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Financially Struggling Universities to be Bailed Out, Says Labour
We have all heard the slogan `Too big to fail` - the assertion that certain institutions, primarily financial ones, are so interconnected and vital...

Four Year Old Children Risk Falling Behind
The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has revealed, in report published last month, that a quarter of early years teachers possess no qualifications...

On-site Accommodation for Teachers
Rules may be relaxed permitting schools to build on-site accommodation for teachers
There are indications that certain planning regulations...

Are Unconditional Offers a blessing or a curse?
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...

More than half of teachers still haven`t received their promised pay rise
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 equipment that`s now consigned to the history books
Teaching methods have of course altered dramatically over the centuries, but perhaps the last 50 years have marked the most significant changes in...

School Reports Not Telling the Truth for Fear of Angering Parents

The End of Philosophy - and it`s all for Profit
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...

Ofsted May Soon Give Schools Just Over 2 hours Notice
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...

Poor Literacy Skills Amongst Schoolchildren
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...

New 2 Year Degrees Will Save Time and Money
A series of new government proposals could allow degrees to be completed in only 2 years. Any universities offering these accelerated degree course...

Government Willing to Bail Out Some Universities
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...

Making Lessons too Enjoyable Can Inhibit Learning
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...

Working Hours for UK Teachers
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...

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

Schools excluding pupils to protect their ranking in league tables
I attended a well known school that was acclaimed for its consistant high standing in academic league tables. It boasted impressive figures that pr...

30 year old pupil reported to the Home Office

Positive Link Between Literary Activity and Mental Health
New research from the National Literacy Trust (NLT) charity has made a strong case for a positive link between literary activity and mental health....

Six Ways to Start the School Year Like a Champ
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...

What Options Does a Student Have After GCSE`s
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...

England`s Schools Facing a Severe Teacher Shortage
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
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...

Pay Rise for Teachers
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...

Huge Surge in School Expulsions
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...

Minecraft is Bringing Literary Worlds to Children
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...

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

UK Childminders
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...

Most Students Say No to Drugs in Favour of Study
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...

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

Emojis Help Children Understand Shakespeare
Teachers are turning to Emojis to help children understand Shakespeare
A growing number of teachers are using emojis as a tool to help thei...

Ban on Watches
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
`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
University Fees - are they making higher education a privilege only the affluent can afford?
Should education be free? Is education a rig...

Vocabulary Deficiency
Students afflicted by a `Vocabulary deficiency` say UK teachers
A report commissioned by the Oxford University Press has found that many sc...

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

Children Swiping Pages of Real Books
Children distressed that they can`t swipe the pages of real books
There are numerous reports from teachers at receptions schools and nurser...

Turn Off the Music
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...

Attacks on Teachers Has Reached Shocking Levels
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...

Make Reading the Focus of World Book Day
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...

Start Exams From a Younger Age
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?
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...

Pupils Must Be Taught How To Make and Use Apps
The former Work and Pensions Minister Damian Hinds has been appointed the new Education Secretary, after Justin Greening resigned earlier this mont...

Choosing a Primary School
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...

Cheating Using Mobile Phones
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...

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

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

Many Reception Shildren Can Not Sit Properly
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 Regulations
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...

Can Video Games Help Students Learn?
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...

Emojis Could Soon be Appearing on Certificates
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...

Robots, Virtual Reality, and the Future of Education
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...

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

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

Some Good News Concerning Tuition Fees
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...

The Value of Studying Philosophy
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...

The Thoughtless Age
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...

Five Year High in University Clearing Figures

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...
