Schools
The Nativity is given a 21st-century makeover
The story of Mary, Joseph and Jesus can be told in different ways. Andy Sharman visits an alternative Christmas show and finds a school that's doing its bit for the community
Inside Schools
Gervase Phinn: I got a cracking string of O-levels
Thursday, 11 December 2008
An education in the life of the author, public speaker and former school inspector
Nikki Schreiber: This desperate scrabble for places will continue
Thursday, 11 December 2008
Comment
Education Quandary: 'My daughter cannot take GCSE triple science, despite the Government saying that it is her entitlement. What can I do?'
Thursday, 11 December 2008
Hilary's advice
Anna Fazackerley: It's time to get tough on choosing soft subjects
Thursday, 4 December 2008
I can hear them now. Parents all over the country are boasting about the A-Levels their clever offspring are studying. "Oh yes, Matthew is working ever so hard," they say merrily. "He's taking law, history and business. I don't know where he inherited his brains from!"
Lessons without walls: Inside the school of the future
Thursday, 4 December 2008
Kent needed to stimulate pupils to do better in underperforming schools – so it created a radically new learning environment. Veronica Simpson visits the prototype
Log on to the virtual world of tomorrow at Olympia
Thursday, 4 December 2008
The latest educational gadgets will be on display in the new year
Education Quandary: 'A lot of parents in my area are putting their children in for Kumon maths. Should mine do it, too?'
Thursday, 4 December 2008
Leading Article: Single-sex return
Thursday, 27 November 2008
Are girls better off in single-sex or co-educational schools? The answer to this old question seems to be swinging again in favour of girls-only schools. Vicky Tuck, the president of the Girls' School Association, is predicting a return to single-sex schooling on the grounds that girls learn differently from boys. Now Sarah McCarthy-Fry, the new Schools minister, wants more mixed schools to experiment with girls'-only science classes. It is doubtful, however, whether much change will take place until both boys and girls are seen to benefit from single-sex schooling.
Education Quandary: 'Now my children are older I'd like to get a qualification, but I didn't do well at school. What are access courses?'
Thursday, 27 November 2008
Net gains: How table tennis improves pupils; health and behaviour
Thursday, 27 November 2008
Children's work, behaviour and even health can be improved by getting them involved in playing table tennis. Could the transformation seen in Glaswegian schools be replicated elsewhere?
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