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Education

Struggling with the nine times table? I have a failsafe method | Adrian Chiles

21 May at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

Apparently, nines are the hardest to grasp for primary school children. If only they’d learned how to cheat like me

Maths was never my thing. I quite enjoyed it at O-level, to the extent that I chose to do it at A-level. As early as the first week of the A-level course, however, it became abundantly clear that the subject was quite beyond me. I simply couldn’t make head or tail of what the...

Schools are ‘pipeline’ to joblessness for many people, says ex-Labour adviser

21 May at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Ban social media and reform education to tackle scandal of young people not in work or study, says Peter Hyman

Schools have become a “pipeline” to worklessness for a large cohort of young people in the UK, according to an influential former Labour adviser who has called for urgent action to help a “lost generation”.

Peter Hyman, a former adviser to Tony Blair and Keir Starmer, told the Guardian...

Uganda: Nche Calls for Competency-Based Health Training

20 May at 20:21 PM, via AllAfrica

[Nile Post] The Executive Director of the National Council for Higher Education, Prof Mary Okwakol, has called for major reforms in nursing and midwifery training, saying Uganda’s health education system must shift from exam-oriented learning to competency-based training that produces work-ready graduates.

British Council staff in Italy to strike over proposed 80% workforce cut

20 May at 18:55 PM, via The Guardian

Soft power institution faces funding crisis linked to Covid-era government loan due to be repaid by September

Staff at the British Council in Italy will go on strike over deep cuts that would slash about 80% of its workforce due to a funding crisis facing the organisation.

Out of 130 of its teaching staff across Rome, Milan and Naples, 108 are being targeted as teaching activities in Italy face...

Harvard College will limit the number of students who can receive A grades

20 May at 18:23 PM, via The Guardian

Mandatory cap on top grades at one of America’s most prestigious colleges will go into effect in fall of 2027

Harvard faculty has voted to impose a roughly 20% cap on A grades in an effort to curb decades of grade inflation that, the faculty argues, degrades the value of top-tier academic achievement at the college.

The mandatory cap on top grades at one of America’s most prestigious colleges...

‘Attainment at all costs’ approach could undermine Send changes, school leaders in England say

20 May at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Union says emphasis on academic goals conflicts with proposed measures on special educational needs provision

Changes to special educational needs provision in England could be thwarted by “academic attainment at all costs” policies that prioritise exam results and punish inclusive schools, headteachers have said in response to a government consultation.

The Association of School and College...

Today, In Short

19 May at 16:51 PM, via New York Times

Poison ivy. The best ketchups. And Alex Cooper is pregnant.

Children’s reading should prioritise pleasure over learning, says laureate

19 May at 16:23 PM, via The Guardian

Frank Cottrell-Boyce tells MPs to focus on early-years reading, with more support for parents and nursery workers

The children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce has urged the government to prioritise pleasure over learning in children’s reading.

Giving evidence to MPs on the education committee, which is investigating the crisis in reading for pleasure among children, the screenwriter and...

There is no state more impotent than being a parent of a teenager doing A-levels | Zoe Williams

19 May at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

Holding a flashcard for chemistry or further maths fills me with a unique kind of horror. Does anyone really understand this?

There’s a chart doing the rounds on social media, ranking philosophers by how punk they are. Hobbes and Heidegger, it says, are “basically a cop”; while for Dionysus the Renegade, Marx and Parmenide, it declares: “They’re not punk, punk is them.” I have no...

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