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Four steps that will help students improve their exam technique
One of the consolations of adulthood is not having to sit any more exams. With that in mind we should all spare a thought for the millions of schoo...

Helping your child through the difficult exam period
Once again exam season is upon us. In just a few weeks more than a million students will sit their GCSE`s, AS and A-levels. The exams begin in May,...

Ofsted - its history and current practices
Many people will know Ofsted as an institution which assesses the quality of our schools, inspecting them at regular periods, and providing judgeme...

ChatGPT - a blessing or a curse for today`s students?
Most people will now be aware of ChatGPT, which was launched to an astonished public on November 30th 2022. An immediate sensation, within less tha...

Educational settings to help your students learn
Every tutor has encountered moments when they can`t inspire their students, times during lessons when they simply can`t engender their interest, no...

The New Schools White Paper, and the 2030 targets for the Education sector
A new year is auspicious for all institutions, but for the education sector 2023 may well prove to be the year where a number of important and long...

Tablets - the modern teaching aid
Tablets are devices hugely popular amongst children, with even babies taking to them naturally, finding the touch screen easy and instinctive to us...

What is dyscalculia, and what help can be given to those with the condition?
Not as well known as dyslexia, dyscalculia is a disability that leads to an impaired capacity to understand a variety of number-related concepts. S...

New subjects that may be taught in the future
The subjects taught in classrooms have varied greatly over the years. While mathematics and english have been taught consistently over the centurie...

Five benefits of studying a foreign language
Native English speakers are in many ways extremely fortunate. English is generally considered to be the world`s language (though it may one day los...

Working to your full potential during the winter season
With summer now a distant memory, and the days becoming noticeably shorter, no one can deny that winter is fast approaching. The darker, colder eve...

Changing bad study habits
Perhaps the greatest impediment to academic success is not lack of intelligence, but rather a lack of will to face the work at hand. Every student...

Would later school start times lead to better results for teens?
I recall as a student how difficult I always found it to get up for school. The first few lessons would be spent in a somnolent daze, barely recept...

Helping children get back into their school routine
Many children may have become used to the long summer break, and may be struggling to get back into a good working routine now school has begun. Wi...

Tips to help children get back into the school routine
Back to school - three words that strike terror and despair into the hearts and minds of children across the country. Three words, which like a mag...

How to deal with the anxiety of waiting for exam results
This is an anxious time of year for thousands of students all across the country. Many may well feel as if their futures have already been decided,...

Head of Ucas warns A-Level results day will not be`pain free`
With A-Level results due next week, there are fears that this year`s round of admissions could well be `the hardest in living memory.` There is a c...

Techniques to improve your essay writing
Essay writing is an important part of virtually any course. Whether you are studying the sciences or the humanities, you will most likely have to w...

The eight different styles of learning
The American developmental psychologist Howard Earl Gardner proposed that humans have a number of different ways of acquiring information. His `The...

The most common mistakes made by students
Teachers and tutors often see their pupils repeating the same mistakes. Very often these mistakes are relatively minor, and don`t represent any sig...

New study shows teaching reading using phonics is `failing children`
You may have heard quite a lot about `phonics` over the last decade. If you have a child in early years foundation stage (EYFS) or primary school y...

Treat early years staff `like Educators` says Early Years Alliance
This week is Childcare and Early Education Week, an annual event set up to increase awareness of the amazing work done by those working in the earl...

Is it time to adopt a four day school week?
Most schools and workplaces across the world operate according to a five day working week. Certainly there are exceptions to this schedule - retail...

What will teaching and learning be like in the future?
Trying to ascertain just how much you learnt in a year is a difficult problem. Knowledge does not easily categorise itself, for it is rather a blen...

The benefits of outdoor learning
We are all so accustomed to the classroom (or rooms in general) being the accepted venue of teaching, it`s easy to overlook how beneficial outdoor...

Encouraging your child to learn at home
If you ask your child where they go to learn they will most likely look at you rather quizzically, before answering `school of course.` Certainly o...

Five techniques to help students reach their full potential
Those students who go on to achieve the highest grades are not necessarily the most intelligent in their peer group. Possessing a precocious IQ is...

How long does it take to reach grade one on the piano?
How much time will it take a new music student to reach grade one on the piano? This is a question very often asked by new students coming to the i...

Study tips to help you through the chills of the cold season
Winter is almost here. The days are becoming shorter, and there is a definite chill in the air. Inclement weather hardly encourages diligent and co...

Mathematics: there`s no escaping it, but it doesn`t have to be dreaded
For many people mathematics is simply a loathsome subject. They may have got along fine with it during primary school, but once they got to seconda...

Should teachers be learning from the way piano lessons are given?
Do students learn piano pieces in the same manner they study academically? Is there anything an A-level student can learn from the way a concert pi...

Which subjects provide the best all round education?
If education does indeed `set us free,` according to the old adage, which subjects should we choose to study to make the most of this liberty? Whic...

A-Level results - record number of high grades awarded
A-level results have just been published, and almost half of all students have been awarded an A or A*. If anyone thought the pandemic might have n...

How much should I charge for tutoring?
One of the most common questions we get asked by new tutors is how much should they be charging their students. The answer we always give is a simp...

Why study art?
In our technology driven economy, many people might wonder at the purpose of studying art. What does a student have to gain by studying such a subj...

How to select the right tutor with Tutor Hunt
With more tutors registered with Tutor Hunt than perhaps any other tuition company, you are certain to find the right teacher for yourself or your...

Chess
The game of chess has its roots in India. As far back as the 7th century a similar game was being played, and from there it spread to Persia. With...

Does Tutor Hunt only offer academic subjects?
Private tuition has become increasingly popular over the last few years. Whatever your academic abilities, booking the services of a private tutor...

How to learn a foreign language using Tutor Hunt
How babies acquire a language is a total mystery, for they seem to simply soak up the speech patterns of their environment without any systematic t...

How to get an enhanced DBS through Tutor Hunt
A DBS check allows an individual to prove they possess no criminal convictions. Formally known by the acronym CRB, or criminal record bureau, the D...

How to cope with exam stress
Fear of exams affects every student to a certain degree. The months and months of build up, along with a growing apprehension of just how important...

How to motivate students to learn maths
In many ways mathematics is the `problem subject` in the curriculum. No other subject seems to draw so much dislike, so much disdain, than mathemat...

Top five benefits of tuition
What are the benefits of hiring a private tutor for yourself or your child? What could lessons with a tutor provide that schoolteachers cannot? The...

Another Grading debacle for GCSE`s and A-Levels
Many teachers are raising concerns over how GCSE and A-Level grades will be awarded this year. With repeated lockdowns and school closures, and so...

How to Book lessons on Tutor Hunt
Since we started our company back in 2005 - wow has it really been that long? - Tutor Hunt has helped thousands of students with their academic wor...

How to get back into a good work routine
Not only are we coming out of a long and cold winter, we are also preparing to emerge from the most protracted and difficult lockdown of this pande...

With exams cancelled how will students be graded this year?
Since neither GCSE, A-Level, or As level exams will be taking place this summer, how will students` grades be calculated? The Department for Educat...

What is a digital detox, and should you have one?
You have probably heard of people choosing to detox from alcohol, `dry January` being a well known period of abstinence undertaken by many who wish...

Jaime Escalante
The story of Jaime Escalante is one of a dedicated and passionate teacher, fighting to change the prospects of `troubled` and `unteachable` student...

Creating the right workspace
A desk is more than just a piece of furniture: it is a functional workspace that can either facilitate industry and study, or inhibit it. When seat...

Maria Montessori - the radical and pioneering teacher
Many will have heard of the Montessori Method of Education, which encourages hands on learning and directed play, but few people probably know much...

Online library created to provide free books during school closures
The Oak National academy, working in partnership with the National Literacy Trust, has created a wonderful resource to help thousands of children a...

Are we at the beginning of an educational revolution?
The last year, for obvious reasons, has seen a huge increase in pupils receiving online lessons. Even though the technology to provide classes over...

Happy new year to everyone
As 2020 has now come to an end many people will be feeling a sense of a relief. With the spring weather ahead, and the prospect of an effective vac...

Handwriting your study notes facilitates memory and understanding
When I was a schoolboy back in the late 1960`s each class contained no less than thirty five pupils, and we sat in pairs at wooden desks. These des...

Machine learning - what can it offer the education sector?
Someone hearing about machine learning for the first time might imagine a robot at the front of a classroom, delivering the lesson in a tinny voice...

How to ensure the cold season doesn`t impact your studies
Winter is almost upon us, and for many people that means snuggling up indoors with a warm, fortifying snack and comforting drink. With the days get...

Lockdown has caused a `shocking` decline in primary children`s abilities
The Corona virus pandemic has affected every part of society - but the education sector may well prove to be the hardest hit. When all this disrupt...

Homework and establishing a good routine
When is the best time for a child to start their homework? Perhaps the very moment they get in from school they should begin, so they can have the...

Teaching aids to overcome a fear of mathematics
Ask any adult what their least favourite subject at school was, and the most common answer you will probably get is mathematics. Why exactly this s...

Some distinctive British school uniforms
Children have been required to wear school uniforms at least as far back as the era of Henry VIII, when numerous charity schools were set up with t...

Compulsory Subjects - and those no longer studied
The national curriculum includes a wide range of subjects, with English, maths, science, and physical education being amongst the subjects compulso...

A Level Results 2020 - A Fiasco or a Fair Assessment?
There is of course no good time for a pandemic, but for the many thousands of students who would have sat their A-Levels and GCSE`s in June, the ev...

What items pupils take to school has greatly changed over the years
Back when I was a primary school pupil the one thing, besides our text books, that we had to ensure we brought to school, was our own pen with a su...

The Importance of Playtime for Children
Evidence strongly suggests that when children are playing they are actually learning a range of different skills and abilities. Through play childr...

The best instruments for a child`s musical development
Humans are naturally musical, with all cultures using music for enjoyment and relaxation, while also making use of it ceremonially, in birthdays an...

One in five children have stopped almost all schoolwork during Lockdown
Research carried out by the UCL institute of education has found that more than two million children have done virtually no schoolwork of any kind...

Some Recommended Books for 9 - 11 Year Olds
In 2015 Booktrust, the UK`s largest reading charity, compiled a list of the one hundred best children`s books written over the last century. In pre...

Some Great Books for 6 - 8 Year Olds
Continuing with the series of the best books for children according to a list complied by booktrust, the UK`s largest reading charity, here are a s...

Books to read to babies, toddlers and preschoolers
The importance of reading to a child is universally acknowledged. Books not only teach sentence structure, grammar, and vocabulary, but they allow...

Will online content replace textbooks?
When I was a pupil at school the beginning of a new academic year typically meant being issued a new set of textbooks. The teacher would call each...

Schools urged to prioritise playtime when schools reopen
All over the world countries are making steps to release their populations from the corona virus lockdown, with governments having to make the diff...

Schools will have to open to end the lockdown
No one is certain when schools will be reopening, but with each passing day it seems more probable that pupils will not be returning to classes unt...

The benefits of becoming an online tutor
There has never been a better time to become an online tutor. With most of the country enjoying a reliable and fast internet connection, the days o...

Becoming an online tutor
There has never been a greater demand for online tuition. With schools across much of the world closed, and with lockdown procedures in place, face...

Innovative lessons perfectly suited for the home
Easter holidays may be just beginning, but for the vast majority of students across the country this will be the third week they have been at home...

Popular and longstanding reference books
Wikipedia is by far the most popular internet resource site. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, the prefix wiki is Hawaiian for `qui...

A level and GCSE grades to be calculated according to predicted grades, mock exams, and coursework
The corona virus pandemic has caused disorder across all five continents. Besides the great and tragic loss of life, every sector of the economy ha...

Unusual courses offered at universities
Students today can enjoy a wide range of subjects that would have been the envy of earlier generations. Early universities taught natural philosoph...

Celebrating world book day
World book day is a literary event that`s celebrated annually across the world on the 23rd of April. Also known as World Book and Copyright Day, or...

Ways to keep students learning if schools are closed
I doubt even a single day passes at any school with every pupil in attendance, but what would happen if the majority of pupils, or even all of them...

Scientific ways to improve your studying
There are tried and tested methods to improve a whole list of activities. You can attend clinics to monitor and improve your sleep, and you can fol...

Second wave of university strikes to affect millions of students
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...

What are the top five education resources of the last 40 years?
Everyone knows that the printing press is the most important invention - it has almost become passé to point out how it facilitated the disseminat...

Which are the ten most educated countries in the world?
Every year the OECD - the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, an intergovernmental economic organisation containing 36 member c...

Class sizes on the rise in most secondary schools
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...

Five academic resolutions for students this new year
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...

The five things each child needs to bring to school
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...

My four favourite children`s books
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...

Homeschooling on the increase
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...

New research finds that `Good-looking` pupils get better grades
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...

Students given unconditional offers by universities are more likely...
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...

Majority of teachers favour pupils missing school to partake...
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...

Illiteracy at 90% for 10 year olds living in the World`s poorest Countries
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...

Parents banned from using mobile phones
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...

UK has the youngest teaching workforce in the developed World
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...

English Language GCSE may be scrapped

Things parents should never tell students on results day
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...

Primary school pupils taught t`ai chi to combat exam stress
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...

Students choosing to take a gap year after graduation
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...

Are Teachers suffering during the long summer holidays?
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...

Rising rental costs leads to students struggling to pay bills
Most students leaving home to study at university will spend their first year living on campus. This is accommodation on university grounds, with s...

Schools closing early for the weekend to save money
s most people are aware we are still suffering through austerity, with significant cuts to most public sectors, including the police force, and the...

Teach Children About Finances
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...

Encourage children to read for fun
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...

Another A-Level Maths paper leaked just before exam
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...

Many deaf students considering dropping out of University
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...

Schools turn the volume down on classical music
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
Ofsted`s suggestion to overcoming exam anxiety: don`t tell children they are actually taking a test.
Examinophobia, the fear of taking ex...

Exams are approaching - top 5 revision tips
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...

Parents of every child in primary school class boycott sats tests
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...

Growing scarcity of older Teachers in Schools
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...

Almost 50,000 children leave school without any explanation
The Education Policy Institute, a think tank based in Westminster, has just released research that suggests almost 50,000 children have disappeared...

Teachers urged to take good care of their most important teaching tool:
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...

OFSTED grades are misleading, and often inaccurate
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...

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

Booking a holiday? don`t incur a fine by making your child miss school
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...

Autistic pupil left with no school place for 12 months
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...

Should all exams be taken and submitted using computers?
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...

Teachers top the list for unpaid overtime
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...

PISA chief says there is no purpose in teaching children how to code
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...

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...

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...

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...

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