7 in 10 young people think the most difficult part of lockdown is having less contact with friends, reveals new research by the University of Cologne. The study, conducted by Professor Clemens Kroneberg and his research team, found that school pupils suffer from limited face-to-face contact with their friends. The researchers surveyed just under 600 […]
Paul Miller, Head of Global Implementation, Whizz Education In October 2019, the World Bank and UNESCO Institute for Statistics proposed a new metric, Learning Poverty, designed to spotlight low levels of learning and track progress toward ensuring that all children acquire foundational skills. Its technical conceptions of learning poverty have so far been centred on […]
Barking and Dagenham has seen the biggest increase in school bullying exclusions during lockdown – a 200% year-on-year rise 10 local authorities saw bullying rates more than double between 2018/19 and 2019/20 Across England, the average number of exclusions for bullying has dropped by 31% England’s worst areas for school bullying during lockdown have been revealed in new research that has explored the number […]
Edtech platform provides learning continuity to musical programme of excellence Founded in 2013, the Music in Secondary Schools Trust (MiSST) provides funding for classical instruments for secondary schools with a disadvantaged or challenging student intake. The Key Stage 3 curriculum, known as the Andrew Lloyd Webber programme, gives schools the resources needed to […]
Innovate UK funded edtech startup makes its social-emotional life skills online learning platform available to as many secondary students, teachers, schools and colleges as possible, to help address gaps in wellbeing and employability resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Image: Persona Education’s web app Persona Life Skills Persona Education, the UK based edtech start-up […]
The Skills Network is supporting schools and colleges following Ofsted’s updated FE and Skills Handbook Online learning provider, The Skills Network, has developed and launched a new Sexual Consent course this month (July) aimed at further education students and staff, following the new Ofsted inspection changes in the updated FE and Skills Handbook. The course, […]
Young people worried about loneliness this summer, finds mental health charity, Mind The start of the summer holiday could feel like another lockdown for many young people with mental health problems, says leading mental health charity, Mind. As schools break up for the summer holidays, there are increasing concerns over loneliness in young people, […]
176 state-of-the-art ZEISS microscopes are partnered with the award winning Labscope teaching software The University of Birmingham cemented its position as a pioneer of cutting-edge education in 2018 with the creation of the largest digital microscope classroom in Europe. The ZEISS Digital Classroom suite is part of the university’s Collaborative Teaching Laboratory (CTL) and […]
Alamy, PA Media Group’s stock image business has partnered with Pond5 to provide over 6 million premium videos for education and creative customers around the world. In 2016, the Universal Journal of Educational Research found that using videos or multimedia materials in education increases learning [1]. Five years later, the technology used to create […]
