Most young schoolchildren will very likely be only too happy to learn their school has closed for the day. They might be compelled to feign disappo...

Everyone knows that the printing press is the most important invention - it has almost become passé to point out how it facilitated the disseminat...

Every year the OECD - the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, an intergovernmental economic organisation containing 36 member c...

When I was a pupil secondary school, way back in the 1980`s, I believe there were at least 30 of us in every class. My surname meant that I was usu...

A new year is upon us, and so it is the time to resolve to cast away bad habits, and take up good ones. Most people end up making a couple of resol...

When I attended secondary school back in the 1970`s I would transport my textbooks and pens - the paraphernalia of learning - from class to class i...

There can`t be a parent who doesn`t know the importance of reading to their children, of nurturing their interest in stories and literature. After...

There is an abundance of literature covering different ways to study, giving advice to students who may be preparing for an exam, or writing a diss...

There are many reason why a parent might choose to home school their child. Perhaps the most common one is because a child is being bullied, and th...

Would you rather be good looking or intelligent? This is the kind of question, facile though it may be, that is guaranteed to engender a friendly d...

Back when I was studying for my A-Levels and applying for places at universities, I can recall being somewhat disappointed that my list of choices...

It`s unlikely anyone in the UK is unaware about the actions of the `Extinction Rebellion` group, who have brought parts of central London to a stan...

In this country it is almost unthinkable that large swathes of the population might be unable to read or write. Literacy is such a necessity in tod...

The majority of schools do not allow mobile phones to be used in class, and there are some schools that demand pupils hand their phones into their...

In fairy tales and legends the character of `the wise old man` often features. This venerable sage, with his long white beard and modest attire is...

Some pupils entering key stage 5 in September will be the first to begin studying for the new T-Level qualifications. These new grades are tailored...

It`s almost too long ago for me to remember the day I got my exam results, but I`m sure that for all students the long wait for their papers to be...

My doctor recently recommended I join a gym, but when I visited my local health club all the activities looked a little too strenuous for my delica...

Back in the dark ages when I completed my sixth form, it was fairly common for students to take a `gap year` before attending university. This enta...

Who can forget the feeling at the beginning of the school summer holidays? The sound of the school bell announcing 6 whole weeks of freedom? I can...

Most students leaving home to study at university will spend their first year living on campus. This is accommodation on university grounds, with s...

s most people are aware we are still suffering through austerity, with significant cuts to most public sectors, including the police force, and the...

A 2018 study conducted by Salary Finance, a savings and loans company, found that over three quarters of people polled were worried about their fin...

The importance of reading to a child is of course known to all - parents are encouraged to read to their young children during their time at nurser...

Many students may have enjoyed an unfair advantage in their A-levels last month, as it was revealed a Maths paper was leaked online some time befor...

A recent poll carried out by the National Deaf Children`s Society (NDCS) suggests a lack of support for deaf students at university is driving many...

t has long been known that music has a restorative power, being able to soothe and relax. As the popular phrase goes: `Music has charms to soothe a...

Ofsted`s suggestion to overcoming exam anxiety: don`t tell children they are actually taking a test.

Examinophobia, the fear of taking ex...

It`s that dreaded time of year once again - for thousands of pupils across the country, the exams that were safely far away in the future are now a...

The parents of Year 2 pupils at Bealings primary school have staged a protest over the Sats tests their children are obliged to sit. Such is the st...

I was a school pupil back in the 70`s and 80`s, and I remember many of my teachers being of somewhat `advanced` years. Of course to a child or even...

The Education Policy Institute, a think tank based in Westminster, has just released research that suggests almost 50,000 children have disappeared...

A classroom may well be the perfect incubation vessel for viruses and bacteria. Every weekday it`s filled with an assortment of children, who cough...

With no way to objectively assess how good one school is over another many people will simply rely on anecdotal evidence. Parents may select a scho...

The NASUWT teaching union have highlighted the growing occurrence of older teachers being `bullied out of schools.` A recent report has disclosed t...

In case you missed the news bulletin, spring officially began last Wednesday, on the 20th march. The long winter is finally over, and people are al...

My cousin is autistic, and from what I have heard attends an excellent state school, which provides a lot of understanding and support. The SEN and...

A friend of mine is a university examiner - she works for OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Exams). My understanding was that her job entailed compili...

For many years I was in the financial sector, working on average around 10 hours a day, often for six or seven days a week. It was a strenuous prof...

The PISA chief has announced that coding, a recent addition to the UK`s national curriculum `will be outdated very soon.` PISA is the OECD`s (Organ...

We have all heard the slogan `Too big to fail` - the assertion that certain institutions, primarily financial ones, are so interconnected and vital...

The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has revealed, in report published last month, that a quarter of early years teachers possess no qualifications...

Rules may be relaxed permitting schools to build on-site accommodation for teachers

There are indications that certain planning regulations...

I can remember receiving an unconditional offer from my chosen university, and joking with my parents that I didn`t need to revise for my exams. `W...

At the end of last year a pay award was handed out by the government, which promised to grant a pay rise for all teachers - 3.5 per cent increase f...

Teaching methods have of course altered dramatically over the centuries, but perhaps the last 50 years have marked the most significant changes in...

It was with great dismay that I heard about the possible closure of the philosophy department at the university of Hull, the establishment I attend...

I was a teacher for more than 15 years, and certainly have many fond memories of my time in the profession. What I remember most strongly though ar...

Two years ago a study revealed that as many as a quarter of all adults in the UK possess a literacy level of one or below. This means that they wou...

A series of new government proposals could allow degrees to be completed in only 2 years. Any universities offering these accelerated degree course...

We are all used to reading about the government bailing out Banks when they face hard times, but what about universities? Can they expect the same...

When I was training to be a teacher back in the late 1980`s we were all told that we had to make lessons fun. Children learn through playing, so th...

A recent study published by the Global Teacher Status Index shows that teachers in Britain are working more hours per week than nearly anywhere els...

I can vividly remember having enjoyed music lessons throughout primary school, and indeed the first few years of secondary school up to GCSE. Admit...

I attended a well known school that was acclaimed for its consistant high standing in academic league tables. It boasted impressive figures that pr...

New research from the National Literacy Trust (NLT) charity has made a strong case for a positive link between literary activity and mental health....

The inevitable return to school after the long summer holidays can be extremely daunting. At the beginning of the break the plentiful days of freed...

In many ways GCSE`s mark a frontier in in an adolescent`s life. Discounting the possibility of any earlier, precociously acquired accolades, the ma...

For many years now there has been a teacher shortage in the UK. Back in 2016 the National Audit Office (NAO) confirmed in an extensive report that...

A-level Results day looms, but is the predicted grade system hopelessly out of date?

All around the UK tens of thousands of students are ea...

After a long pay freeze teachers are to receive as much as a 3.5% raise

Ever since 2013 teachers have had to endure their pay increases bei...

Astonishing new figures from the department of education show that there has been a 15% rise in the number of pupils who were expelled from state s...

Most parents want their children to read more and play video games less. It would be hard to imagine a parent telling their child `put that book do...

A study conducted by the School of Optometry and Vision Sciences at Cardiff University, and recently published in the British Medical Journal, make...

The problem of childcare is a perennial one for working parents. Who takes care of the children during the day while they are at work? The situatio...

With all the negative stories in the media at moment - indeed always, what else is newscasting but a quotidian horror-show - it's nice to find a st...

People are commonly classified as being either visual or auditory learners. If you are a visual learner you will understand information with greate...

Teachers are turning to Emojis to help children understand Shakespeare

A growing number of teachers are using emojis as a tool to help thei...

A new school rule will be enforced this summer - students will be banned from wearing wristwatches of any kind during their GCSE and A-level exams....

`World`s best teacher` says the arts can save pupils from gang crime

A teacher from Alperton Community School in Brent has made the claim t...

University Fees - are they making higher education a privilege only the affluent can afford?

Should education be free? Is education a rig...

Students afflicted by a `Vocabulary deficiency` say UK teachers

A report commissioned by the Oxford University Press has found that many sc...

There is growing concern about the mental health of students at school and university, with many teachers, parents, and doctors claiming that they...

Children distressed that they can`t swipe the pages of real books

There are numerous reports from teachers at receptions schools and nurser...

Headphones and earphones are now so ubiquitous we hardly take notice of them, but future historians may well regard these micro speakers as the beg...

It seems barely a week can pass without another school shooting in America - and while we may think ourselves lucky that our children are not under...

I had become aware that the 1st of March was some kind of `dress down` day for schools, for every year I would see schoolchildren attired in fancy...

Make children take more exams from a younger age to combat mental health disorders

Schools Minister Nick Gibb, addressing a joint hearing o...

What is 8 x 9? School`s Minister Nick Gibb`s answer: `I`m not going to get into this.`

School`s Minister Nick Gibb faced an embarrassing si...

The former Work and Pensions Minister Damian Hinds has been appointed the new Education Secretary, after Justin Greening resigned earlier this mont...

Parents had until the 16th of January to select a primary school for their child. For many parents this date has been looming ominously for months...

With so much importance being placed on just a few exams during their teenage years, is it really a surprise that that many pupils decide to try to...

Last week The French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer announced that mobile phones will be banned in both primary and middle schools from Se...

The University of Exeter has published a report stating that both primary and secondary schools are placing more emphasis on `grammatical acrobatic...

Recent Ofsted inspectors have issued some dismaying news, saying that a third of five year olds lack the knowledge they should possess after comple...

Home schooling, or home education as it is actually termed in the UK, simply means a child receives all their education at home, either from tutors...

Many parents would say that their children spend far too much time playing computer games, and might wish they had as much enthusiasm for their stu...

A secondary school in Kent has been censured for using emojis to display pupils` GCSE scores. St John Fisher Catholic School in Chatham displayed t...

Virtual reality was all the rage in the early 90`s - it was the new `cool` technology. Not dry and academic like the PC`s that were beginning to cr...

The National Curriculum underwent a major change in the September of 2014, with ICT (Information Communication Technology) becoming GCSE Computer S...

Earlier this week Court of Appeal judges ruled that segregating boys from girls in a mixed school constitutes unlawful sex discrimination. The case...

Teresa May has just announced a freeze on the level of student university fees, while also raising the threshold at which the student loan debt mus...

Some commentators have judged a degree in philosophy to be `the most useless degree one can study for.` The number of students choosing to take thi...

We are living in a world of ever increasing automation. This isn`t to say that technology is becoming a more integral part of our lives - that woul...

The Latin word for being `left handed` is Sinestro - a term which hardly carries complementary connotations. The early ancient Greek word for left...

Of course every parent knows their child is special. Sometimes other people don`t see just how perfect their little one is. Even teachers can fail...

Survey Shows Four out of five primary school children do not get recommended amount of exercise

Public Health England, an executive agency o...

It has just been announced that teachers will have their pay capped to a 1% rise this year. Given that (as of April 2017) inflation stands at 2.6%,...

Danemill Primary School in Enderby, Leicestershire, has recently announced that it will shortening its working week, closing at lunchtime every Fri...

With UK university graduates now enjoying the highest amount of debt in the world - an average of £44,000 - it is becoming increasingly prudent to...

Students have always sought new ways to cheat in exams. Ever since we have been testing them, making them sit quietly in lines of little desks, too...

In the 1970`s a number of different theories relating to learning and knowledge acquisition were proposed. The uniting characteristic of these theo...

What is the ideal class size? Thirty seems to have become the normal number of pupils - but could this be too high, and even prove an impediment to...

From this summer the new GCSE grading system will be introduced. This will replace the traditional A* - G grades numbers: one through to nine, with...

When I was a primary school student, back in the 1980`s, lessons in IT were nothing more than an hour a week being taught very basic word processin...

Ofsted have announced that they plan to look at the social media sites of pupils and their parents to monitor whether the standards at their school...

Are school uniforms an overly authoritarian constriction on children`s identities? Straight jacks for their free self expression? Or are they a way...

Mp`s vote against Compulsory Sex Education in Schools

As the Law in Great Britain currently stands all state schools are required to cover th...

Many people will not be familiar with the PISA ranking system. With so many acronyms in the education sector - GCSEs OFCOM, etc - most have probabl...

The AQA - assessment and qualifications alliance - announced in October that it would be removing both A-level and AS level Archeology from the syl...

The GCSE qualification is about to undergo a huge change as of August 2017. The changes relate to a new grading system as well as alteration to the...

The topic of grammar schools has always been a contentious one - by having what is effectively an entrance exam, do they pave a privileged path for...