by vinnie walsh | th Oct 2019 | News
By the age of seven, children are already facing limits on their future aspirations in work, according to a report from the OECD international economics think tank. Andreas Schleicher, the OECD’s director of education and skills, says “talent is being...
by vinnie walsh | th Oct 2019 | News
Colleges are struggling to meet the needs of a growing number of students who have been excluded, ‘off-rolled’ or home-schooled during their GCSE years amid ‘insufficient’ funding, according to a new report. Staff...
by vinnie walsh | th Oct 2019 | News
Getting enough sleep and seeing friends may have a bigger effect on teenage girls’ mental wellbeing than social media use, a report suggests. The finding comes in the government’s new State of the Nation report, looking at young people’s happiness...
by vinnie walsh | th Oct 2019 | News
A school has told parents to stop using their mobile phones in the playground so they speak to their children at pick-up time. Wendy Cathie, head of St Peter’s CE Primary School in Leigh, near Wigan, has made the playground a mobile-free...
by vinnie walsh | th Oct 2019 | News
Families from Sheffield took part in a test to see who breathes in more pollution on the school run – kids who walk, bike or go by car. The experiment saw three families take air quality monitors with them to school to measure levels of PM2.5, small particles of...
by vinnie walsh | th Oct 2019 | News
Parents’ complaints about a lack of educational provision and support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) has surged, an ombudsman has found. Vulnerable young people are increasingly being failed by a system ‘in...
