Preparing to study abroad
There has never been an opportunity like there is today for a student to study in a foreign country this comes about because of the international standards are education are very similar now, but for a student who intends to study in a foreign country particularly with in Europe there are other problems.
First of all [...]
Students given exam clues
There are some concerns for the Oxford, Cambridge and RSA exam board (OSR) as there would seem to be some students who are being given privileged information, like what is going to be in the practical examination in A2 Biology.
It started with a question on the Student Room forum, the enquiry was about the practical [...]
Kids vote boy out of the class
A teacher at a kindergarten in St Lucie County, USA, has allowed the children in her class to vote to see if they liked five year old Alex Barton or not. The children voted on a ratio of 14 to 2 in favour of not liking the boy.
He had been sent down to the headmasters [...]
What’s your degree in?
These days going to college or university, is entirely different to the good old days, if there ever was such a time. But it’s not only the fact that students these days are getting into debt before they have even started, everything has changed especially when it comes to the amount of courses taken.
So what [...]
Sometimes anyone can get a degree
Studying for a degree is the hardest work that students do, but is it getting any easier. After all there is talk that all other exams are getting easier rather than more being more difficult. But when it gets to degree standards you would have thought that the levels required should remain constant.
So if this [...]
Bad behaviour could mean learning a trade
The government desperate to put a false stop behind the so called “Yob” culture that has gripped the nation’s schools and streets have come up with a sure way of removing the problem from the schools.
The plans are to create what have been named as “Studio Schools” where it is planned that these unruly [...]
Kids leaving primary school unable to read
In a new OFSTED report it has been found that there are around one in five children who are leaving primary school, who do not have a good enough grasp of how to read, write and basic arithmetic.
This report is another problem that is going to hit the government’s targets and indeed plans for education [...]
Exams may not be marked correctly
It is a tragic state of affairs when you have students studying all of their school life which is leading up to the point when their exams or course work is going to marked and their future is then decided, only to have Kathleen Tattersall, the Chairman of Ofqual, the exam watchdog saying that students [...]
May 15, 2008Improving exam pass rates
It makes no difference how clever you are, but when it comes to taking the exam everything seems to simply fall out the window and in this case some students actually fail at this stage. But there are some ideas that can help the student prepare for the exams.
But it is not all about having [...]
Office 2007 no good for schools
Once again the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) have complained to the European Commission again with regards to Microsoft and their products.
In response it would seem that the European commission are going to launch a wider investigation, even though they have only recently finished an anti trust investigation on the company.
The problems surround [...]
Hawking in search of new Einstein
Having spent the majority of his life trying to explain how the universe started, Professor Stephen Hawking has now started a new search, this time it is much closer to earth. For, he is launching a new project to find the African versions of Einstein, Bill Gates, and Sergey Brins and Larry Pages (Google).
This has [...]
Data breach in UK school
Out of all that data that is out there on us, the data that we care about the most has to be that of out children and there are many places where this data is stored, clubs, schools, doctors and other organisations, but we still expect this data to be as safe it possibly can.
But [...]
Children taught what’s bad about downloading
It is well known that most of the illegal downloading that occurs these days is done the younger generation or so we are led to believe. So in order to get ahead of the game, the powers that be have come up a new plan to attack before things get worse.
In order to do this, [...]
Students get free Microsoft products
It pays to be a student these days, yes there are those dreaded fees and loans, but there are many freebies too. One great thing out there is an offer from Microsoft of all people; yes they do give things away too.
A student will be able to get their hands on these great Microsoft products:
Visual [...]
Students outed by head teacher
Being gay at school must be nightmare for some people, whereas for others it can be a total party, it all depends on how they deal with it and what the friends thinks about it. However being gay and decided to come out should be a matter a personal choice.
But at school in Memphis, Tennessee [...]
Lollipop ladies get CCTV
Outside virtually every school during the morning and afternoon school rush, there will always be one of those ladies, dressed in a white and yellow coat holding a giant lollipop. The lollipop lady has become one of the features outside many of the UK’s schools and now they are part of the surveillance society.
The lollipop [...]