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Party manifesto education policy commitments (February 2015)
A summary of the Party manifesto education policy commitments for the 2015 elections.
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PE and Sport Resourcing in Schools 2011
This document provides an analysis of a questionnaire issued to English maintained primary and secondary schools in September and early October 2011. The report reviews sports and PE resourcing with responses from PE co-ordinators and heads of department for PE and sports (and similar titles) across a wide spectrum of establishments in England.
Read MorePE and Sport Resourcing in Schools 2011 – Members Briefing Summary
Research carried out by BESA into the latest trends in sports and PE resourcing in education shows that schools are increasingly moving away from using funding from their general resources budget.
Read MorePersona Education releases free version of its Persona Life Skills social-emotional e-learning platform
Persona Life Skills social-emotional learning integrates with NetSupport’s classroom.cloud
Pilot scheme supports affordability by giving the UK’s 1.7m FE and sixth form students the opportunity to benefit from a free collection of Open Access ebooks and educational resources
PISA 2022
The Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a sort of club for developed countries, released their latest results from its Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) research programme. PISA ranks countries by primarily ranking countries based on the academic performance of 15-year-olds in the following core areas: Reading Literacy: A students’ capacity to … Continued
Read MorePolicy Update 01.05.20
The kids are alright: the case for re-opening schools How to reopen schools has been said to be one of the biggest, and trickiest, decisions facing governments as they contemplate lifting lockdowns. If two studies of 13,000 primary-aged children in Sichuan, China, released this week have reinforced the view that children are 2,000 times less … Continued
Read MorePolicy Update 07.05.20
Schools to re-open but capped at 20% of normal capacity School attendances will have to capped at 20% of normal pupil levels, Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister charged with working out plans to re-open schools told a meeting of Cobra on Wednesday. Current attendance rates in schools sit at 1.9%, with just 177,000 pupils … Continued
Read MorePolicy Update 11.09.20
At the initiative of the former Secretary of State for Education, Damian Hinds, MPs and Peers held the first inaugural of a new All-Party Parliamentary Grouping for Education Technology (‘EdTech’). The cross-party grouping, whose membership includes among others Chris Skidmore MP, Lord David Willetts, Lord Jim Knight, Baroness Estelle Morris, Christian Wakeford MP and Conor Burns MP, will hear evidence and publish findings on four workstreams over the coming year.
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