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A poll of more than 1,000 teachers and school support staff found that the vast majority – 91% – have reached into their own pocket to buy items for the classroom.  More than half said the items they buy are essential for their job, a similar proportion said it was because the children were interested [...]

Schools need to move with the times and teach much secondary school Information Communication Technology (ICT) knowledge earlier at primary, said Sir Jim Rose in a major report published yesterday.   The report also says that summer-born children should start primary school the September after their fourth birthday and some children should start part-time.   [...]

A poll by Barnardo’s shows that society casually condemns all children, with more than half the population (54%) thinking that British children are beginning to behave like animals. The research conducted by YouGov shows that the public holds a negative view of all children, despite the vast majority of children making positive contributions to their communities, attending school, [...]

  Following consultation by the Children’s Rights Director for England, Roger Morgan, with 686 children and young people who came to the national children’s conference in July 2008, a new report has been published, highlighting that children living away from home, or using social care services, want to feel safer online, be protected from unsuitable sites [...]

The vast majority of children who will go on to experience serious deprivation in their adult years can now be identified by the age of 10, a new report suggests.   Researchers at the Institute of Education, University of London, believe that between 70 per cent and 90 per cent of youngsters heading for blighted adulthoods [...]

The findings of the third survey of more than 15,000 children born in the UK during the first two years of the new millennium was published today. The third Millennium Cohort Study survey was carried out by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, when the children were aged 5. It [...]

A report, by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), from October 2007 and then more recently based on the GCSE results, drew on administrative data from the entire state school population in England has shown a clear gap, in terms of education results, between children born in August and those born in September. IFS research [...]

Research published by the NAHT suggests 86% of school leaders think Ofsted pressures deter would-be head teachers. The current OFSTED regime encouraged schools to deny problems for fear of being publicly shamed said Mick Brookes. He said: “We do need to dare to be creative; we do need to shake off the oppressive burdens of [...]

Black pupils should get extra help so they progress faster than their classmates, a government report says. The strategy paper says all schools have a duty to narrow the achievement gap under the Race Relations Act. Black pupils do worse than white ones even when class is accounted for – 25% of black Caribbean boys [...]

Schools are now acutely sensitive to most forms of gender-stereotyping. Girls can join football teams, boys can play netball, and cookery lessons are open to all. But not enough is yet being done to challenge the stereotypes that influence children’s choice of musical instruments, researchers say. Nearly nine in ten flute-players in English schools are [...]