Kid’s watchdog launched
A new watchdog has been launched with the aim of protecting children from what they are calling harmful internet content, this title will cover everything from cyber bullying and even violent video games.
The idea comes from The UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) that is made up of social networking websites and IT based [...]
Getting an online degree
Obtaining a degree online is becoming very popular these days for several reasons, this is because they offer the student the opportunity to stay a work and build on their careers and at the same time gain that all important degree.
However, with so much choice to the potential student what are the best places to [...]
Open source for education departments
There have been some serious problems for the UK government over their choices for software partners. There are many stories around where various providers of these services have been given huge contracts only for them to run over budget or in some case not deliver.
Another problem came from the use of Microsoft in the countries [...]
Kids to test smart drugs
School children could be used a guinea pigs for new brain enhancing drug, these drugs are known as Cognition Enhancers and are believed to improve the performance of the brain, like short term memory and increase the speed of the thought too.
The government have already been advised by the Academy of Medical Sciences, they recommended [...]
Oxford standards dropping, due to working class students
It seems no matter what the government says, the class war is far from over in fact in places like Oxford it is turning into all out war.
Universities have been forced to take students from all backgrounds, this have meant the top of the range universities like those of Oxford and Cambridge have had to [...]
School choices in the UK
With the new school year upon us, it is a bit late for parents to be considering what type of secondary school to send their children to, you would have thought that there was little or no choice as to what types of school are available, but you would be wrong.
Below is a list of [...]
Changes for foreign students
The UK has always been an attractive option for foreign student to come over and earn a degree or study for some other qualification. However, in recent years the system that operated has been abused by some organisations that used it simply to allow foreigners to enter the country and then disappear.
In order [...]
C4 sex education gets complaints
For those who do not know, the Sex Education Show is Channel Four’s idea of introducing the entire family to the world of sex. This is supposed to be able to provide people with information and facts, which are, designed to education the general population.
However, putting this programme on at 8 pm was a mistake [...]
Distance learning can be ok
Once you have started work, there always comes a time when you are going to sit back and think why didn’t I go on to university? However, what makes it worse is that now you are working and paying your way, in order to go back to college is going to mean a complete lifestyle [...]
September 5, 2008Kids to stay at until 17
For the first time since 1972, the school leaving age is to change. These changes will only affect pupils starting secondary school for the first time this term. These children will now have to stay at school until they reach the age of seventeen.
But this is not going to be the only change being put [...]
Preparing the brain to learn
Preparation has always been the key to success, no matter what field you are dealing with, so it stands to reason that preparing the brain for school and learning would be a great thing.
Following a pattern of preparations, can make all the difference to a pupil as they go through the years of learning, like [...]
Learning in the early years
A has found that children who learn maths in the early year learning years often tend to be much better at the subject when they get to the age of ten, than those children who did not learn maths in the preschool years.
The research carried out by Edward Melhuish, a professor of human development at [...]