Here are links to some education related news articles from this week:
- Nursery food warning – There are concerns over the quality of food in England’s nurseries.
- Rise in ‘lonely children’ – Childline is receiving increasing numbers of calls from children who feel they are lonely.
- A-Level marking concerns – A rising number of teachers are worried about the quality of A-level marking.
- Universities facing budget cuts – Unions warn of job cuts and students missing out on places.
- Action urged over legal drug – Head teachers have called for urgent action over the legal drug mephedrone following the deaths of two teenagers.
- 2Simple announce Purple Mash – The software company announced their new product this week, giving pupils online access to ‘a mash-up of creative tools and curriculum-focused applications to support and inspire children throughout the curriculum’.
- The Queen invented the phone – A survey of primary and secondary pupils in the UK reveals some interesting misconceptions!
- Child fitness tests in schools – England’s chief medical officer says that fitness tests should be given to secondary pupils to help them to be more active.
- Pupils are ‘well drilled automatons’ – A public school headteacher feels that state schools are ‘turning out young people “incapable of living full and autonomous lives”‘.
- Latin back on the curriculum? – Boris Johnson wants to see Latin on the state school curriculum.
