education
Primary teachers to boycott Key Stage tests
The Times (London), 26 March 2009
Teaching unions join forces in revolt over controversial school tests in what is effectively an attempt to scrap them.
Parents feel excluded by children
BBC News Online, 23 March 2009
Many parents feel "excluded" by their children's reluctance to tell them anything about their time spent at school, suggests a survey.
TV ‘genius’ Gail Trimble leads the march of the bluestockings
The Times (London), 28 February 2009
Britain has a problem with clever women. By Alexandra Frean and Helen Rumbelow.
Schools ‘failing to fire the imagination’
The Times (London), 20 February 2009
Discussion and problem-solving pushed aside while 'memorisation and recall are valued over understanding' says review.
Apostrophe wars
The Times (London), 30 January 2009
Birmingham to remove punctuation to standardise road signs.
Education at home ‘can cover abuse and neglect’
The Times (London), 20 January 2009
Children's Minister has ordered a review of the rules covering the estimated 20,000 home-educated children in England.
Stuck in the myth of social immobility
Sunday Times, 18 January 2009
One thing is never asked: what would be an ideal or even desirable level of social mobility? By Dominic Lawson.
Thousands excluded for sexual bullying
The Times (London), 6 January 2009
Incidents included groping, using sexually-abusive nicknames, daubing explicit graffiti, and committing serious sexual attacks.
Editorial: Primary error
The Times (London), 9 December 2008
“Understanding” a babble of themes is no substitute for knowledge. Primary education needs more rigour, not less.
Our modern morality tale villains
The Times (London), 9 December 2008
Meddling and a class obsession is ruining the Government's most successful parenting scheme. By Rachel Sylvester.
£17m beacon school fails Ofsted check
The Times (London), 9 December 2008
A £17 million school that was rebuilt under a government project is thought to be the first to fail an Ofsted inspection.
Traditional subjects go in schools shake-up
The Times (London), 8 December 2008
Traditional subjects such as history, geography and religious studies will be removed from the primary school curriculum and merged into a “human, social and environmental” learning programme as part of a series of radical education reforms.
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