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Left Handed Children
The Latin word for being `left handed` is Sinestro - a term which hardly carries complementary connotations. The early ancient Greek word for left...
Early Signs That Your Child is Gifted
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...
Children Excercise
Survey Shows Four out of five primary school children do not get recommended amount of exercise
Public Health England, an executive agency o...
Teachers 1% Pay Cap
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%,...
School to Close at Lunchtime
Danemill Primary School in Enderby, Leicestershire, has recently announced that it will shortening its working week, closing at lunchtime every Fri...
The top 12 Degrees that will Secure you a Job
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...
Cheating in exams with technology
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...
Different Leaning styles
In the 1970`s a number of different theories relating to learning and knowledge acquisition were proposed. The uniting characteristic of these theo...
Class Sizes - too Big or too Small?
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...
GCSE Grading System
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...
Primary School Children Learn Computer Coding
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 Plans to Examine the Social Media Sites of Parents and Pupils
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...
School Uniforms
Are school uniforms an overly authoritarian constriction on children`s identities? Straight jacks for their free self expression? Or are they a way...
Mobile Phones in Schools
Technical T-Level Qualifications
Fast Track Degree
Is Latin Coming back
Body Cameras at Schools
Is University for everyone?
By the age of six Girls may be Intellectually Deferring to their Male Peers
Compulsory Sex Education in Schools
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...
Fake University Certificates
PISA Ranking
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...
Changes to the KS2 curriculum
Archeology
The AQA - assessment and qualifications alliance - announced in October that it would be removing both A-level and AS level Archeology from the syl...
GCSE Grading Changes
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...
Grammar Schools
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...
Private vs State schools
Academies
