Rising numbers of penalties are being handed out to school staff and students for exam malpractice, official figures show.
Ofqual data also showed a rise in the number of pupils taking mobile phones into tests.
New statistics reveal a 149 per cent hike in penalties issued to teachers and other workers, while the numbers for pupils rose by 25 per cent.
Malpractice covers anything that could “undermine the integrity of an exam”, according to regulator Ofqual.
Source : Independent
Four strategies for remembering everything you learn
Parents and educators are pretty good at imparting the first kind of knowledge,” shares psych writer Annie Murphy Paul. “We’re comfortable talking about concrete information: names, dates, numbers, facts.
But the guidance we offer on the act of learning itself – the ‘meta-cognitive’ aspects of learning – is more hit-or-miss, and it shows.
If you’re going to learn anything, you need two kinds of prior knowledge:
- knowledge about the subject at hand, like math, history, or programming
- knowledge about how learning actually works
Source : Independent
International students bring economic benefits to the UK!
International students are worth £20bn to the UK economy, says a report from the Higher Education Policy Institute.
The analysis says on top of tuition fees, their spending has become a major factor in supporting local economies.
London alone gains £4.6bn – with Sheffield the biggest beneficiary in proportion to its economy.
The think tank’s director, Nick Hillman, says the figures support calls to remove students from immigration targets.
There are about 230,000 students arriving each year for university courses in the UK – most of them postgraduates, with China the most common country of origin.
“Fewer international students would mean a lot fewer jobs in all areas of the UK, because international students spend money in their universities, in their local economies,” he says.
“It is literally the sandwich shops, the bike shops, the taxi firms; it is the night clubs, it’s the bookshops.
“Without international students, some of the local companies might go bust. Some of the local resident population would lose their jobs,” says Mr Hillman.
The Higher Education Policy Institute, which carried out the study with education company Kaplan, argues that the UK should have a more positive approach to students from overseas – and separate them from the wider debate about immigration.
Source : BBCeducation
Edo Government to prosecute parents for denying children access to education
The Edo State Government has said it will arrest and prosecute parents and guardians, who violate the Child Rights Law, especially those who deny their children and wards access to education.
Acting Chairman, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Basic Education, Dr. Joan Oviawe addressing journalists during a tour of schools in Benin City, Edo State.
Acting Chairman of the Edo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and Special Adviser to the Governor on Basic Education, Dr. Joan Osa Oviawe, disclosed this during an inspection tour of schools in Benin metropolis on the first day of the academic session.
Source : Vanguard
In British education, the central issue is class, not ethnicity – Kenan Malik
The white working class. It’s a phrase that has become so commonplace that few recognise the sheer oddness, and indeed odiousness, of the concept. It denotes both pity and contempt.
On the one hand, it is a description of the “left behind”, sections of the population that have lost out through globalisation and deindustrialisation. On the other, it is shorthand for the uneducated and the bigoted, people who support Donald Trump or Brexit, and are hostile to immigration and foreigners.
Source : Guardian
Secret Teacher: subjects like art are being sidelined – but they matter
It’s Monday afternoon and I’m teaching a class of 10- and 11-year-olds French. Last week they wrote a set of descriptive sentences about animals and today they’re going to turn their descriptions into picture books.
“Once you’ve finished with your sentences, you’re going to illustrate them to reflect what you’ve written,” I tell the class.
Silence.
“Any questions?”
A hand pops up.
“Do we have to draw the pictures? Can’t we just write the sentences?”
“You need to draw the pictures as well. You’re making a picture book, remember?”
“But I can’t draw, Miss.”
Source : Theguardian
Educational support for deaf children in England ‘in complete disarray’
A deaf pupil with a specialist teacher. In some areas, there is just one specialist teacher for every 100 students. Photograph: Brian Mitchell / Alamy/Alamy
A report by the Consortium for Research into Deaf Education says the number of teachers of the deaf has been cut by 14% in the past seven years, at the same time as a 31% increase in the number of children requiring support.
In some areas the situation is so critical there is just one specialist teacher for every 100 students. Without intervention, researchers say the crisis is likely to worsen, with many existing staff close to retirement.
Source : Guardian
Bayelsa Education Commissioner Tasks Stakeholders On New Strategy
The Bayelsa Commissioner for Education, Mr Jonathan Obuebite, has urged education team and stakeholders in the state to formulate new policies and strategies to take the sector to greater heights.
The commissioner gave the charge on Monday during a meeting with the principals of model secondary schools in Bayelsa held in his office in Yenagoa.
Obuebite said that one of the resolutions for the year was zero tolerance to any act of indiscipline and nonchalant attitude from the top to the least person.
He said that it would no longer be business as usual as both erring staff and students would be sanctioned appropriately.
Source : Pmnewsnigeria
Edo Govt. okays 300 schools for New skills-based curriculum
Three hundred schools in the basic education sub-sector have been selected for the implementation of the Edo State’s new skills-oriented curriculum that will leverage on Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, who said this in his New Year broadcast, explained that his administration was set to implement the reforms in the educational sector starting with a pilot that includes 300 basic schools.
Source : Vanguard
Government mum on money for free higher education
Cape Town – Where the money will be found for the free higher education, which President Jacob Zuma announced last month, remains a mystery.
Higher Education and Training Minister Hlengiwe Mkhize addressed the media on Thursday morning to provide further detail on Zuma’s “historic announcement for free higher education and training for poor and working-class families”, as she termed it.
Communications Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane chaired the briefing, and Mkhize was flanked by State Security Minister Bongani Bongo, who also serves on the inter-ministerial committee (IMC) on higher education.
Source : News24