There are a few education stories that make up the staple diet of education reporting in newspapers. There is the good-old A-level results day splash (generally featuring 18 year old lovelies, jumping up and down with bits of paper). The piece that berates how ludicrously easy exams are these days (again, accompanied by 18...
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Do you remember Tom Daley? The little chap who was very good at falling with style from a very high platform into a deep pool of water at the Olympics? Apparently, as soon as he returned to his state secondary school he had the crap bullied out of him. Thus, after someone threatened (quite...
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A teacher who filmed her pupils in a secret documentary about the standards in state schools was yesterday suspended for a year by a General Teaching Panel.
The documentary itself (viewable here) was an expose of mismanagement and bad behaviour in failing (and 'successful') schools. For six months Alex Dolan filmed herself teaching and talking...
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There's a big hoo-hah over the new A* grade at A-level - and it's all over nothing. The new grade is meant to distinguish between very clever teenagers and fantastically clever teenagers. Basically, if you get over 90% in your A2 year, you get an A* and a big sticker saying NERD.
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