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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Girls 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 [...]
TV could be good for under three’s
A study that followed around eight hundred children from birth to three years old, has been tracking their TV usage in order to determine once and for all whether TV is any good for children or is it just a bad influence.
After previous studies it was even recommended that up to the age of [...]
School to teach about same sex relationships
Literature about same sex relationships is being used in schools to explain and educate the children on this type of lifestyle, however although there has been some positive responses to this plan, there has also been concerns aired about what age if any children should be exposed to this type of material.
The general feeling is, [...]
Parents should avoid the rights and wrongs of sex booklet
Sex education is always going to be a concern for parents; some may think that schools teach them too early, whereas there are other parents who believe their children have been taught about the birds and bees too late.
There is a booklet being made available through pharmacies called “Talking to Your Teenager About Sex and [...]
Mothers help kids to be better at school
Something that many people could have told us is that the children who grow up in a situation where affection and care comes as a matter course are in fact more likely to develop better standard of intelligence than those who grow up in a situation without.
Following tests that were done on chimpanzees it was [...]
Smart 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, [...]