Pupils to get educated on gypsies
Pupils in the west midlands are to be taught about the alternative lifestyle that gypsies have chosen to live. This will be spearheaded through the gypsy awareness month and followed up by a leaflet that goes by the title “Myth Busting”.
Education officials have put together a forty page report that explains why the gypsy community [...]
Pupils to be taught how to think
In an attempt to make the adults of tomorrow better thinkers and debaters, the government are planning to introduce a new style of subject aimed to teach pupils the difference between a valid argument and a rant.
The lessons will cover many controversial subjects such as the existence of UFO’s, life after death and the reasons [...]
Women out perform men at Uni
It’s been a long coming but recent research has found that women are now doing considerably better than their male counterparts at university are.
The study compiled by the Higher Education Policy Institute shows that places at the top universities are likely to go to women, who are going on to get better grades too.
This [...]
Teachers reluctant to comfort children
Not having any contact is difficult for teachers, especially those involved in the primary school area. They will often see a child who is upset for one reason or another, but this is a situation where even the slightest hand on the shoulder can be seen as something else.
It seems that the best thing a [...]
The benefits of homework
When it comes to homework there are different views as whether this is good for the children or not, there have been many studies made, but still there is no definitive answer as to whether or not the children benefit from homework.
There some arguments that homework can be just as good for the parents as [...]
Database of School children launched
The government plans to produce a database of every child of school age has become a reality, for the first time professionals throughout the UK will be able to gain access to the database, which is supposed to prevent many of the awful child abuses cases that have come to the attention of the media [...]
May 18, 2009Maths could be fun
With the exam season picking up speed there is one subject that always strikes fear in students and its maths. Yet according to a recent study, maths can actually be fun if only it was taught properly.
This announcement follows claims that thousands of students are leaving school each year, unable to make even the [...]
Choosing a college, what to look for
When it gets to that time when the school pupil becomes a college student there are many questions that need to be asked, and it is not necessarily to do with the students chosen subject.
There are many things that the student and their families should be taking into account; these can range from distance from [...]
Managers ruining the system
There are plenty of people who could take the blame for the problems associated with education the prime candidates being the government, teachers, parents and of course pupils. However, are any of these really to blame or is there somebody else.
It seems that over the past ten years or so the rise of the faceless [...]
Boys made worse at English by girls
For years, there have been claims that mixed classes do worse than single sex classes, but up until now, there has been no definitive study made into whether or not there is any truth in these claims.
But now there is some solid research that actually confirms these claims, according to a research student at Bristol [...]
Students see’s African orphanage and buys it
It is very popular for students to take some time out before or after their they go to university, this would normally mean them working with a charitable organisation and travelling to a third world country and help out by working in some manner to make the lives of the people better.
However, it is not [...]
Malaria campaign after teacher’s death
Harry Yirrell worked as a teaching assistant in a small fishing village in Ghana, this was a volunteer position, which shows the type of person he was. What ’s more, instead of taking his malaria medication he chose to hand it over to the people of the village, thinking that they needed it more than [...]
April 16, 2009Education may not affect loss of memory
There are several ideas about how education affects the risk of memory loss and other problems such as Alzheimer’s disease, the general opinion used to be that the better educated the person is the less chance there is of someone getting these problems.
However, it seems that according to recent research that this may not be [...]
Education abroad
Just when is the best to move abroad when you have a young family? There are plenty of options available for parents when it comes to education, but often this may end up coming down to cost, which is a difficult subject these days.
The general opinion is the earlier the better, but not everyone can [...]
Schools taught about Twittering
Changes to the education system could see that lessons in history covering the second world war could be replaced at some point by lessons on how the micro blogging site Twitter works.
These changes will affect primary schools with a serious move for schools to teach about the inner workings of the internet and in particular [...]
Ten online learning tools
There was a time when the internet was predominantly used for educational purposes, but soon the commercial aspect got a grip and the rest is history.
However, for many people the internet can still be a place of learning and not necessarily in the conventional manner as there are many types of courses available online that [...]
The cost of going to University
Currently the tuition fees for going to university are £3,125 per year, these are set to rise next year to £3,225 per year. But if universities have it their way fees could rise to as much as £7,000 per year, in fact there are claims that a fee or £5,000 per year would not put [...]
March 19, 2009Girls are doing better than boys
Looking at the stats it would seem that girls are not doing better than boys, but when the stats are tweaked to use the results from girl only schools, then it is true girls are doing better than boys.
These results come from a study into education, it found that girls who attend single sex schools [...]
Study finds link between health and IQ
There are worrying test results coming out of Sweden, a test of one million Swedish males has found that there is a distinct link between those men who had higher IQ’s and their health.
However, the discovery is that those found with higher IQ’s were less likely to suffer from health related issues and that their [...]
Is gaming good for brain training?
We see adverts on the TV for so called brain training games that work with hand held devices; the claim is that anyone that uses these games will benefit from extra intelligence. Which begs the question, kids that play on video games should therefore be more intelligent?
However, in tests it has been found that these [...]