Some headlines from around the world of education and schools work:
- Save apprenticeships, pleads Clegg: The millions spent on the government’s flagship Train to Gain programme should be urgently redirected to save apprenticeships in the recession, the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said
- Exam paper error causes GCSE physics upset: Tens of thousands of students given faulty papers by exam board
- How best to walk your baby: Most parents would think a daily walk through their neighbourhood, pushing their child along in a buggy would be a healthy thing to do. But, surprisingly, research has found that such a seemingly innocent activity might be doing more harm than good, and wrecking the child’s future
- Nobel prize winners call for education in war zones: Thirty-one Nobel peace prize winners have called for urgent action to provide good education and build peace in war zones.
- Authors fight to preserve school library: Philip Pullman tells head her comprehensive will be a ‘byword for ignorance’ if closure goes ahead
- Brain exercises are ‘waste of time’ says Scottish professor: Neuroscientist Sergio Della Salla claims measures shown on television to halt dementia are myths
- How can students who’ve visited Auschwitz convey what they have seen and felt to friends back home?
- White parents ‘show less interest in education’: White parents are less likely to take an interest in their children’s education than black or Asian parents. And they are also more likely to believe that their children’s schooling should be left up to their teachers, according to a study for the Department for Children, Schools and Families
- Pupils pick ‘wrong’ A-levels: Bright pupils may be unwittingly ruining their chances of obtaining a place in one of Britain’s top universities by choosing the wrong A-level courses
- Left-handed children ‘do badly at school’: Children who are left-handed or ambidextrous perform worse at school than right-handers, according to a study of national curriculum test results
- Thinktank asks Lib Dems to drop opposition to tuition fees: The Liberal Democrats should drop their “regressive and ineffective” opposition to tuition fees because the policy has no bearing on whether poor students go to university, a thinktank has suggested
- Queen’s speech bills: education
