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| The number of students taking Religious Studies A-level has showed the biggest percentage rise in candidates of any subject this summer with an increase of 5.9 per cent since 2007.Some 81 per cent of more than 20,100 students are celebrating an A-C grade (against 82 per cent in 2007). | |
| Education | The Church of England Newspaper – August 22nd |
| Details of a government initiative to give disadvantaged children free computers and internet access were announced today. Schools minister Jim Knight said the programme would begin in February with two year-long pilot schemes in Oldham and Suffolk. Grants will be provided to allow families to buy an “approved home access package” which will include a computer or laptop, basic software and broadband access for one year. | |
| Education | The Sentinel - 21st October 2008 |
| Schoolchildren are to be given lessons in managing their money under a new Government initiative. The £11.5 million programme will see youngsters taught about dealing with financial matters from when they start school through to university, or when they begin working. The My Money Initiative will also help parents to answer their child’s financial questions. | |
| Education | The Sentinel - 22nd October 2008 |
| The Rev. Tim Hastie-Smith, chairman of the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC), which represents 250 independent schools across the country, has criticised the removal of God from the British education system and the rise of a consumerist culture that eschews personal responsibility. Speaking at the HMC’s annual gathering in London Mr Hastie-Smith, Head of Dean Close School, Cheltenham, lamented that a generation ‘nurtured on nannying government’ was incapable of taking responsibility and blamed others for it’s own short comings. | |
| Education | Salvationist - 11th October 2008 |
| Faith schools should be forced to open their doors to pupils and staff who do not sign up for their ethos, said a new coalition of teachers groups and think tanks in September. The new coalition, Accord, says that faith schools – which often out-perform other schools – should not be able to “discriminate” against students and teachers on the grounds of their beliefs. | |
| Education | Evangelicals Now & The Christian Institute – October 2008 |
| During August, ten MPs wrote to The Daily Telegraph requesting that sex education be made compulsory for children as young as four. The Government is conducting a review of sex education, and liberal organisations are pressing for compulsory sex education in primary schools. | |
| Education | Evangelicals Now & Prayer Digest – October 2008 |
| Children spend so little time outdoors, they are more likely to recognise a Dalek than a barn owl, a survey revealed today. The National Trust found just 53 per cent of youngsters could correctly identify an oak leaf, while half could not tell the difference between a bee and a wasp. Only 47 per cent correctly named a barn owl, but nine out of 10 were able to correctly name Doctor Who’s old enemies and Yoda from Star Wars. | |
| Education | The Sentinel - July 8th 2008 |
| The English language will celebrate its one-millionth word within a year, experts say. At present there are 995,844 official words, with the millionth word predicted to arrive on 29th April 2009. The average person is said to use fewer than 14,000 words and even the linguistically gifted use only about 70,000 words – which leaves a lot unsaid! | |
| Education | Evangelical Times - August 2008 |
| A scheme to refurbish or rebuild every secondary school in England by 2020 may be undermined by poor design. According to The Commission For Architecture And The Built Environment, eight out of 10 designs under the £35 billion Building Schools for The Future initiative are “mediocre” or “not yet good enough”, while fewer than a fifth are rated “good” or “excellent”. | |
| Education | The Sentinel - July 21st 2008 |
| Decades of dumbing down in education have cost the economy £9 billion as hundreds of thousands of teenagers turn their back on maths, a report warned today. Every teenager who drops the subject at A-level misses out on £136,000 in lifetime earnings. Since 1990 a “lost generation” of nearly 440,000 pupils has given up maths at a cost to the economy of £9 billion. | |
| Education | The Sentinel - June 3rd 2008 |
| Campaigners have slammed education chiefs who banned school sack and three legged races because of health and safety fears. Teachers at John F Kennedy Primary in Washington, Tyne and Wear, dropped the races amid fears a child would fall over and be hurt. It followed talks with the Beamish Open Air Museum, where the event will be staged. | |
| Education | The Sentinel - July 14th 2008 |
| A new resource is set to bring an Alpha-style Christianity course to Britain’s classrooms. Born out of the partnership between Youth for Christ and youth Alpha, exploRE is a multi-media resource for use with 11-to-14 year olds within the context of RE lessons. The series of 12 lessons allows students to explore key aspects of the Christian faith, raising questions such as, ‘Is there a God?’ and ‘What about suffering?’ The course structure allows the students space to discuss and debate the issues, with a view that they might move someway toward finding answers for themselves. | |
| Education | Youthwork - August 2008 |
| Parents believe the English education system provides too little choice and is too frequently run in the interests of politicians, not children. The pole comes with the release of a new report by think-tank Policy Exchange, which argues there is too much central Government intervention in schools at the expense of teachers. | |
| Education | The Sentinel March 10th 2008 |
| A web-based game that encourages girls as young as nine to create virtual characters who embrace plastic surgery and extreme dieting in the search for the perfect figure has been condemmed as lethal by parents’ groups and health care experts. The Miss Bimbo site has attracted young girls who then buy their virtual characters breast enlargement surgery and keep them “waif thin” with diet pills. Almost half of 11-14 year olds are told off by parents for not engaging with “proper books”. However, National Year of Reading and online teen community Piczo complied a survey which found that young people enjoyed reading everything from film scripts and lyrics to traditional literature. | |
| Education | Youth Work May 2008 |
| Many school children could be failing reading and writing tests because they are unaware they are dyslexic, new research suggests. A study by Hull University academics of 1,300 children said dyslexia was a major cause of failure. Over half those who did not achieve expected levels in SATS tests displayed all the signs of being dyslexic. | |
| Education | The Sentinel - March 14th 2008 |
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