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  Get over it
Date: February  02, 2009  

A deluge of overnight snow has left much of Britain paralysed, with airports closed, schools shut, normally-busy roads impassable and train lines all but empty. But it doesn t have to be this way.Heavy snow is a regular occurrence in parts of continental Europe and northern areas of Scotland. Even in southern England, snow and Arctic conditions pun
  Schools across UK shut by weather
Date: February  02, 2009  

Thousands of schools across Britain have been closed because of the snow driving in from the east.A decision on whether any school should close is usually taken by individual head teachers and the government said it expected them to take a common sense approach.In some cases their hands were forced by the lack of public transport. In some areas, fu
  Vorderman heads maths task force
Date: February  01, 2009  

Carol Vorderman, the former co-host of Channel 4 gameshow Countdown, is to head a maths task force for David Cameron, the Conservatives have said.She will assess teaching methods, how to tackle people s "fear" of maths and whether tests have got easier.A package of proposals aimed at improving numeracy is to be unveiled by the Conservative Leader l
  Facing up to Canada s dark history
Date: January  31, 2009  

By Lorraine MallinderKahnewake, CanadaFrom the late 19th Century up to the 1970s, an estimated 150,000 native children in Canada were seized from their parents and sent far away to state-funded, church-run schools to learn how to think, speak and act like white people. The country is still coming to terms with the disastrous results.Maybe I picked
  Call for more Asian sex education
Date: January  30, 2009  

By Sabina AlderwishBBC Asian NetworkAsian children should have more sex education than others, according to one of the UK s major sex clinics.Penny Barber, of the Brook clinic in Birmingham, said an increasing number of young Asians were seeking its services, having had unprotected sex.Research carried out in London secondary schools has found most
  Independent school call for poor
Date: January  29, 2009  

By Seonag MacKinnonBBC Scotland education correspondentChildren from poorer backgrounds should receive up to £10,000 in credit to allow them to go to independent schools, a think tank has suggested.Reform Scotland said that despite a major increase in funding for education over the past decade, many children were failed by their local schools.Th
  Ofsted intervenes at new academy
Date: January  28, 2009  

By Alison Smith and Angela Harrison BBC NewsAn academy which opened just five months ago has been put into "special measures" after parents complained to England s schools inspectors, Ofsted.The head teacher and the chief executive of the Richard Rose Central Academy in Carlisle are to leave and new leaders are being brought in.The academy was clos
   Too many cannot read and write
Date: January  28, 2009  

An "unacceptably" high number of people in England cannot read, write and count properly, MPs have warned.The Public Accounts Committee said in 2007 51,000 pupils left school without a GCSE grade D-G in maths and 39,000 left without this grade in English.The report into adult literacy and numeracy also warned that only one in five offenders with po
  Open questions
Date: January  26, 2009  

Andrew Miller asks whether open source software can help schools use their budgets more efficiently"Looking around BETT 2009, it was clear by the sheer size of the event, that an awful lot of money is being spent on technology in education.With Open Source Software (OSS) freely available, covering almost every requirement in the national curri
  University doubts over Diplomas
Date: January  25, 2009  

Many teachers do not think the new school Diplomas are a suitable qualification for students going on to university, a survey suggests.Only 30% of secondary teachers thought Diplomas were useful for university.The Sutton Trust, which commissioned the survey, says a qualifications divide could open up between better and less well-off students.The go


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