The Schools' News Service

The Secretary of State for Education has accepted recommendations that all secondary schools should join behaviour partnerships.  He also announced new plans for a White Paper to change the alternative provision for pupils who have been excluded from school.  He also announced plans to tackle cyber bullying of teachers. According to speakers at the NASUWT Union conference this Easter disruptive [...]

The vast majority of schools and colleges in England will offer Diplomas from September 2009.  Around three quarters of secondary schools and 88% of colleges will teach Diplomas with the support of local universities and employers.317 groups of schools, colleges and training providers will be run diplomas  from 2009 in subjects including Environmental and Land-based Studies, [...]

Parents who are members of a club, society or similar group are likely to have children who score higher in tests for reading, maths and covabulary.   This finding comes from a study of 2700 families by the University of Sheffield. The explanation of the results is that if parents are involved in a club or [...]

We have a range of news services available for companies that sell into schools:  A daily news service – email education-direct-subscribe@yahoogroups.com A web site specifically on marketing into schools: www.educationmarketing.org.uk The Schools Blog: www.blog.schools.co.uk – and of course the Schools Web Site which contains the database of every school in the UK: www.schools.co.uk Recent stories [...]

A study by The University of Hull of 1300 children has suggested that dyslexia affects a far larger number of children than was previously expected.  In fact over half those who did not achieve expected levels in SATS tests displayed signs of being dyslexic. This raises an interesting question.  Supposing many more pupils and students [...]

The allegation that some schools are not obeying the admissions rules leads to the question: how did this happen? It seems to me there are three possible reasons as to how such a situation could have arisen. First, it is possible that someone at the very top of the school deliberately took the decision to [...]

 The Secretary of State for Education has announced a new Masters qualification: the Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL), and further steps to strengthen Diplomas and raise school standards. Now I’ve no problem with that – except that the group of people who really deserve the option to take further courses and qualifications are school administrators.   At [...]

Children behave better and are more independent if they live in areas with Sure Start Children’s Centres, according to an evaluation report. Other findings show that parents have more positive parenting skills and provide a better home learning environment for their children, helping prepare children to do well at school and make the most of their [...]

Surveys from supermarkets are not normally the stuff of educational research, but a piece by Tesco’s under its Tesco’s Computers for Schools brand seems to raise a few interesting points – and it did record results from over 1000 pupils and students aged between 7 and 16.It says that girls are now better at some areas of computing than [...]