Earlier this month, mathematics was on the agenda, with the government worried that most people find maths boring, embarrassing, or just plain silly.
Schools are underperforming; specialist maths teachers are to be trained and sent in to help primary schools; adults can’t do simple algebra, and so on..
This week, the focus turns to food, and the [...]
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Educate your way to 5 a day
Posted in diet, education, fruit, health, vegetables on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The GCSE Knockout Cup – Full Draw
Posted in education, league tables, schools on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since inventing this ludicrous idea for a tournament several months ago, it’s become clear to the Nanny Coach that people are actually genuinely interested in this mythical event – or to put it another way, this site gets googled more by a miscellany of school names than any other search criteria, excepting for “Myleene Klass” [...]
An end to school league tables
Posted in education, league tables, schools on December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
School league tables were introduced several years ago by the government in order that the Department for Education and Schools (DfES) had a reason to exist – and could produce league tables demonstrating which UK schools were the best, so that parents could decide amongst themselves which are the best schools, and all send their [...]
