Bournemouth University will expect fewer European students on campus after this academic year following the closure of the Erasmus exchange program for the UK. While it is still unclear what this ending entails, the European influence will surely be missed.
The UK left the European Union at the beginning of 2020,...
For a long while I have questioned the nature of knowledge. As it is referred to in academic circles the study of knowledge is called 'epistemology' and serves to cover the breadth of human understanding at any given point. Thus in 1222 human understanding differed radically from human understanding...
Here's the Draft National Curriculum for English Key Stages 1 and 2:Key Stage 1 & 2 National CurriculumFirst observation: the document is anonymous - just as the National Literacy Strategy was! This is outrageous. What an example of non-democracy at work! Those of us who teach in universities, spend...
When asked in the Commons about how young people would suffer at the hands of the Tory Brexit he replied...
https://twitter.com/JerryHicksUnite/status/1343225607262507009?s=20
Therefore 'speaking out of the bottom' in Boris Johnson parlance means 'how the hell did you know what we were planning?'. Yet more LIES and fakery from the Prime Minister....
People with developmental prosopagnosia, who experience lifelong difficulties recognising the faces of people who should be familiar to them, can still successfully identify some faces ‘spontaneously’ if they have sufficient and recent exposure to them, a new study has found.
Researchers from Bournemouth University also attempted to separate successful face...
Boris Johnson is facing calls to close every school in England after an embarrassing government U-turn which means all primary schools in London will remain shut next week.
A union leader claimed what was right for London was right for the rest of the country and called on ministers to...
Dear Mr Gove,I am writing to inform you of the death of Mr Gareth Utting, a teacher of English at a secondary school in Shropshire. Gareth died at the age of 37 of a massive heart attack. There were a few contributory factors to his death, but looming large was...
It can be tricky to decide whether or not to keep your child off school, nursery or playgroup when they're unwell.
There are government guidelines for schools and nurseries about managing specific infectious diseases at GOV.UK. These say when children should be kept off school and when they shouldn't.
If you do keep...
The government and the exams regulator are being threatened with legal action as pressure mounts for a rethink over the awarding of A-level grades.
Around 280,000 students saw their A-level grades fall by one grade or more from their predicted results following the introduction of a new "moderation" algorithm, which was put...
Purpose The government believes that the pupil premium, which is additional to main school funding, is the best way to address the current underlying inequalities between children eligible for free school meals (FSM) and their peers by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it...
