http://www.educationroadmap.co.uk Education Weblog round-up: News from the world of teaching and training Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:16:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.educationroadmap.co.uk/331-pupils-to-get-educated-on-gypsies.html 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 ... http://www.educationroadmap.co.uk/329-pupils-to-be-taught-how-to-think.html 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 ... http://www.educationroadmap.co.uk/327-women-out-perform-men-at-uni.html 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 ... http://www.educationroadmap.co.uk/325-teachers-reluctant-to-comfort-children.html 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 ... http://www.educationroadmap.co.uk/323-the-benefits-of-homework.html 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 ... http://www.educationroadmap.co.uk/321-database-of-school-children-launched.html 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, ... http://www.educationroadmap.co.uk/319-maths-could-be-fun.html 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 ... http://www.educationroadmap.co.uk/317-choosing-a-college-what-to-look-for.html 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 ... http://www.educationroadmap.co.uk/315-managers-ruining-the-system.html 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 ... http://www.educationroadmap.co.uk/313-boys-made-worse-at-english-by-girls.html