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New Educational Era Starts

A new educational chapter is about to begin. The start of the educational year is imminent, along with the opportunities and frustrations that will emerge. We must hope the outcome will be positive. The change of the Educational Secretary of State for Education follows an all too familiar sequence. On average...

August 21, 2016
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State Schools, Academy Transfer Huge Risk

The transfer of all state school to academies could be a privatisation move too far. The Department for Education presumably will be defunct loosing influence and hundreds of jobs just as the market will place a huge demand for support. The role of the Secretary of State for Education will be downgraded...

March 22, 2016
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Design Creativity Should Start In Primary School

One of the key objectives of primary and secondary education should be to nurture school children with a creative design ability to provide schoolchildren with better options as adults. Overseas countries  see a key role in getting pre-schoolers to appreciate good design towards spearheading a lifetime...

March 15, 2016
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School Children Bottom In Wellbeing Survey

The saying ‘school days are the happiest days of your life’ has apparently become out-dated. Children in the UK are well down the league in a recent survey. If we were asked to compare the lifestyles of British children with say those from Romania we could get quite a surprise. Despite all the press...

February 17, 2016
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England Fails Miserably In Educational League Table

Despite the focus of the Department for Education over the past 10 years, England has slipped to the bottom in the OECD international educational league table. The standard of numeracy and literacy with 16 – 19 year old students has dropped such that England now occupies the bottom position of the 23 countries...

January 29, 2016
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Recruitment Of Good Head Teachers Critical

Crucial to the operation of a good school is a good headteacher but there is a worrying trend developing. Nearly 90 per cent of existing heads say the job has changed measurably over the past five years in both primary and secondary schools. Unfortunately the trend indicates an entirely negative view....

January 28, 2016
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Teaching Staff To Attend Best Overseas Schools

In a bid to improve the quality of schools the educational department in Delhi has started to send headteachers and teachers overseas to study the best schools in the world. Teaching staff will be sent to the best universities, training facilities and schools around the globe. This action has a double...

January 25, 2016
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School Term Time Holiday Absence Fines On the Increase

The national schools policy fining parents when children take holidays during term time is falling apart. The judgement falls to the head teacher who often is reluctant to enforce the fine. Although the total fines applied during 2014 – 15 were substantially up at 86k compared to the 62k from 2013-14...

January 19, 2016
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Dyslexie Font Wins Over Life Long Dyslexia Sufferer

The Dyslexie font developed by Christian Boer, a Dutch graphic designer and fellow dyslexia suffer, was designed to make reading easier and more memorable Dyslexia suffer of all ages. We recently sent two copies of a factual story, on Pluto, to a mature Dyslexia sufferer. One version was in a standard...

January 18, 2016
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Greek and Latin Aids Literary and Numeracy Skills

A new teaching technique is giving fresh hope to struggling pupils by decoding words into Greek or Latin  has boosted their learning achievement dramatically. Every now and again faith in our educational system takes an all too rare boost. Research at Northumbria University discovered that by educating...

January 5, 2016
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