A top academic responded angrily yesterday to further evidence that history lessons were being squeezed out of schools. Research by the Historical Association shows that rising numbers of pupils are receiving just two years of compulsory history l...
New research has verified what so many people have already known: SpongeBob SquarePants is Public Enemy Number One. The researchers from the Ivy League College of Whatsa Matta U. have found that kids who watch SpongeBob SquarePants end up with...
London - A program allowing parents, special interest groups, charities etc to open their own training grounds for wackjob offspring should not discriminate against 'normal' minorities a Glib Dem report has said. The controversial 'freak school' s...
Paul Stephens from the Australian Education Union has put adamant amounts of research into parental influence on children and from this, states 'It is impossible for a school student to pass the HSC with parental influence and it should be banned.'...
In a move that indicates that mathematics is keeping up with the modern world, the Vague Numbering system is to be taught in maths at high schools across Britain. "Basically," said Juan Tuthre, head of Modern Maths at Oxford's Queen College, "Vagu...
With the start of the new academic year, schools throughout the US state of Florida are beginning to enforce a new law that bans students from wearing revealing attire. The School Teachers and Friends' Union (STFU) have called for such a ban to go na...
Controversial academic Ken Lucid has lambasted government policy on teaching after it emerged that 159 state schools failed to enter any pupils for history GCSE this year. The Department Of Education revealed the figures on the day that pupils acr...
The recent trends of Unschoolers, who basically are self taught on everything from spelling to physics, share a belief that children do not need classrooms and organized education to learn. Rather, they are on their own to do what they want anytime...
The chair of the Nottingham City Council Education Committee, Irma Dunce, has declared her intention of reintroducing 'Spotting' as a hobby and pastime for those children not in borstal. She explained: "I realise that Train Spotting is out of the question nowadays, due to the dangers of electrification, and collisions with the few trains still running. Twish.. twich..twatc... Bird Watching is a...
Here is MY top ten list of things I WILL NOT miss now I have retired from teaching...in reverse order of priority 10. Getting up early and having to get dressed in nice clothes. 9. Driving to work in the winter and spinning my car, sometimes ending up in a snow bank. 8. Having to pack luches and snacks on a daily basis. 7. Writing a Day Book with lesson plans...
A charity for the intellectually challenged called DUH has today released a report showing that less intelligent people are shockingly under-represented at Oxford and Cambridge universities. In 2009, there were a total of 974 sixth-year school pup...
Washington, DC - The Federal Department of Education issued a press release announcing a joint venture with the National Education Association. Dubbed the "Lady Gaga Initiative", officials expressed optimism that their new plan will reverse the distr...
Yesterday I said goodbye to the last class I will teach Yes I've retired but stuck it out - put the bit between my teeth. I started out in England in 1973 Three years of teachers' college there Was more than enough for me. My teaching job I did enjoy Each little girl, each little boy Some keen to learn,some keen to play. I enjoyed each and every day. And then I moved to Canada Wher...
The National Union of Schoolchildren (NUS) has called a country-wide strike, causing thousands of schools across the UK to close. A lack of chaos is predicted as children and teachers stay at home. The NUS has promised to continue the strike until...
Leading education experts have today pointed out that proposed incentives to attract teachers are poorly thought through and will not work in the real world. Unions, school governors and parent bodies have pointed out that there is no recognition...
A press release, made on behalf of Britain's more recent Universities, announced that while the actual degrees from these establishments will not be of any use until the day we run out of Andrex, they are leading the field in providing plausible, if...
Wasilla, Alaska - Tired of being branded as a political lightweight, Republican presidential contender Sarah Palin today revealed some heavy ideas for dealing with America's ongoing economic crisis. "The way I see it," Palin said, "America is bein...
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