Posts on ‘July 10th, 2009’

Six in 10 parents are worried about the cost of keeping their children busy in the school holidays, a survey suggests.
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Police are interviewing children at a school where a teacher has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
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Use of mathematics A-level will not prepare students for university and should be scrapped, say professors
Academics are today calling on the government to abandon plans to introduce a new maths A-level, labelling it “weak” and “mindless”, and claiming it will not prepare pupils to study maths at university.
The new A-level, called “use of mathematics”, risks [...]

Youngsters and staff at a Shropshire nursery and pre-school were today celebrating being teacher’s pet after school inspectors branded it “outstanding” and ranked it in the top four per cent nationwide.
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