Students across the UK have returned to school and university after the summer break, but there’s been no shortage of education news in the meantime… Exam Results – BBC, Guardian, Independent Half a million students received their GCSE results in August, including harder exams and the first wave of results in the (apparently confusing) new 9-1 format for … Read More
Education News Weekly – 3rd April, 2017
Sats to be scrapped, Ofsted to snoop on parents, and the highest university tuition fees in the world. Ofsted consider Facebook and Twitter snooping – Independent Ofsted have said they will consider snooping on the social media accounts of students and parents to find out trends about certain schools. Ofsted’s “innovations and regulations plan” details how it could … Read More
Education News Weekly – 19th March, 2017
Grammar schools opposition, a deepening funding crisis and the primary school head who’s a champion weightlifter Opposition mounting against Theresa May’s grammar schools plan – BBC Theresa May is facing vocal cross-party opposition from MPs to her flagship education policy, the opening of new selective grammar schools. Former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, former Tory education secretary Nicky … Read More
Education News Weekly – 9th December, 2016
International education rankings, dodgy A Level predictions and the schools that’s grading parents School grades parents on support of their children’s education – Telegraph A Nottinghamshire school has been praised by Ofsted for its innovative scheme of grading parents on their support of their child’s education. Since 2011, Parents at Greasley Beauvale Primary School have been graded A to … Read More
Education News Roundup 20/10/16
Britain trailing in OECD education rankings, AQA scraps more subjects and a funding crisis in West Sussex schools Along with History of Art, this week has also seen AQA – one of the main A-level exam boards – scrap both Archaeology and Classical Civilisation, suggesting their main reason for doing so concerns standardising marking across various papers. This … Read More
Education News Roundup 13/11/16
Oxford’s infamous interview questions, the cost of raising children in the UK and the end of the History of Art A-level An OECD report has revealed that, of the countries surveyed, the UK is the most expensive place to bring up a child. The Society At A Glance report details that 33.8% of the the average UK net family … Read More
Education News Roundup – 22/09/16
University rankings, mental health, a teaching crisis and why we should be more like Finland. This week’s biggest piece of education news, for the first time since it began in 2004, the Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings has been topped by a British university, with Oxford taking top spot. The UK is second only to America, with 88 (up from … Read More
Education News Roundup – 08/09
For the new academic year, Minerva will be publishing a regular weekly blog collating all the most important Education news in brief, so you can easily keep up to date with what’s been happening. Thursday 8th September, 2016 The biggest Education news this week has been that Theresa May’s government has confirmed it plans to open new grammar schools. The proposition … Read More
