by Chris Rogers | 30 Jan 2014 | Economy, Education & Children's Services
A report by the British Chamber of Commerce has recommended that lessons in careers should be given to primary school children in order to promote “employability” in schools. The organisation argues that there should be encouragement for schools to set up visits to...
by Chris Rogers | 30 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services
The Government’s free school meals programme has been criticised after the Department of Education revealed that £150 million was given to schools regardless of whether they needed new facilities to provide food for pupils. The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg MP...
by Chris Rogers | 29 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services
The National Audit Office has published a report concluding that the Education Funding Agency (EFA) will need to find a further £6m to complete their survey of the condition of school buildings across England. The NAO said that this was primarily because the EFA had...
by Chris Rogers | 28 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services
A report from Dr Andrew Davis, from Durham University’s School of Education, has found that the interests of able readers are being damaged by an insistence on teaching primary phonics. Dr Davis claimed that rival camps in the debate over how to teach children to read...
by Chris Rogers | 27 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services
City & Guilds, a skills charity, has conducted a six-month review of England’s education system, led by an independent advisory group made up of business leaders and chaired by Prof Sir Roy Anderson – a biologist. Their report resulted from a survey of...
