The decline in language learning in England’s secondary schools has been halted but the situation is “turbulent”, a report says.
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Posts on ‘December 3rd, 2008’
‘Turbulence’ in school languages
Study saying universities are not hotbeds of Islamic radicalism was widely informed
June Edmunds responds to Anthony Glees
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Education reforms set in train
Plans to boost apprenticeships, increase local accountability and give schools greater search powers are laid out.
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100,000 fewer students paid EMAs
Figures released in response to a Conservative question outline the delay in education maintenance allowance payments.
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Left-handed pupils do worse than right-handed classmates
Left-handed pupils perform worse at school than their right-handed classmates, academics have found.
Researchers at Bristol University made 10,000 children sit an IQ test and compared their national exam results at the ages of seven, 11 and 14.
The left-handed children scored about 1% lower in the tests than their right-handed peers.
Pupils for whom neither hand [...]
No increase in take-up of languages
The number of teenagers dropping languages at GCSE has not increased, but there is little sign of any improvement despite efforts to raise interest, new research suggests.
Teenagers at state schools dropped foreign languages in droves after ministers made the subject optional for pupils over 14 in 2004, though languages have remained popular subjects in private [...]
Queen’s speech bills: education
The children, skills and learning bill will transfer funding for 16- to 18-year-olds who are taught in colleges rather than schools to local authorities.
The move, designed to ensure that all children up until 19 are the responsibility of their local authority, has been met with caution from college heads, who fear that authorities already [...]
Queen’s speech bills: welfare, health and child poverty
David Hencke, John Carvel and Allegra Stratton round up the legislation regarding benefits, the NHS and poverty targets announced today
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100,000 teenagers still waiting for grants
More than 100,000 teenagers are still awaiting grants almost three months after they were due to be paid, it was disclosed today.
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One student waits for education maintenance allowance
Despite having sent not one but two applications, Hannah Smith, 17, still has no idea whether she is going to get an education maintenance allowance this year.
“It’s a real pain because last year it went through so well and so efficiently,” she says.
Smith qualified for the full £30 a week in her first year studying [...]