Curriculum

Good careers education ‘vital’ to fuel aspirations, says NAHT

26/07/2016 - 11:01

Good quality careers education can play a vital role in helping young people to aspire to fulfilling careers, according to the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT).

Sex education ‘inadequate or absent’ in many schools, report claims

12/07/2016 - 12:24

Sex and relationships education (SRE) is ‘inadequate or absent’ in many schools across the UK, according to a report from the Terrence Higgins Trust.

Children ‘denied education for safe relationships in schools’, says BHA

12/07/2016 - 12:10

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has once again criticised the Department for Education’s (DfE) stance on making personal, social, health, and economic education (PSHE), including sex and relationships education (SRE), compulsory in English schools.

£41m for ‘Asian-style’ maths lessons in England

12/07/2016 - 10:04

£41m worth of funding is being made available to support more than 8,000 schools to adopt teaching practices from leading Asian countries.

York MP defends primary testing

08/07/2016 - 11:13

A York MP has defended the government’s policy on primary school testing, arguing that it gives children the opportunity to fulfil their potential.

SATS results should not be compared to previous years, Morgan says

05/07/2016 - 10:03

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has cautioned that SATS results, due to be published today (5 July), should not be compared with previous years.

Playwrights call to save drama in schools

04/07/2016 - 10:51

Two highly regarded British Playwrights have joined calls to save drama in schools and keep it on the curriculum.

Scotland outlines plans to close education attainment gap

30/06/2016 - 12:14

The Scottish government has outlined plans to close the education attainment gap across Scotland over the next five years.

£2m of ’character eduction’ fund to go to military-style projects

27/06/2016 - 11:25

The Department for Education (DfE) has announced that one third of the £6 million funding pot targeted at building character in school pupils, will be used to support military-style projects.

Basingstoke pupils protest ‘off-topic’ exam questions

23/06/2016 - 11:23

Pupils in Basingstoke are protesting against their Biology A Level exam after finding that little of exam contained questions on topics they had studied.

‘Digitally savvy’ businesses urged to work with schools

22/06/2016 - 09:57

'Digitally savvy’ businesses are being encouraged to work with school teachers to close the skills gap in STEM subjects.

Disadvantaged pupils receive lower quality maths instruction, report warns

21/06/2016 - 12:27

Disadvantaged pupils systematically receive lower quality mathematics instruction compared to their more advantaged peers, a new report from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has warned.

Osborne’s £10m Mandarin teaching better invested elsewhere, O’Hagan says

20/06/2016 - 10:22

Carmel O’Hagan, the former head of languages at CILT The National Centre for Languages, has criticised Chancellor George Osborne’s £10 million investment in expanding the teaching of Mandarin, claiming it could have been better invested in language assistants.

Inflexible school curriculum leads to gender imbalance later on, research suggests

14/06/2016 - 09:50

A new study published in The Economic Journal has suggested that women are often under-represented in high-powered careers because they shy away from taking advanced maths courses at school.

Report calls for action on UK digital skills crisis

14/06/2016 - 09:48

A report by the Commons Science and Technology Committee has called on the government to address the UK’s digital skill crisis, warning it could risk damaging the country’s productivity and competitiveness.