By Alistair Owens Managing Director keen2learn educational games Food labels are now awash with details of the ingredients, what’s good and bad, high in this, low in that and percentages of daily allowances. Could this extend to video games to show the percentage of educational content contained in the games. The skills of the [...]
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Pay Principles Plague Educational Principals
By Alistair Owens keen2learn educational games Last year some university vice chancellors enjoyed a nominal 10% pay rise. With inflation at 2.8% the net effect was a substantial increase. Their educational work load remained unchanged thus the residual award over inflation was basically for being there. Understandably lecturers and students now faced with cutbacks in [...]
"End Of Term School Reports Are History"
Alistair Owens Managing Director keen2learn By the time a parent receives the end of term or year school report a huge chance to help correct a child’s performance may have been lost. A recent survey by BECTA* shows 82% of parents want more information about their child’s progress at school. The survey involved 1000 [...]
Poacher Banker Turned Teacher Gamekeeper In Educational Market
By Alistair Owens Managing Director keen2learn The recent influx of recruits from the banking sector into teaching could be the best thing in educating our children to understand money. Reducing the shortfall in teachers, these recruits may also be ideal candidates to take on the role of business mangers to support or take on a [...]
Educational Games To Defuse the Classroom Bully
It’s time to get up, pull on the school uniform and the tie with that dreaded knot – the special knot that would otherwise show you up. Downstairs you eat the breakfast your oblivious parents have prepared on automatic drive, grab the school bag, say goodbye to “Frazzle” the dog who looks back with those [...]
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