Education - ARCHIVE NEWS

Focus on child safeguarding is under fire | 05 March 2013
Plans to challenge local authority performance and take more youngsters into care have been criticised

Technology can improve school pupil attention but harm their health, say ministers | 26 February 2013
Classroom technology can help teachers keep the attention of their pupils. But sustained use of computers can also be detrimental to youngsters

Schools need to get their priorities right | 25 February 2013
Governors must focus on the big issues, such as quality of teaching and pupil progress, says Ofsted head

Top maths pupils falling way behind at 16 | 22 February 2013
The best maths pupils in England fall behind those in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, Scotland, Slovenia and Norway

Scottish students say no to independence | 22 February 2013
But just 13 per cent of students at a Scottish university took part in a mock referendum on independence

Ceop and Microsoft make child online safety support easier to access | 21 February 2013
The government's child protection body has been working with Microsoft to make it easier to report suspicious activity

Over-60s are urged to retrain at university | 21 February 2013
They would be more likely to keep working – and therefore not be a burden on the taxpayer, says Willetts

English schools lack learning critical WiFi | 20 February 2013
Three quarters of schools across England do not have the necessary standard of WiFi to deliver '21st Century learning'

Civil servants back striking over job cuts | 19 February 2013
Cuts are purely political and would mean misery for 1,000 Department for Education staff, says PCS

Pupil premium is used for chasing targets | 11 February 2013
A ''significant minority'' are struggling to show how the money is making any meaningful impact, says Ofsted

Unreliable missing children data 'profoundly worries' Ofsted chief | 08 February 2013
Flawed data held by councils and police forces requires urgent action, says Sir Michael Wilshaw

2.3m poorest kids are "not being counted" | 08 February 2013
Government needs to revise its approach to collecting child poverty data, according to an influential think tank.

'E-readers better than print for elderly people' | 07 February 2013
Electronic reading devices allow older people to read more easily, says research

Shortage of decent computing teachers still sparks worries | 07 February 2013
Concerns about a lack of specialist computing teachers are still being voiced as the government opens its National Curriculum consultation

Gove scraps his 'English Baccalaureates' | 07 February 2013
The DfE has dropped plans to replace some GCSEs with an English Baccalaureate Certificate

Ofsted outlines school support checks | 05 February 2013
Ofsted has published proposals for a new inspection regime targeting local authority school improvement services.

'Primary schools should teach internet safety' | 05 February 2013
Dangers from social media, sexting, online porn, abuse, and cyber bullying mean that all schools need to teach internet safety, says charity

Children's lives devastated by online abuse – but parents can act, says Ceop | 04 February 2013
Online sex abuse is leaving some children feeling suicidal, warns child protection body

Computer science will be in the Ebacc, says Gove | 01 February 2013
Computer science will be included in the English Baccalaureate, Education Secretary Michael Gove has confirmed

Computer science should be in primary schools, says Microsoft | 30 January 2013
Children should be taught computer science skills as early as their primary school years, says Microsoft