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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kids 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 [...]
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 [...]
Kids escape bullying with plastic surgery
There are concerns throughout the UK educational system that kids as young as fourteen are resorting to having plastic surgery in order to avoid being bullied by other children.
The types of plastic surgery vary enormously from nose jobs and even breast implants. Unlike reasons given before about how young people are trying to copy celebrities, [...]
Pupils learn about slavery
As the new school term approaches, there is new of how this is going to be shaken up, one significant change is that all children will have to learn about the UK’s involvement in the slave trade.
School children aged between eleven and fourteen will have to study about how the UK built its empire up [...]
200,000 kids spanked in US schools
There is a theory that beating kids in the home or at school just teaches them violence, which is why we look upon it in the way that we do now. However, this does not look like to be same in the US where it has been estimated that around 200,000 kids were disciplined at [...]
August 19, 2008M&S in trouble over new school blazer
There is trouble brewing before the kids start their new term, as the High St clothing chain Marks and Spencer have upset the teachers union NASUWT by advertising their latest back to school clothing range.
The store is advertising the blazer as the “Blazer for iPod” which does not really need much explanation other than the [...]
Learning requires sleep
Most people were told when they were children, to get enough sleep, as it will make you learn better at school. However, as with much of the advice that parents give to their kids, this probably went in one ear and out of the other without stopping.
Nevertheless, research has now found that parent were right [...]
Girl overturns no jewellery rule
A fourteen-year-old girl, who was excluded from school for wearing a bracelet, has won her high court discrimination case against the school in Wales.
Sarika Singh from Cwmbach, South Wales found herself excluded from the Aberdare Girls School last year when you refused to remove her bangle for religious reasons.
However, with no hope of finding a [...]
Fake tans banned at school
These days it hard to distinguish between that has a real suntan and those people who like to get their sun tan out of a bottle.
However, at some schools this is going to be no longer a problem as the head teacher has banned the use of fake suntan, especially those girls who are turning [...]
Schools closed by strike action
Throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland thousands of council workers have been on strike causing chaos to many of the council services including schools.
Members of the Unison and Unite unions are expecting around six hundred thousand workers to part in a series of planned strikes which is over pay and will affect non teaching staff [...]
When children are marked as racists
In these day of high security and ultra political correctness there are certain things that we used to say and do, which for one reason or another we can no longer do and say at least out n public anyway, but there are worrying signs that pre school children are being judged by the actions.
In [...]
Want school dinners? Get finger printed
Pupils at a school in Huddersfield are being fingerprinted so that they can pay for the school dinners without having to carrying around cash.
The All Saints Catholic College in Bradley Bar is the latest school to introduce this biometric scheme, the pupils have their fingers scanned into a computer; this will then act as a [...]
Pray to Allah or get detention
The Alsager School in Cheshire has found itself at the centre of a human rights case when two boys refused to pray to Allah during a religious education lesson. The children were asked to wear Islamic Headdress and with the prayer mats at the ready they were told to pray to Allah.
The two boys refused [...]
Schools should teach the meaning of life
It seems that children are to be taught philosophy at school but nothing too intense like the meaning of life or other questions that would through up questions about the why we are here and how did we get here in the first place.
It has been suggested that children should learn about philosophy through everyday [...]
How to improve your memory
Unlike computers our memory needs to be exercised every now and then to make sure that it is working properly. Otherwise we could are likely to end up forgetting where we left things even though they are right in front of us. If you are experiencing this sort of problem, there is no need to [...]