Condoms banned from sex lessons
There was a time when children at high schools could get of hold as many condoms as they wanted during the sex education lessons that the schools provide, some people feel that this is good and some people feel that it is wrong.
Yet one school has decided that enough is enough, and while they will [...]
Pupils discover teacher is porn star!
This is probably a schools boys dream come true, imagine finding out that your teacher is a part time porn star! Well pupils at the privately run Stockport Grammar School, where the teacher works as an English teacher.
Apparently she had the part time modelling jobs when she was a student, and this was well before [...]
Three little pigs not PC
The government’s political correctness brigade have been up to their old tricks again, this time it concerns that old tale of the Three Little Pigs.
This story has been around for years and taught in schools and nurseries as one of the first stories that children learn, but it would seem that this may not be [...]
Don’t fall asleep
Most people at some stage must have simply nodded off during a lesson or lecture; it is any easy thing to do, especially on a warm afternoon. But as nobody really wants to get caught falling asleep during class, what can be done?
What to do when start to nod off:
If allowed, bring coffee, discreet snacks, [...]
Cost of textbooks spirals
As with many things, what happens in the US normally follows over here sooner or later, and as this applies to education and publishing, it will probably be sooner rather than later.
It seems that the price of text books have gone up by a massive 186% since 1986! This has caused all sorts of questions [...]
UK schools to say no to Vista
A decision has been made at last by the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) with regards to Microsoft’s Windows Vista and Office 2007 and how these products will fit into the education system in the UK.
As expected the report says no to these products, the main reason being how the products are sold [...]
School get PC pizza
Pupils at a school in a Yorkshire thought that their luck was in when they were asked to design a pizza; naturally anything that involves pizza has to be good through the eyes of child.
Unfortunately what they first thought was a great idea, soon turned out to be the worst pizza in the world. Because [...]
Real life for school kids
They used to say that your school days are the best days of your life, though I suspect that this must have been made up by a school teacher.
Life rules for school kids:
Rule #1. Life is not fair.
Rule #2. The real world won’t care as much about your self-esteem as your school does.
Rule #3. Sorry, [...]
Cheating in school
This has often been seen as a problem throughout the western world, and it is a practice where schools are cheating to gain greater pass rates in the school tests, the highest pass rates mean the school gets grants and other financial help.
So there is reasoning behind this, but still it has to be said [...]
Career advice should be neutral
Schools may soon be required to provide their pupils with impartial career advice, under new guidelines being discussed in the House of Commons.
This may seem like something that they would be doing anyhow, but many schools at the moment promote their own courses and different versions of qualifications. This follows a series of complaints [...]
Should schools use free software?
It would initially seem to be the obvious choice of schools to free software, it gives the school the freedom to use as many copies on as many computers as they want, which is something that cannot be done with a licensed brand.
Essentially it makes no difference what the status of the school is, there [...]
School reports available online
it looks as if the days of the school children bring home their school reports may be numbered as there are plans to make this sort information available online.
This would enable parents to access the site and check how their child is doing at school. It will not just be the school report that parents [...]
Bogus university found by BBC
A bogus university set up in Ireland named the Irish International University (IIU) has been the subject of a BBC investigation. The university has been able to continue recruiting students, giving them a sub standard education and finally awarding degrees that are virtually worthless.
However there are over five thousand registered students worldwide all of which [...]
Boy glues himself to bed
Going back to school after the long winter break when its cold and damp has always been a nightmare for many children, but never the less they still get going and after a couple of days are back into the old routine.
But for one child in Mexico, there is no bad weather, but he still [...]
Sex education should start at five
Sex education for children aged five, is what Dr Charles Saunders who is Chairman of the British Medical Associations Scottish consultants committee been preaching. He believes that schools are leaving it too late for the some children and this has had a direct effect on the understanding of pregnancy and safe sex.
However there are some [...]
Prank shuts down schools IT system
It just shows you how things can move very quickly on the net, when a bored student at the Big Spring High School in Pennsylvania, US, posted a hoax on a certain site named uploadgeek, innocent enough you may think, but this hoax got so many peoples backs up that what happened next no one [...]
January 2, 2008UK highest teenage pregnancy rate
It is a sad sign of the times that over 50,000 girls under the age of eighteen are becoming pregnant, this is the highest figure since a programme to educate teenage girls about this and how it can affect their lives, education and future.
These figures mean that the UK is at the top of the [...]