Education ministry gives go-ahead to two-thirds of Christian faith schools | Education | The Guardian
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/jun/28/christian-faith-schools-islamic-hindu
But only one in five Islamic and Hindu schools approved, say DfE figures released after long battle to keep data secret
What happened when I started a feminist society at school
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/mortarboard/2013/jun/20/why-i-started-a-feminist-society
We wanted to challenge sexist behaviour – but we unleashed a flood of abuse from our male peers
1,000 pupils and rising – primary schools go supersize | Education | The Guardian
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/may/17/primary-schools-supersize
The number of supersize primary schools – some of which have more than 1,000 pupils – has soared by 60% in three years, triggering a fierce debate among educationists about whether tens of thousands of young children are getting the attention they need.
Department for Education statistics show that the number of schools with 700 or more pupils amounts to 130 today compared with 80 three years ago. Barclay primary school in Leyton, east London, already one of the largest with 1,200 pupils, is expanding to 1,600 from September 2014.
Rythmes scolaires : comment ça marche au Royaume-Uni ?
▻http://kiltissime.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/rythmes-scolaires
Quant à la journée d’école, elle est du ressort des établissements. Généralement, elle commence à 9 heures et se termine à 15 heures 30, pour un total hebdomadaire de 25 heures de cours dans le primaire (souvent moins pour les tout petits – pour info, l’école est obligatoire dès l’âge de 5 ans), et de 27 heures dans le secondaire, étalées sur cinq, voire six jours. Depuis septembre 2011, les chefs d’établissement peuvent modifier la structure des journées et semaines d’écoles comme bon leur semble, sans même consulter les parents d’élèves et les professeurs […].
Cela étant posé, que deviennent les élèves dont les parents travaillent, quand les cours finissent en milieu d’après-midi ? C’est précisément là que le bât blesse.
Les parents ont de nombreuses solutions devant eux : babysitter, au pair pour ceux qui en ont les moyens, sinon out of school clubs qui sont un peu plus abordables. Les breakfast clubs, par exemple, offrent petit-déjeuner et activités ludiques pour préparer les enfants à leur journée d’école. Les after school clubs, comme leur nom l’indique, récupèrent les enfants après les cours, leur donnent une collation, les aident pour les devoirs et leurs proposent des jeux.
Toutes les écoles sont sensées proposer des solutions de garde d’enfants, ou au moins être partenaires de structures qui le font. Cependant, les out of school clubs sont en très grandes difficultés : premièrement parce qu’ils sont saturés, et deuxièmement car elles peinent à se financer. Austérité oblige, de plus en plus de collectivités locales coupent dans leur budget dédié à l’enfance, et pour les chanceux, le relais du financement est pris par une association caritative ou la fondation d’une grosse boîte de céréales […].
Why school breakfast clubs are on the education frontline (The Gardian)
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/sep/16/breakfast-clubs-schools-funding
Free breakfast clubs are a lifeline for busy parents and families whose budgets have been cut to the bone. But as demand accelerates, funding is being cut
Je sais, c’est encore les vacances ; mais ce n’est pas une raison pour ne pas y prêter attention... A-level foreign languages decline alarms examiners
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/aug/16/alevel-foreign-languages-decline
Le Guardian popursuit ses expérimentations de cartographie participative, collective (crowd sourcing) et c’est très bien.
GCSE results 2012 - interactive map | Education | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/gcses/2012/gcse-results-2012-interactive-map
We’re collecting and mapping 2012’s GCSE results from schools and colleges across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Submit accounts of your success stories and generate a results page for your school or college.
#cartographie #cartographie-participative #cartographie-radicale #crowd-sourcing #Guardian #Royaume-Uni
Creationist groups win Michael Gove’s approval to open free schools
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jul/17/creationist-groups-approval-free-schools?mobile-redirect=false
The education secretary, Michael Gove, has approved three free schools run by groups with creationist views, including one with a document on its website declaring that it teaches “creation as a scientific theory”.
Grindon Hall Christian school in Sunderland, a private school due to reopen in September with state funding, says on its website that it will present creationism as science and affirm the position that Christians believe God’s creation of the world is “not just a theory but a fact”.
Ministers have also approved a free school in Sevenoaks, Kent, that says on its website it will teach in RE classes that “God made the world”, while a third free school, in Nottinghamshire, is a fresh proposal from a group initially turned down over creationism.
Top universities join free online teaching platform | Education | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jul/17/top-universities-free-online-classes
Twelve leading universities in the US and Europe have joined an internet platform created by two Stanford University scientists which provides free online access to classes designed by academics at elite institutions.
The move, announced on Tuesday, marks a significant expansion of online university teaching. Observers say it heralds a shakeup of the classic lecture theatre model.
Heist of the century: Wall Street’s role in the financial crisis
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/may/20/wall-street-role-financial-crisis
Wall Street bankers could have averted the global financial crisis, so why didn’t they? In this exclusive extract from his book Inside Job, Charles Ferguson argues that they should be prosecuted
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►http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/may/21/heist-century-university-corruption
These days, if you see a famous economics professor testify in Congress, or write an article, there is a good chance he or she is being paid by someone with a big stake in what’s being debated. Most of the time, these professors do not disclose these conflicts of interest, and most of the time their universities look the other way.
Gandalf en campagne contre l’#homophobie // McKellen takes gay tour to schools | Education | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/apr/12/ian-mckellen-gay-tour-schools
“Do you know any gay people?” asks Sir Ian McKellen asks. Silence. Heads shake. “Well, you do now. I’m gay.” It’s my turn to speak up. “You know two now. I used to go to this school – and I’m gay,” I offer. “You know three now,” a sixth-former chips in. The other pupils don’t look too surprised, and he seems admirably comfortable in his sexuality. Silence. Then: “Erm. Well. You know four now.” Heads shoot around to see a uniformed boy, leaning close to McKellen. Mouths fall slightly open – including mine – but nobody speaks. Then McKellen says, in that mellifluous voice of his, “Well. How about that? It turns out we all know quite a few more gay people than we thought we did.”
Why aren’t there more black football managers? | Education | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/mar/28/black-football-managers-institutional-racism
The research, by Ellis Cashmore, professor of culture, media and sport at Staffordshire, and his colleague Dr Jamie Cleland, senior lecturer in sociology, involved 1,000 #football fans, professional players, referees, coaches and managers revealing their views on the dearth of black managers. More than 56% of those polled said there is racism at the top of football’s hierarchy; among BME respondents, that figure was 73%. Most radically of all, over half of BME fans called for a policy similar to the Rooney rule in the US, which stipulates that all shortlists for management and coaching jobs in the National Football League must include at least one minority candidate. The Staffordshire academics report that a third of the polled football fans encouraged this type of reform.
Britain’s first Hindu free school puts meditation on the timetable | Education | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jan/07/first-hindu-free-school-unveils-plans
Pradip Gajjar, project director for the school, said: “If you look at things happening around #meditation, the growth of yoga – a school that’s not just adding this but embedding these things is very appealing to people of other faiths and none.”