http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/ India's FIRST and ONLY dedicated educational news site en-us 2007 National Network of Education Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:19:17 GMT Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:19:17 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/Progressive_education_under_attack_2863/ As leaders of state secondary schools, and therefore presumably fully paid-up members of the "educational establishment" to which Michael Gove referred in his speech to the Conservative party conference (Report, 8 October), we would like to challenge the image of the state education sector he portra... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:19:17 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/S.C._GED_pass_rate_at_73_percent,_meets_national_levels_2858/ The S.C. Department of Education announced Thursday that 73 percent of South Carolinians passed the GED test, meeting the national pass rate for the first time in S.C. history. This year's passing rate was an increase from 68.8 percent in 2008. South Carolina is now ranked 32nd among the 50 states... Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:24:15 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/Gove's_plan_to_set_schools_free_2853/ Michael Gove, MP for Surrey Heath, is the man of the Tory moment. One of the few to be mentioned by name in David Cameron's conference speech this week, in a Conservative government he will be at the forefront of an agenda aimed at fundamentally restructuring the state. As I argue on the front page ... Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:18:08 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/UCL_named_'world's_fourth_best'_2842/ The university has climbed three places since 2008 in The Times Higher Education Magazine's annual list. Imperial College London came in fifth along with Oxford. London School of Economics was rated as the top specialist social science university. The city institutes were beaten by Harvard at nu... Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:23:53 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/Asian_universities_“snapping_at_the_heels”_of_UK,_US_universities_2838/ London: Though UK and US universities have been where students have preferred to study over the past few years, Asian universities are posing a tough challenge with academia advancing in the region. In the QS/Times Higher Education rankings, released on Thursday, the UK still comes second only to ... Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:19:24 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/Pupils_told_to_bring_own_toilet_paper_to_school_2834/ Pupils in a Co Cork school are being asked to bring their own toilet paper to school to help offset funding cutbacks. The principal of St John's Girls National School in Carrigaline, Co Cork, confirmed she had sent out a memo to parents last week requesting that their daughters occasionally bring ... Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:34:44 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/Michael_Gove's_ruinous_plans_for_education_2826/ Michael Gove delivered a speech at the Conservative party conference which played to the prejudices of his audience. His oration was peppered again and again with talk of how the Labour party has failed the country in creating schools which lack discipline and high standards and fail to make our chi... Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:26:17 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/Oxford_University_in_land-grabbing_row_for_its_Indian_campus_2732/ London: Oxford University's first overseas campus in India, which is going to be set up in Lavasa near Pune, has been embroiled in a land grabbing row, with accusations of human rights violations against the land developers. Oxford's outgoing vice-chancellor, John Hood, has been a strong backer of ... Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:26:53 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/Failing_grades_indict_general_education_system_2731/ Students are constantly being graded to assess their performance. Just about every measureable quality, no matter how minute, is weighted and factored into a letter grade intended to objectively represent a student's total input in a class. And no matter how clear the syllabus and course requirement... Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:26:00 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/Teenagers_could_appeal_against_school_exclusions_2718/ Teenagers could soon get the right to launch their own appeals against being excluded from school. The proposed change to the rules worries teachers' leaders, who believe that it could further undermine their authority when tackling indiscipline in the classroom. Children over the age of 16 alre... Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:20:11 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/Conservatives_want_to_revive_educational_divide,_claims_Ed_Balls_2700/ Ed Balls marks the publication of this year's GCSE results tomorrow with a scathing attack on the Conservatives' education plans, claiming they want to revive a two-tiered school system relegating millions of children to take "second-class" exams. The first generation of children to be entirely edu... Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:45:57 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/Travel_scheme_helps_students_across_UK_visit_Parliament_2510/ A pilot travel subsidy scheme designed to enable pupils from outside the south east to make educational visits to the Houses of Parliament has been snapped up by schools across the UK. Since the majority of school visitors have historically come from Greater London and the south east, the scheme wa... Thu, 07 May 2009 05:35:31 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/Don't_banish_English,_Amartya_Sen_tells_Mulayam_2476/ London: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen Monday criticised Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's campaign pledge to banish the use of English in Uttar Pradesh, saying such a move would only deepen existing divisions between the haves and have-nots in the state. 'I don't know what Mulayam Singh Yada... Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:40:47 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/Academic_study_to_confirm_concerns_about_current_faith_schools_policy_2435/ A report by two academic institutions, to be published later this week, argues that faith schools fail to improve standards and create "social sorting" of children along lines of class, ability and religion or belief. The researchers behind the study unveiled some of its headline findings on Frida... Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:28:35 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/Billions_'wasted'_on_education_in_Scotland_2432/ Billions of pounds of investment in education in Scotland since devolution has been wasted, according to a leading independent think-tank. Analysis by Reform Scotland shows that despite a doubling in the amount spent per primary and secondary pupil, attainment levels have remained flat. "It is cle... Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:25:27 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/Climate_for_Learning_Survey_Helps_Students_Prepare_for_Future_2371/ LEXINGTON − About 8,000 students have been invited to voice their opinion through the University of Kentucky's 2009 Climate for Learning Survey. "Administrators and faculty members want to know how students perceive the social atmosphere on campus as well as the educational and co-curricular ... Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:34:57 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/ESRI_-UK_boosts_education_support_with_...._2368/ ESRI (UK) boosts education support with acquisition of Digital Worlds ESRI (UK), the market leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) solutions, has acquired Digital Worlds International (DWI) Ltd, a leader in the development and delivery of GIS as a teaching tool for UK schools. The deal wi... Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:30:47 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/UK-funded_study_shines_light_on_sun's_million-degree_corona_2317/ The increase in temperature from approximately 6000 degrees on the visible surface of the Sun (photosphere) to well over a million degrees in the higher overlaying solar corona, has remained at the forefront of astrophysical research for over half a century. However, new observations of the lower at... Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:52:53 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/MPs_warn_of_diploma_disruption_to_school_travel_2284/ The Commons transport committee cautioned that the diplomas will require pupils to travel to multiple sites. Ina report examining school travel, the MPs said it was "disappointing"that the government had not put better planning in place before rollingout diplomas. And the report urged ministers ... Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:36:44 GMT http://www.edunews.net/United_Kingdom/Girls_are_better_off_at_single-sex_schools_2259/ London: When it comes to academic performance, girls studying in single sex schools are better off than their co-ed counterparts, according to a study. The analysis of the GCSE scores of more than 700,000 girls taught in the state sector revealed that those at girls' schools consistently made more ... Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:51:39 GMT