Posts on ‘March 10th, 2010’

Teachers urged to drop ‘chalk and talk’ technique and let pupils mirror methods of actors by walking around
Eleven-year-olds are to learn Shakespeare using techniques employed by RSC actors, and English teachers will be encouraged to let pupils walk around the classroom rather than reading the plays while sitting at their desks.
Exercises devised by the Royal [...]

Cardinal deplores initiative for ‘trivialising sexuality’ as headmaster of Kepler school urges others to follow
For its critics in the Vatican, it is a matter of “deep concern”. For its proponents, it is “evidence of great courage”.
Amid national controversy, the Kepler scientific secondary school today became the first in the Italian education system to install [...]

It is better for children to go to the same secondary school as their friends, says education secretary

School lotteries can be destabilising for children and bad for their welfare, the schools secretary, Ed Balls, told MPs today.
Balls said he was sceptical about a wholesale move towards a system of allocating all secondary school places on [...]

A BBC Newsnight poll suggests that the Tories are failing to win over voters unsatisfied with Labour’s record on education.
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Judgments from schools inspected last term lead teachers’ unions to accuse Ofsted of ‘moving the goalposts’
One in seven secondary schools inspected last term were branded inadequate under a new regime honing in on teaching quality and pupil progress, the schools watchdog, Ofsted, revealed today.
Only half of all the 2,140 schools visited were judged to be [...]

More than 700 schools across the UK - and some international schools - are taking part in BBC School Report News Day.
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More schools in England are being judged as inadequate in Ofsted’s new-style inspections, according to figures just released.
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Half the schools inspected since the beginning of the school year have failed to get good marks from inspectors for the first time ever, figures revealed today.

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Lottery admissions can be destabilising for children and bad for their welfare, the Schools Secretary, Ed Balls, says.
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Limited funding having an impact on the achievements of Soroti district’s 5,000 children with special needs
Inadequate funding is a major barrier to a decent education for children with special needs in rural communities, authorities in Soroti have said.
The number of children with special needs is on the increase every year, but little is being done [...]