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EHRC has launched a new online education resource for secondary school teachers aimed at helping the teaching of equality and human rights issues...
Posted on 30/09/2011 - [Read More...]
Primary school teachers still have work to do in improving literacy and numeracy attainment levels with figures published by the DfE showing over 100,000 seven-year-olds are not able to write at their predicted level...
Posted on 30/09/2011 - [Read More...]
Focus shifts to standard of teaching and pupil behaviour as school inspection system gets major overhaul by education watchdog Ofsted...
Posted on 30/09/2011 - [Read More...]
The Welsh Assembly is to conduct a major review of the Welsh qualifications system in the hope of simplifying it and making qualifications more valuable and relevant...
Posted on 29/09/2011 - [Read More...]
Four teaching unions have agreed to work together in their campaigns to help strengthen the voice they offer to teachers across the UK...
Posted on 28/09/2011 - [Read More...]
Mathematics teachers need clearer guidelines from the government to improve the standard of maths education pupils get, one expert has said....
Posted on 27/09/2011 - [Read More...]
Primary school teaching assistant in Chester wins national award in recognition of her work...
Posted on 27/09/2011 - [Read More...]
A report by Ofqual, the examinations watchdog, has found that English Literature A-level exams got easier in certain areas between 2005 and 2009...
Posted on 26/09/2011 - [Read More...]
ICT skills are increasingly important for new teaching jobs with 50 per cent of all learning time in schools now involves computers according to a new report...
Posted on 26/09/2011 - [Read More...]
A leading authority has called on the government to intensify the recruitment drive for quality science and mathematics teachers to maintain growth in students taking the subjects...
Posted on 23/09/2011 - [Read More...]
A report published today claims that far from achieving better in exams, students educated in single-sex schools are actually more likely to be sexist and believe in gender stereotypes...
Posted on 23/09/2011 - [Read More...]
A new report by education inspector Ofsted has revealed that federated schools are improving across the board, offering an ideal place for graduates to get their first teaching job...
Posted on 22/09/2011 - [Read More...]
At the Liberal Democrat party conference, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is to propose a two-week summer school for 11-year-olds falling behind in education...
Posted on 21/09/2011 - [Read More...]
The government has announced plans to extend free early years education to two-year-olds from disadvantaged backgrounds as part of a drive to help reduce inequality in education...
Posted on 20/09/2011 - [Read More...]
Research in Spain has shown that primary school children who get less than nine hours of sleep a night are not as likely to have academic success as children sleeping for longer...
Posted on 19/09/2011 - [Read More...]
A campaign has been launched by some of the top scientists in the UK which aims to get creationism removed entirely from teaching in science classrooms...
Posted on 19/09/2011 - [Read More...]
Education secretary Michael Gove has announced the government is to give teachers new powers to combat badly behaved students who disrupt others' education...
Posted on 16/09/2011 - [Read More...]
From next summer all primary school teachers at state schools in England will have to conduct one-to-one reading tests with their year one pupils...
Posted on 16/09/2011 - [Read More...]
Charged with developing and improving teacher training in under-performing schools, the first 100 teaching schools began their new roles this week...
Posted on 15/09/2011 - [Read More...]
A Commons Select Committee has published the findings of its inquiry into science education, reporting that the practical lessons and field trips essential to developing scientists of the future are being ignored because of health and safety concerns...
Posted on 14/09/2011 - [Read More...]
The government has removed bureaucratic control over the school day by giving teachers and heads the power to change school times as they see fit....
Posted on 13/09/2011 - [Read More...]
A study into disadvantaged children who achieved educational success despite having disadvantaged beginnings has won an 'article of the year' award...
Posted on 13/09/2011 - [Read More...]
A government think-tank has recommended that parents refusing to take action over their children's disruptive behaviour at school should have their benefits withdrawn...
Posted on 12/09/2011 - [Read More...]
Allowing parents to pay online for their children's school meals could help to boost take-up, it has been suggested....
Posted on 09/09/2011 - [Read More...]
Being separated during the school day can give both boys and girls greater self-esteem, it has been claimed. ...
Posted on 09/09/2011 - [Read More...]
Children and teenagers are more likely to concentrate and behave better after eating a healthy school meal, it has been claimed....
Posted on 08/09/2011 - [Read More...]
Learning sums by heart will not necessarily make children any better at maths, it has been suggested....
Posted on 07/09/2011 - [Read More...]
Thousands of British children do not worship collectively a school, despite the fact that legislation requires this....
Posted on 06/09/2011 - [Read More...]
Boys tend to be more practical than girls and need a more kinaesthetic way of learning, it has been claimed....
Posted on 05/09/2011 - [Read More...]
Michael Gove has called for more to be done to help those students falling through the cracks of the education system....
Posted on 02/09/2011 - [Read More...]