January 19, 2017 at 07:36AM Can a group of Swiss teenagers find a solution to housing displaced people, using virtual reality? Video journalist: Joe Miller at the World Economic Forum in Davos from BBC News – Education & Family http://ift.tt/2jscvUovia IFTTT
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January 19, 2017 at 05:23AMOne of my aims as a teacher is to get my pupils to cultivate their curiosity. This stems from my belief that the reality we inhabit is full of wonder and beauty and that we, as a species, have spent millennia trying to make sense of it. Curiosity will continue to
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January 18, 2017 at 11:37PM Parents can choose not to be complicit in building border controls in our playgrounds – and so can schools, says Martha Spurrier. The spring school census started this week. For the second time this academic year, parents and guardians have been asked to share their children’s nationalities and countries of
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January 18, 2017 at 09:09PM My wife, Denise Lesley, who has died of ovarian cancer aged 65, started her professional life as a teacher. When head of geography at Hurlingham school in Fulham, south-west London, she was seconded in 1979 to the Inner London Education Authority’s television centre in Battersea, where teachers were trained in
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January 18, 2017 at 08:36PM More than half of established multi-academy trusts fell “significantly below” the average for pupil progress, with a host of the country’s largest trusts among the worst performers at secondary level. The government has today published its multi-academy trust (MAT) performance league tables, based on 2016 exam results. The analysis is