Poor educational performance – the challenge for individuals and nations
Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills at the OECD highlights the long term consequences of poor performing students and the importance of reducing...
Schools must push apprenticeships when offering careers advice
A new law will ensure schools give equal exposure to non-academic career routes …
School career guidance must highlight non-academic routes as well as academic....
Teaching unions unite to tackle recruitment crisis
A number of teaching unions have come together to tackle the looming recruitment crisis and to improve the financial outlook for schools…
The public sector...
Council considers overhauling school holiday system
Brighton and Hove City Council is considering changing the summer holidays to allow family vacations to occur during off-peak times…
The issue of school holidays...
New measures announced to keep children safe online at school
Under new plans announced by the government, all schools will be required to put in place strengthened measures to protect children from online harm…
The...
NUS survey finds students experience mental health issues
The majority of students experience mental health issues, but do not seek help for their problems, it has emerged…
A new survey from the National...
The benefits of bringing 3D printing into the classroom
Wyn Griffiths, Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University outlines how 3D printing can bring excellent benefits for both students and teachers into the classroom…
3D printers are...
Philosophy within social/educational research
Dr Kevin J Flint, Reader in Education at Nottingham Trent University discusses philosophy within social and educational research
Some Welsh term-time holiday fines unfair
A Welsh AM has claimed some parents are being treated unfairly for taking children out of school during term-time…
The issue of term-time holidays is...
Ofsted warn of north-south divide in English schools
There is a growing divide between the results seen in northern schools and those in the south, it has emerged…
Education watchdog Ofsted has warned...
A quarter of NI head teachers are “overworked”
Head teachers union warns more than a quarter of school leaders have unmanageable stress levels and do not receive sufficient support…
Last month, teachers reported feeling...
Philosophy within social/ educational research
In the everyday and customary repetitions/reiterations of embodied practices it would be very easy to begin this brief paper concerned with opening space for...
Raising academic standards in UK schools
AG looks at how the Department of Education is improving standards in schools to help pupils leave school with qualifications to find employment
Are UK...
Can validation of non-formal learning increase employability?
Pavel Trantina, at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), argues the case for non-formal learning in order to gain key skills for the...
The efit21 strategy – transforming education
The Federal Ministry for Education and Women’s Affairs (BMBF) details how new digital technologies are transforming classrooms across Austria
Information and communication technologies transform teaching...
How technology can support teachers best
Educational technologies are advancing rapidly; new solutions, apps, and online platforms appear every day. Mobile learning, learning on demand, and media rich curricula are...
Boosting investment in education: Let’s make it happen
In a speech at a joint event with The European Investment Bank, Tibor Navracsics, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, outlines the importance of...
Are teachers under too much pressure?
Unions warn teachers are under so much pressure they are being “reduced to tears”, highlighting yet another difficulty facing the sector.
It certainly seems as...
Is the education sector in trouble?
With teachers leaving the profession in droves, many failing to even last the first year after qualifying, AG asks if the education sector is...
Investigation into the impact of smartphones on behaviour in lessons
An investigation into training teachers to tackle poor pupil behaviour will also cover issues relating to smartphones in lessons.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb has announced...