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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
February 12, 2009Smart table heading for UK schools
The Smart table is a device that as the title explains a table with a built in monitor that points vertically like an old video game table.
These Smart table’s will be appearing in UK classrooms sometime in the spring, this release is earlier than first expected and may have an effect on the schools budgets, [...]
Studying in the UK
For overseas students studying in the UK is the first option, this is because that the education gained in the UK is of the highest quality and the qualifications are worth something no matter where you go in the world.
Currently it is estimated that students from around a hundred and eighty different countries are studying [...]
New school opened by Fiona Hyslop
As part of the council in South Ayrshire’s £76 million Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiative, the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Fiona Hyslop MSP took time out her busy day to open a new £9.2 million school.
The Alloway Primary School had been completely knocked down, before being rebuilt from scratch into a state [...]
Did school swap work?
The other day the BBC2 programme Newsnight did a social experiment to see how pupils from an average secondary school got on when they went to top public school Wellington College, the idea was to try and make these kids realise that there is more to life.
However, do these schemes ever make any difference; there [...]
Learning at home in the UK
Currently there are around a hundred and fifty thousand children in the UK who are being educated at home; this amount has increased three fold since 1999.
The reasons for the rise are varied, it could be because the parents are unhappy with the child’s progress at school, the child may be bored which leads to [...]
Teachers get compensation
Teachers in Scotland were paid out £180,000 in compensation claims during 2008 according to the Scottish teachers union, the EIS. The largest payout was to a teacher who fell off of a step ladder, he received £35,000.
However, there were also payments of up to £15,000 for teachers who got involved in breaking up fights between [...]
Websites to get ratings
Is it possible that websites could end up getting an age rating system that is meant to protect children from accessing websites that are not suitable for their age, according to the Culture Secretary Andy Burnham?
There is no doubt that the internet contains some nasty material, but in most cases, this takes so serious searching [...]
School pregnancies increase after sex education
There has always been a question mark that hangs over the whole area of sex education, one theory is that it you tell them too much about the subject then they are likely to go out and try it, especially as an expert has told them about all of the safety measure that are in [...]
December 8, 2008Student gets degree in two years
A teenager is about to graduate from the university of Texas, nothing strange about that, but in this there is.
Andrew Brisbin was just fourteen when he started at the North Central College and went onto the university just a year later, now aged just sixteen he is about to graduate with a bachelor’s degree [...]
Further education with help from the internet
In just a few short years the internet has change virtually facets of our lives, there is hardly nothing that cannot be done online and one of the main winners of the internet age is education. This means that no longer do we have to physically go to a college in order to get on [...]
November 25, 2008Is education the world currency?
We all know of the famous education dropouts who went on to become either very famous, rich or in some cases both, but what about those people who did not have the “Big Idea” and had to carry on to finish their studies.
These students put in time and money to complete their education and yet [...]
Weighing up the cost of college
Normally you would have thought that the best and at the same time most expensive colleges would enable the student upon qualification would then be able to get themselves a much better job than those students who went to a different college.
However, according to research this is not necessarily the case, because despite the [...]
University is not for everyone
Is there a status of going to university or are there students and families of students who are making the fact that their children have gone or are going to university making this into a status symbol?
This question arises every now and then where people it is where the children of parents are pushed into [...]
Schools to get holocaust teachers
Every secondary school in the UK will be getting their own Holocaust specialist; they will ensure that this sensitive subject is taught correctly, in depth and in a sensitive manner.
These specialists will already be teaching in the schools and will be offered a place on the government’s new £1.5 million institute of education scheme. Around [...]