21 March 2010
Teachers Building Society has been appointed to manage the Home Loans for Teachers scheme set up by the Old Etonian Housing Association (OEHA). The scheme provides interest-free loans to teachers working in Islington, Camden and Haringey who would otherwise be unable to purchase their own homes. To date, home loans have been made to 11 [...]
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20 March 2010
Here are links to some education related news articles from this week: Nursery food warning – There are concerns over the quality of food in England’s nurseries. Rise in ‘lonely children’ – Childline is receiving increasing numbers of calls from children who feel they are lonely. A-Level marking concerns – A rising number of teachers are worried about [...]
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19 March 2010
apps4class is a new wiki from Jan Webb and Julian Wood, offering a place to group together the various web 2.0 sites and share ways of using them in the classroom. http://apps4class.wikispaces.com/ The wiki is growing on a regular basis and has links to a wide range of online tools, including animation sites, games to use in [...]
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18 March 2010
Searching online is a valuable skill for children to develop. However, there are potential dangers associated with allowing children to search the Internet freely. Here are details of three search tools which might be useful for the classroom: 1) Gemsta Homework is a multi-search tool which allows you to search a selection of sites in one step. [...]
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17 March 2010
The Natural History Museum has just launched new learning resources to support school visits to Cocoon, the interactive visitor experience at the heart of the new Darwin Centre. There are pre and post-visit sections introducing students to an activity which they gather information for as they go round the Cocoon experience. They can be [...]
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16 March 2010
The BBC has launched a new website called Exploring the Solar System which is very useful for primary and secondary schools as part of their work in Science. www.bbc.co.uk/solarsystem Exploring the Solar System covers all subjects – the moon, Earth, the Sun, astronauts – and contains images, facts, clips, videos and animations. It is a fascinating resource [...]
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15 March 2010
Functional Skills are new qualifications that will be rolled out throughout the UK education system, including forming part of the new GCSEs from autumn 2010. This article outlines things that teachers need to know about them, with an interview with a teacher who was involved in the pilot. Things everyone needs to know about Functional Skills [...]
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14 March 2010
British teens are gearing up for a world first: an epic live and interactive chat show featuring leaders from the worlds of music, movies, sport, business and the community in general. The Youth of Today Show is being created by teenagers for teenagers and will be broadcast online on Thursday 18 March from 4-7pm. The show, hosted [...]
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13 March 2010
Here are a selection of links to education-related news articles from this week: Scrapping the 50% university student target – A report outlines why the government target of getting 50% of people under 30 into higher education should be scrapped. £10m lottery money to get students playing more sport – Universities are to be given lottery money [...]
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12 March 2010
Here are links to some of the most popular Teaching News articles over the past few months, in case you have missed any of them: Communication 4 All – Have you visited this wonderful resource site? Safer Internet Day – Lots of links and advice for teaching your pupils about staying safe online. Anithings Offer – A special [...]
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