Schools

Helping hands: How to rescue failing schools

Failing schools in the capital have been turned around by an imaginative programme that puts high-flying young graduates into the classroom. Now it's being rolled out across England.

Inside Schools

Education Quandary: 'Why are we excluding so many under-fives from school? It is ridiculous. Are their carers and nursery workers no good?'

Thursday, 20 November 2008

Mark Davies: Disaffected school children would be better off at work

Thursday, 13 November 2008

Last year you published an article in which I said that English schoolchildren were an alien species, being the rudest, most selfish, inconsiderate, presumptuous, arrogant and intractable group of people I had ever met, anywhere in the world ("English pupils are the rudest people I've met", EDUCATION & CAREERS, 8 February, 2007).

Leading Article: Skills and knowledge

Thursday, 13 November 2008

It is good to see the opening of a school that is genuinely trying to do new and interesting things with the curriculum. The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has finally put its money where its mouth is by launching an academy that is teaching skills and competencies rather than knowledge. Pupils can really get stuck into learning via the three-hour lessons, which, amazingly, they seem to like. It is not so surprising that they don't miss homework, the abolition of which was a brave move by the school. The evidence that homework helps children to learn has always been inconclusive.

Education Quandary: 'Will violent and vulgar TV programmes harm our teenagers?'

Thursday, 13 November 2008

Q. 'We are worried that our teenagers watch a lot of violent and vulgar TV programmes. Will it harm them? What's the evidence?'

Brave new world: Traditional classrooms, lessons - and even homework - have been expelled

Thursday, 13 November 2008

Tony Blair's vision of academies as innovative and free from state control became a reality last week.

Brain boxes: How digital technology can improve maths scores

Thursday, 6 November 2008

Computer games in maths lessons? One school has found they bring dramatic results.

Steve McCormack: Children are neglected as bureaucracy mounts

Thursday, 6 November 2008

On the day last week that newspapers and airwaves were at their most clogged with coverage of the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand affair, a report slipped out from the Audit Commission that should, arguably, have caused far more concern than a few obscene phone messages sent to a former Spanish waiter.