Figures that will not help Prime Minister Brown's re-election prospects show that more English primary schools are failing to get children to the expected levels in the core subjects of Maths, English and Science....
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The abacus is an ancient calculating machine that uses beads on a frame which are moved manually. In Asia the abacus is still used in many situations and children still learn how to use it. With the state of...
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An interesting new study shows that English children are the best at math in Europe, yet they are enjoying the subject less and less. In global rankings, England is beaten in math only by far Eastern...
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THANKS to a government injection of a £350m grant, more students are studying science and mathematics, reversing a recent worrying slump, with a shortage of teachers in the subjects, and scarce highly...
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The bad news keeps rolling in from the SATs results in the UK. The test, which is administered to children around the ages of 10 to 15, was beleaguered with delays in grading this year."Sats results published today revealed 27 per cent of 14-year-olds failed to reach the...
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Well, if monkeys can fish and pick coffee, then it makes sense that they can count, too. Indeed, if they start demanding payment for their work, they can bust us if we short-change them. It's an interesting...
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Ed Balls, the UK Schools Secretary, has threatened to close down 67 schools if they don't improve their testing results."Dozens of London schools - including many city academies - are being ordered to raise their standards or face losing their independence. Ministers are...
Science superhero Stephen Hawking met up with Nelson Mandela (no introduction required) to discuss a new education initiaive called The Next Einstein.Though it sounds like a reality show, The Next Eistein will...
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"More than one in four UK A-level entries were awarded the top A grade this year, results show.
Figures from the exam boards showed 25.3% of entries were graded A, up from 24.1% last year.
The improvement in A grades in independent and grammar schools over the past five years...
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"Mapping the StarMaze A tale of mathematical obsession: "Before I can explain my decades-long quest to map the starmaze I must acquaint you with a small puzzle...I have a habit of seeing everything (cities, organizations, computers, networks, brains) as a maze, so I named...
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