Banks Get Bullish Chart Signal
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While trading with the trend carries a higher probability of success, you can occasionally find great opportunities by taking the contrarian approach to popular belief. When most people share the same bearish sentiment, that is usually when trends change.
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PointAndFigure Double Talk
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Point-and-figure (P%26F) charts have been a part of the technician’s toolbox for more than a century. They were used by Charles Dow in the late 1800s, and Victor deVilliers published the first detailed explanation of this technique in 1933 in his book, The Point %26 Figure Method of Anticipating Stock Price Movements. P%26F charts [...]
Advanced maths Alevel needed to stretch prodigies
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An advanced form of the maths A-level should be introduced to attract the prodigies who are not stretched by the current qualifications, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority said yesterday.Some 60% of teachers they questioned for their latest report on A-level maths said the qualifications had got easier since reforms in 2004. Teachers said pupils were [...]
Immersion is a difficult lesson
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It was an ambitious plan pushed through by Malaysia’s leader, Mahathir Mohamad, despite fierce opposition. Five years on the decision that all Malaysian children should be taught maths and science in English still causes heated debate.With an election looming, nationalist politicians are again seizing on the charged issue of language in an ethnically diverse country [...]
Popularity of boring geography on wane
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Geography teaching is in decline, with schoolchildren claiming it is “boring and irrelevant” and teachers avoiding field trips due to health and safety concerns, school inspectors report today.Pupils are failing to gain an understanding of climate change, environmentalism and global citizenship through lessons which are too often led by non-specialists, according to the study from [...]
Can we have economic growth alongside social cohesion
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Educational research institutions are not noted for picking grabby titles and the newest one - Learning and Life Chances in the Knowledge Economies and Societies - is hardly going to break that mould.But Llakes will be investigating one of the more compelling conundrums of human life: is it possible to enjoy the best of both [...]
Desperately seeking students
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Almost every day, scores of desperate teenagers tune in to Nippon Housou Kyokai - Japan’s equivalent of the BBC. Not for some light relief from schoolwork, but for a show that helps them to cram for tough university entrance exams.For how much longer though? Japan has one of the oldest and most well-respected higher education [...]
Heads face tougher rules on exclusion
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Headteachers will find it much more difficult to exclude children they suspect of serious offences such as drug dealing, carrying a knife or violent bullying if a major legal challenge is successful in the High Court.Lawyers say that children accused of the most serious wrongdoing are not being given a ‘fair trial’ and that government [...]
GCSE success masks fall in pupils picking harder subjects
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Headteachers yesterday blamed school league tables for a dramatic decline in the number of children taking languages.As the government published the latest tables for GCSE and A-levels in England, John Dunford, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said they created perverse incentives for schools to skew the curriculum for 14- and [...]
A league table to worry us all
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The results of the third phase of Pisa (Programme for International Student Assessment) make interesting reading. Every three years, Pisa tests 400,000 15-year-olds from 54 countries in reading, maths and science. Like all international assessments, Pisa has methodological and statistical limitations. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), however, uses elaborate procedures to ensure [...]
