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Cyber-Bullying: The Latest Evidence
We have noted previously that statistics on bullying are hard to obtain and that the Commons Education and Skills Committee has identified two types of bullying of particular concern: cyber-bullying and prejudice-driven bullying. The following is the latest research on the former from academics here...
John Hayward Posted: 3 August 2011 No comments
Keywords: Education, Lifestyle Issues, Science & Technology,
What is the Big Society Way to Improve Education?
When David Cameron relaunched the Big Society Agenda in a speech given in Milton Keynes on Monday he spoke about the government’s education policy and how it fits into the Big Society: ‘We’re not introducing free schools and expanding Academies because it’s a way of saving money...
Mary Brown Posted: 27 May 2011 3 comments
Keywords: Education, Government & Foreign Affairs,
Call for Wider Access to Faith Schools
The Bishop of Oxford solicited widespread and varied reactions when on Good Friday the TES published an article in which he expressed his desire to see the number of places reserved for children from church-going families in Church of England Schools limited to 10%. Some, especially secularists, saw...
Mary Brown Posted: 28 April 2011 6 comments
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Education,
Safe Sex Education Recommendations
The primary school at which I am a parent governor is currently revising the materials it uses for sex and relationships education, in recognition that the 1970s BBC videos that it has been using in recent years are very outdated. The school is likely to use the excellent SRE unit from the International...
John Hayward Posted: 29 March 2011 4 comments
Keywords: Education, Sex & Families,
Christians Need Re-education
On Monday two High Court judges ruled that homosexual rights 'should take precedence' over the right not to be discriminated against on religious grounds, albeit under very limited circumstances. Eunice and Owen Johns had previously raised four of their own children and provided foster care for nearly...
John Hayward Posted: 1 March 2011 4 comments
Keywords: Crime & Justice, Education, Sex & Families,
The Morally Indefensible Normalising of Debt
We have previously questioned whether increased university tuition fees are fair and noted that Muslim warnings against tuition fee interest charges present a challenge to Christians. It was therefore pleasing to hear the contributions of some of the bishops to the Lords debate on the Higher Education...
John Hayward Posted: 16 December 2010 2 comments
Keywords: Education, Finance & the Economy,
Social Class and Parenting
Parents' social class has a greater impact on how well their children perform at school than 'good parenting' techniques such as reading bedtime stories, claim researchers from the University of London's Institute of Education. In actual fact the study of around 11,000 seven-year-old children simply...
John Hayward Posted: 7 December 2010 1 comment
Keywords: Education, Finance & the Economy, Sex & Families,
Education White Paper on Bullying
Statistics on bullying are hard to obtain. Beatbullying recently claimed that 69 per cent of children in the UK report being bullied and 87 per cent of parents report that their child had been bullied in the past 12 months; in contrast, the NSPCC reports that 31 per cent of children experience bullying...
John Hayward Posted: 26 November 2010 3 comments
Keywords: Education, Lifestyle Issues,
The Importance Of Teaching
Yesterday Ofsted informed us that too much teaching 'is dull and uninspiring and this makes it harder for pupils to learn,' and that teaching is 'a big factor in poor behaviour as well as uneven exam results ... Too many schools tolerate pockets of poor teaching alongside good practice.' Today's education...
John Hayward Posted: 24 November 2010 No comments
Keywords: Education,
Student Riots: Political Activism or Merely Consumerism?
Yesterday saw about 50,000 students protest against future increases in university tuition fees. Some hailed this as a return to the great tradition of student social action and drew links with the recent public riots in France over their raised age of retirement. Others noted that the students' self-interested...
John Hayward Posted: 11 November 2010 1 comment
Keywords: Education, Government & Foreign Affairs,
Rakesh on 29 Aug 2012
The courts have a long hsoitry of overturning legislation that's based on fear, discrimination and/or...
Jane on 30 May 2012
I’m about to start a campaign with the British Youth Council to make more aspects of sex and relationships...
Rayann on 26 Sep 2011
A bit surprised it seems to smpile and yet useful.