Too much too young
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What did your child do at nursery today? Dressing up? Messing around in the sandpit? Perhaps baking fairy cakes? Or was he or she learning to read and write?Under new government guidelines for early-years education, three- and four-year-olds should be taught to “form simple sentences, sometimes using punctuation”, and write in different forms such as [...]
Recognising the good of small schools
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School size should be a big issue in 2008. The debate about small school closures may not be new but it is about to come into sharper focus. The drive to reduce surplus places and the public spending squeeze have pushed several councils to explore school rationalisation.That is why the National Association for Small Schools [...]
Disputes simmer ahead of pay claims
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Whatever sympathy college lecturers might feel for schoolteachers in their pay grievances will no doubt be blunted by an old sense of unfairness.Further education teachers continue to resent the gap between their salaries and what their counterparts in schools earn. Though this has narrowed from 10% or so five years ago to between 6% and [...]
Indias outsourcing revenue at 50 bln by 2012study
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But a skills shortage, creaky infrastructure in smaller
towns and cities and rapidly rising wages are major challenges.
The sector has logged 35 percent annual growth over the
last five years to hit annual revenues of about $11 billion,
with the bulk coming from exports, said the study by leading IT
lobby group Nasscom and consulting firm Everest.
[...]
Neet solution
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January is the toughest month for colleges. Cold mornings can easily crumble the resolve of students who were not absolutely committed in September but stuck it out until the festive season.Teaching staff expect to be hitting phones to track down errant members of their classes who have not shown up after Christmas. Last term’s students [...]
Uncool gym kit puts girls off school sport
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Girls will continue to play sport into their teens if they can wear fashionable black and pink hoodies and tracksuit bottoms instead of pleated skirts, shorts or white T-shirts, says Dame Kelly Holmes, who today launches a prototype for the ideal modern PE kit.After speaking to girls across the country, the Olympic gold medallist argues [...]
Letters
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No democracy for the NUSThe NUS leadership condemns critics of its plans for governance changes as the “hard left” (New year, new union, January 8). Many of the dissenters are, in fact, moderates, at least on the student politics scale - people like the Young Greens, who have no truck with hard-left factionalism.The critics object [...]
Tara Brabazon Bowling Google a googly
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It comes as no surprise to learn that Germaine Greer is featured in Ladies Who Lunge, one of Professor Tara Brabazon’s growing pile of published works. Like Greer, Brabazon is an iconoclastic Australian who has hit these shores with some force and begun to make waves in her own branch of academia. That book, says [...]
News
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Learning platforms’Free’ digital bankA comprehensive bank of copyright-free resources has been tagged ready for use with learning platforms in a new initiative from North West Learning Grid and the city learning centres in Manchester and Salford. Materials will range from tutorials, activities and interactive games covering entire courses through individual photographs, audio clips and worksheets. [...]
Men at work
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Toddlers are climbing, swinging and chasing each other on a Saturday morning in the sunny garden of a children’s centre. Some are viewing the landscape from their dads’ shoulders. In the kitchen, young men are sitting around a low table on tiny chairs, chatting and laughing, the babies on their laps poking their fingers into [...]
