths no matter what result you get? Or is it 25 bonus points for an A1 and then dropping by five points each grade after that? That’s what it used to be in UL right?
25 points for anyone who passes (so a D3)…
Seriously? With project maths? Are they having a laugh. They’re all going to fail first year if the course has a maths module that’s even remotely difficult. The engineering courses are going to see huge fail rates.
Well the individual courses should really have a maths requirement to get into them if they are mathematically focused. That would prevent those that arent’ capable from taking them up.
They do. But it’s no good if the maths course isn’t up to scratch. It’s wildly underestimating the students. It’s patronising and insulting and it’s a cheap copout to avoid hiring and training better maths teachers for secondary schools.
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