Educational authorities worldwide implore parents to maintain an interactive role in the schooling process, yet the majority tend to let go as their child goes to school. The involvement of the parent has a measurable benefit on performance and can be extremely rewarding for the parent, child and teacher. This parental hands-on support is commonplace […]

The untippable chair is the practical result of applied physics and maths. The new design solves a well known problem and is a great idea especially if children had been involved. Inevitably we will now lose the services of a good teacher to the commercial world. Perhaps we need some more interactive projects or physics […]

Throwing an inflatable ball over a 6-foot-6-inch overpass has taken on a new meaning for EHOVE students.
For the second year in a row, students enrolled in USA EHOVE’s College Tech Prep Engineering program entered the “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology Overdrive” robotics competition.
The nationwide contest requires the teams to build a robot […]

Dr James Wetz, former headteacher of two large secondary schools and visiting fellow at Bristol University’s graduate school of education, argued that large secondary schools are ill-equipped to support pupils and may even stifle their potential in a Channel 4 Dispatches programme.
A huge number of star pupils from primary education fail to thrive in […]

The unfortunate consequence of assessing performance nationally is the need to set standards by which it can be measured. The ultimate aim is to provide children with the best options in adulthood, yet in a class size of 30 with an average range of abilities and interests, the ideal arbiters to maximise performance are surely […]