by vinnie walsh | st Jun 2018 | News
The chief inspector of Ofsted is backing head teachers who ban mobile phones to prevent bad behaviour. In a speech, Amanda Spielman is expected to blame technology for making “low-level disruption” more common and endorse tough behaviour policies....
by vinnie walsh | th Mar 2018 | News
There was a time, not so long ago, when calculators were spurned as the handmaid of the lazy maths student. But according to the latest research, far from hindering young maths pupils, these little magic boxes actually aid them with their arithmetic skills. Academics...
by vinnie walsh | th Mar 2018 | News
The education secretary has promised to cut teachers’ workload in an attempt to resolve a recruitment crisis in England’s schools. Damian Hinds told a head teachers’ conference in Birmingham that there will be no more new changes to primary...
by vinnie walsh | th Mar 2018 | News
More than 1,500 uneaten school dinners were given to charities in Bournemouth as schools closed due to the snow. The chicken and pasta meals had already been cooked when news of Thursday’s school closures came through, provider Forerunner said. The food –...
by vinnie walsh | th Jan 2018 | News
More than one in eight secondary schools in England is below the standard deemed acceptable by ministers, league table data shows. The secondary school league tables have just been published, featuring the results of the first pupils to sit new, tougher GCSEs in...
