Last week, an installation at the Tate Modern museum in London was aimed at drawing attention to the challenges children in the modern world are facing. Questions about the centre of interest in the education system are asked. The main thought is whether to focus on improving Numeracy and Literacy skills over supporting Art skills. In […]
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Changes to benefit laws came into action last week and might push 200.000 families into poverty. The changes affect families with more than 2 children, where the third child from now on does not receive any money anymore. In particular, families who claim tax credits and Universal credit are affected. Overall, this will include 872.000
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Since Brexit was officially announced, Racism seems to become more and more tolerated within the British society. Verbally or physical assault against people from a different origin is not only wrongly becoming more and more acceptable amongst adults, but also students show discrimination against their fellow students. Hence, teachers are asked to pay attention to
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Since Chinese students are amongst the top performers world wide, the UK has decided to learn from the best. A new alliance has been agreed on, where Chinese Maths books are being translated into English. This will allow British students to learn with the same materials that Chinese pupils use. 36 books will be translated
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A 49-year-old teaching assistant at Coppermill Primary School in Walthamstow is planning to run two Marathons in April and May. Kare Reed, is running the London Marthon and the Milton Keynes Marathon to raise awareness for homelessness in London and to raise money to tackle this issue. When the children heard about their teacher’s idea,
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The statutory tests in English, maths and spelling and grammar could soon be a relict from the past. The department of Education is rethinking how to assess the progress that children make during their time at Primary school. Currently sats are used to asses the children’s abilities at the time when they first enter primary
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While the world of education is often urged to include more art subjects, engineers now call for more teaching of problem solving skills. It is not a secret that the UK is short in engineers at the moment. One of the reasons for this is found in the lack of teaching of problem solving skills.
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Ofsted considers using social media like Facebook or Twitter to detect a decline of a school’s performance quicker in order to be able to react to it as fast as possible. While high standard schools are not visited by an inspector on a regular basis, mentioning on online platforms of the schools could help inspectors notice
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When the new numerical system was announced to replace the alphabetical system the troubles were big at the beginning. Teachers were confused about the new standards and how they translate to their familiar scale. The main reason for the introduction of the new system was to raise the pupils’ skills in order to raise the
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Children who drop out of schools without any explanation are at greater risk of abuse and exploitation than their peers who go to school regularly. Obviously the reasoning is circular – children who are already being abused are also rarely seen visiting schools on a regular basis. However, there are also other reasons for why
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