January 22, 2017 at 08:24AM Nearly two-thirds of school leaders believe their budgets will be “untenable” in two years’ time, a survey has revealed. The Breaking Point survey, published by the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), also found more than double the number of schools say they were in debt compared to the previous […]
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January 22, 2017 at 08:03AM Chair of women and equalities committee launches campaign amid concern over harassment and violence in schools A leading Conservative MP fears the government’s preoccupation with Brexit is holding up vital plans to make sex and relationships education (SRE) compulsory in all schools. Maria Miller, chair of the women and equalities
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One of the highlights of my day at researchED Amsterdam was hearing Paul Kirschner speak about edu-myths. He began his presentation by forbidding the use of laptops or mobile phones, explaining that taking notes electronically leads to poorer recall than handwritten notes. The benefits of handwritten over typed notes include better immediate recall as well as improved
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January 22, 2017 at 05:45AMAs I walked out of my office, for the last time on the final day of my first ever Ofsted inspection as a Head, I made some off the cuff gag to the governors waiting and the Lead Inspector slapped me on the back and said ‘I can’t believe he’s still
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January 22, 2017 at 02:39AM The post advertised by Cambridge University is not for the “world’s first professor of play”, as your story claims (Apply now for the most coveted job in education, 17 January). That title rightly belongs to either Fraser Brown of Leeds Beckett University, where he has been professor of playwork since
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January 22, 2017 at 01:03AM Listen to this post as a podcast (sponsored by Kiddom):http://ift.tt/2jd42Gh It’s that time again!! To celebrate the launch of my brand-new, fully redesigned Teacher’s Guide to Tech, I’m hand-picking six ed tech tools that deserve more teachers’ attention. These are not all brand-new tools, but I thought each one
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January 22, 2017 at 12:22AM Members of dance troupe Diversity were the hosts at a recent event that celebrated the achievements of more than 60 pupils in Academy Transformation Trust (ATT) schools. Pupils from 20 of the trust’s academies received their awards at a Birmingham Council House ceremony. Hosted by Diversity dancers, Jordan Banjo and
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January 21, 2017 at 10:29PM Last week, I wrote about the difficulties of educational research, and why we need more information on the circumstances in which research has been conducted. After I had written that article, Daisy (Christodoulou) pointed out that E.D. Hirsch makes a related point in his article ‘Classroom results and cargo cults’.
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