Growing number of children are self-harming or harbouring suicidal thoughts as mental health problems amongst pupils rise, says a newly-published survey of headteachers. A survey of 338 schools revealed more than half (55 per cent) said they had experienced a large increase in cases of anxiety and stress – while more than 40 per cent […]
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The rent strike dispute at University College London has worsened after a senior official told students it was a “fact of life” that some people can’t afford to study in London. Hundreds of students are at risk of eviction after pledging to join an indefinite rent strike declared last month. The group, who are tenants […]
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The Government’s “damaging” visa policies are making Britain a “difficult and unattractive” place to study for international students, a new report has warned. According to the findings from the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS), last year’s business school student intake from outside the EU “fell sharply” by almost nine per cent. This, in turn, could […]
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Children have been learning alongside ancient artefacts and innovative artwork as part of research to investigate the benefits of going to school in a museum. Three schools have moved classes into their local museums to test whether it will boost pupils’ learning and also attract a new audience of visitors to museums, as part of […]
Continue ReadingThe sharp rise in universities giving unconditional offers of places to sixthformers makes institutions look “desperate” and risks making students “sit back and twiddle their thumbs”, a leading headteacher has warned. Peter Hamilton, head of The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in Hertfordshire, told an education conference that he was concerned at the sharp rise in […]
Continue ReadingThe excitable, text speaking youth of today are being told to curb their exclamation by the Government. New Department for Education instructions to moderators assessing the writing of seven-year-olds has decreed that an exclamation mark will be deemed to have been correctly used only if the child has begun the sentence with ‘How’ or ‘What’ […]
Continue ReadingA Government teacher recruitment ad that was “ridiculed” by members of the profession after it claimed that £65,000 was a potential salary has been cleared by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The TV slot for the Department of Education (DfE) received 140 complaints claiming it was a “misrepresentation” of the potential salary they could earn. […]
Continue ReadingWeak headeachers are responsible for too many of the country’s brightest teachers quitting the classroom, the chief schools inspector has warned, as the Government called for precocious twenty-something recruits to be fast-tracked into headships. Sir Michael Wilshaw, head of the education standards watchdog Ofsted, called for more “battlers, bruisers and battle-axes“ to be appointed to […]
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A new world ranking of countries and their literacy rates puts the United States at 7th. Who’s Number one? Finland. The study, conducted by John W. Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut, analyses trends in literate behaviour and literacy in more than 60 countries. It found that Nordic countries are among the […]
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Nancy Hanks was standing in a lift, her eyes fixed on her cellphone, when the doors opened onto a familiar face. It was one of her former students, a boy she had expelled from the school she led in one of Chicago’s toughest neighbourhoods. She was flooded with fear. What had become of the student’s […]
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