Religious education is being undermined by a “crippling ambivalence” towards the subject in state schools, according to research published today.
Lessons are increasingly dying out because of a decline in the amount of time, money and resources devoted to the traditional discipline, it is claimed. Continue reading
Profit-making firms are making hundreds of millions of pounds from the state education system, according to new research.
Companies are being allowed to generate substantial returns by running nurseries, units for expelled pupils and management and IT services for mainstream schools, it is claimed. Continue reading
More teenagers will fail their GCSEs and A-levels after a radical toughening of the examinations system, the Education Secretary declared yesterday. Continue reading
World renowned professor; John Hattie, talks about his findings from his Visible Learning project. The work encompassed the experiences of over 80 million students across the English-speaking world and took 15 years to complete. Continue reading
Ofsted head Michael Wilshaw’s comment that 5,000 headteachers lack leadership comes at a time when it is already proving difficult to recruit heads due to a ‘football manager mentality’. Continue reading
Parents give their views on the role of an education secretary and who they think would have been the best suited to the role from past and present. Continue reading
The introduction of performance bands for primary schools has been delayed until 2014 by the Welsh government. The delay will allow time for the introduction of new reading and numeracy tests, says Education Minister Leighton Andrews. Continue reading
The power of head teachers to allow families to take holidays in term time is set to be axed by Education Secretary Michael Gove. Charlie Taylor, the schools’ adviser brought in after last year’s riots, has convinced Mr Gove that a hard-line must be taken. Continue reading
Trevor Averre-Beeson says for-profit firms are more focused on improving a school than a new headteacher would be. For-profit companies should be brought in to help improve hundreds of under-performing state schools, according to the former headteacher of an inner-city comprehensive. Continue reading
Education secretary says Equality Act does not extend to school curriculum – allowing faith schools to use homophobic material. Michael Gove, the education secretary, is at the centre of an escalating row over how faith schools discuss homosexuality in sex education classes. Continue reading
Life on Earth is mind-blowing, but it’s not all good news. Our blogger on the pros and cons of Apple digital text books and iBooks Author. Continue reading
Rising birth rates and immigration sees a growing shortage of classroom places. Thousands more young children will have to be taught in temporary buildings, converted sheds and even former shops because of an increasing shortage of primary school places, the Government was warned last night. Continue reading
Children who can speak 50 words or fewer at age two may benefit from early language therapy, say researchers. Simple vocabulary tests on children as young as two can identify those who will find it difficult to learn language and lag behind their peers in becoming fluent. Continue reading
It is essential for the health of our society, and a measure of its health, that bright children, regardless of background, have access to top universities. While the kerfuffle over the latest “Vince’ll fix it” initiative has been playing out, whereby top universities will be bullied into taking under-qualified students on the basis of their disadvantage rather than their results, the Sutton Trust has been cooking up a plot of its own. Continue reading
Poorer parents are being let down by some “short-sighted” schools that are encouraging them to sign up for free dinners to gain extra Government funding, campaigners suggested today. Continue reading
MPs have set up a new group to safeguard the teaching of religious education to pupils in England.
The all party parliamentary group on RE wants the subject to be treated as a priority. Continue reading
A new national plan for cultural education in schools – covering everything from archaeology to dance to the visual arts – is to be drawn up by the government, a national arts conference was told on Tuesday. Continue reading
A key reason why boys lag behind in the classroom is revealed for the first time today – female teachers.
Ground-breaking research shows that boys lower their sights if they think their work is going to be marked by a woman because they believe their results will be worse. Continue reading
Schools in England which fail inspections usually go on to improve, a study suggests.
Research published by the London School of Economics found that test scores improved at schools which had been failed by Ofsted inspectors. Continue reading
Thousands of British schoolchildren are to be given lessons in resilience amid claims they have gone “soft” and fail to cope with failure, it has emerged. Continue reading
