An inquiry has been ordered into England's education system after reports of examiners giving teachers secret advice on how to improve pupils' results. An undercover investigation by The Daily Telegraph newspaper found evidence of teachers paying £200-a-day to attend seminars with chief examiners. There, the paper alleges, they were advised on future GCSE and A-level exam […]
According to Ofqual chief executive Isabel Nisbet, computerised exams should replace pen and paper tests for a generation used to digital learning. Writing in the Times Educational Supplement, she said the current reliance on handwritten papers "cannot go on". In the UK only a few sections of existing exams can be taken on computers.
Education Secretary Michael Gove has signalled the possible return of a compulsory modern foreign language at GCSE. Launching a national curriculum review in England, he cut the list of subjects guaranteed to remain compulsory to English, maths, science and PE. A panel of experts will decide how many more subjects should be required study, and […]
Before you decide to drop out of school, college or university, consider this: according to a report published last month in the journal Brain, people with higher levels of education cope better with the damage to the brain associated with old age. Basically, people with more education suffer less from dementia. So, keep on learning.
Here's my rant of the day - They're at it again! CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) involves teaching a curricular subject through the medium of a language other than that normally used. What they're calling Plurilingual Education. For example, teaching a science lesson in German in a school in the UK. It looks as […]
That old spelling mantra, which generations of British schoolchildren have learnt for decades, "i before e, except after c," is under threat. Under new British government guidance teachers have been told not to pass on the rule to students, because there are too many exceptions. A document called "Support For Spelling" is being sent to […]