Mobiles harmful to kids
A top neurosurgeon Dr Vini Khurana has reignited the health and mobile phone health question once more. He has been awarded fourteen awards over the past sixteen years and published nearly forty scientific papers, but it is his more recent claim that mobile phones could kill more people than smoking and asbestos.
In his latest report [...]
Under 18’s not allowed to use Google
How many times do children of all ages use Google at school to search out information for projects and other school related work? But there is small debate going on that has highlighted that there could be some problems with this, especially as by looking at the Google’s terms and conditions it would seem that [...]
March 27, 2008PDF’s great for school use
PDF’s are great they offer ease of use and there are very few problems with them, this makes this format very adaptable for use in schools. Here’s why:
Comfort - Teachers and students are already comfortable with PDF
Equipment - Schools have the equipment to view PDF’s
Cost – PDF’s can be created easily and inexpensively
Fonts – [...]
Who wants to study engineering?
It has to be one of the most under rated subjects to learn a college or university, not because of the actual studying, it’s because what lies ahead, engineering forms the base of everything that we need and use, from roads to planes. So why is it, that college courses are not designed to add [...]
March 21, 2008What you NEED to learn
Going away to college or university is one the time when the student has to effectively fend for themselves, which normally means plenty of beer and pizza. But with the cost of living going up all of the time, this would mean that any cash that they have will not last for long and then [...]
March 20, 2008Schools under pressure
Whatever happened to the phrase “Education, Education, Education!” it was drummed into everyone’s head ten years ago, but has the governments plan to educate our children really paid off or has nothing changed at all?
The schools minister Jim Knight is saying that schools should be allowed have classes of seventy, but in order to make [...]
Education mistake costs £3.4 million
A London council and an education provider are locked in an argument over who will have to pick up the bill for an error that could cost around £3.4 million. The London borough of Waltham Forest switch the education services to the boroughs schools from one provider to another, this means that a hundred council [...]
March 17, 2008Schools are unhealthy
We are not talking about being unhealthy for humans, but in actual fact these claims are that the schools themselves are ill, the buildings are suffering from what is known as sick building syndrome which is caused by bad design and when buildings have been updated to fix a short term problem.
It is not just [...]
The school of 41 languages
In most schools these many of the pupils struggle to keep up with French lessons as they always seem to be so hard and to be fair, quite embarrassing most of the time especially when you have to speak out aloud in front of the class.
But imagine being in a school where there are pupils [...]
Teachers want homework scrapped
There is a worry among the country’s primary school teachers that setting homework could be putting too much pressure on the young children, making them anxious and unhappy about school. This in turn will make them dislike school which is a trend that can follow them right through their school years.
School children in England are [...]
The internet is the student’s best friend
The internet is fast becoming one of the main resources that students use for many different things as well as their educational needs. Virtually every student now uses the internet for communication, study, entertainment and personal finances, meaning that the computer and internet has now become an invaluable asset when combined with education.
Before the internet [...]
An education on Second Life
People use Second Life for many different things, meeting people, making money and now you can get yourself a decent education from the many places of learning that are scattered around the SL site.
Not all of these sites offer a traditional education as in learning a specific skill or gaining a qualification, but rather a [...]
Brains of the sexes are different
It seems that boys and girls are different; well tell us something we don’t already know! It is true when it comes to brains the female and male brains are different, which has been the subject of many studies, although until recently there was not quite an exact reason why and what the differences are.
But [...]
Schools can save Billions with Open source
If schools switched all of their software requirements over to an open source software providers such as Open Office it could save the taxpayer billions of pounds.
In a report that was made by Becta the government body for education a couple of years ago also stated that if schools made the switch they would benefit [...]
Parental choice to end in UK schools
Sex education in school has always been a problem for parents, some don’t want teachers informing their children about the birds and bees at early ages and some feel that there is not enough being taught at school.
But in a survey of two thousand teaching staff at primary schools it has been found that over [...]