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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...