Transportation Group Calls For School Bus Safety Improvements
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A transportation group is accusing the state Education Department of not keeping its training programs for school-bus drivers up to date.
The state annually sets aside $400,000 for school-bus-driver safety training through the Education Department and a database of accidents. In 2007-08, more than $159,000 of the total was not spent, said Peter Mannella, executive director [...]
Parliament Passes Education Law
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Slovak Parliament approved an Act on Education and Training that was drafted by the Education Ministry with the aim of revamping the school system. The new Act will substitute 20-year-old legislation that was introduced in the former communist Czechoslovakia.
Innovations at schools will be introduced via new curricula as the key element of the reforms. The [...]
Software books and equipment reviews
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HyperwordsBrowser plug-in (PC, Mac, Linux)cross-curricularManufacturer: Firefoxhyperwords.netPrice: FreeHyperwords is a Firefox browser plug-in that takes all the words you encounter on the internet and makes each one interactive. Working in Firefox, you can use your mouse to click on any word or phrase to discover more. Think how useful that can be to the digital kids [...]
Finance lessons edged out by time deficit
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Parents brought up in the days when there were student grants and money was a dirty word may be a little worried by the way the workaday world of business and finance seems to be creeping into their children’s education. With an extra E for economics being added to the confusing subject area known as [...]
A tiny revolution
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Arrive at the entrance to St Mary’s RC primary school in Grangetown, Middlesborough, and you’d think a bomb had gone off. In fact, around half the school has had to be demolished after a devastating arson attack last October causing almost %26pound;1m worth of damage. Currently without hall, ICT suite or library, its 150 pupils [...]
Grow your own diploma
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Three years after Tony Blair kicked the Tomlinson diploma into the long grass, it is back in a new guise, sneaked in under the wire by a college principal and a canny exam board.While public servants and examiners work against the clock to deliver the government’s three new academic diplomas on top of the original [...]
The next big thing
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Name: Lucy HoughtonAge: 20Education: BA in politics and communication studies, University of Liverpool. A-levels: media studies (A); English literature (B); history (C); French (D); Collingwood College, Camberley, Surrey. GCSEs: 10 Seeking: A career in the media, ideally as a Blue Peter presenterLucy Houghton got a welcome present on her 18th birthday - good A-level results. [...]
Arts education described as vital: State work force needs creativity
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Wisconsin needs to cultivate an innovative, entrepreneurial work force, and arts education is the key, Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton said Friday.
A new task force on arts and creativity, co-chaired by Lawton and state schools Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster, plans to survey arts offerings in Wisconsin schools, hold public hearings around the state, and issue a list [...]
A sector divided on the path ahead
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If you have ever wanted to share the collective fantasies of the country’s college principals, you’ll need to get to Birmingham smartish. All 400 or so of them have been invited to spend today trying to envisage the shape of further education in 2020. Their host, John Denham, secretary of state for innovation, universities and [...]
A classic case of undersupply
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Back in 1965, Oxford and Cambridge decreed that applicants no longer required O-level Latin to gain admission to their hallowed halls and cloisters. The following year saw the founding of the Cambridge School Classics Project (CSCP) with the aim of keeping alive not only the flickering flame of classical culture, but also a language that [...]
