Boys prefer to be taught by men
In a recent study of over a thousand men, nearly half of them forty eight per cent said that their male primary school teachers had a long lasted effect on their school life and beyond. The research had been carried out by ICM, for the Training and Development Agency, who are largely responsible for the [...]
September 30, 2008Kid’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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hidden CCTV in schools
There are growing concerns over the increased use of CCTV and even hidden cameras that are being installed in the UK’s schools. These concerns have come from survey of almost two hundred and fifty working teachers.
The findings from the survey revealed that there are surveillance systems installed in around 84.6 per cent of schools and [...]
Spelling mistakes are ok
It seems that spelling mistakes are getting just a little bit too much for one university lecturer that he has now proposed that some common spelling mistakes should now be included into the English language.
Dr Ken Smith, senior lecturer in criminology at Buckinghamshire New University, has drawn up a list of these “Common” mistakes. He [...]
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 [...]
Prison for taking photos of unsafe schools
It may because of the media invasion of china, but there are quite few stories coming out from the places that rarely ever get visited by outsiders.
Like this teacher who following the terrible earthquake in the Sichuan region, which killed over 70,000 and devastated whole areas. He has been arrested for and been sentenced to [...]
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 [...]
Pupils used to heat school
New school is so eco friendly that the heat generated by the bodies of the pupils and staff will be enough to keep the school heated.
Work has just started on the replacement for the Acharacle Primary School in Ardnamurchan, on the west coast of Scotland, which had seen better days, so it was decided to [...]