Researching Education - Widening the Debate
The report brings research on schools, further and higher education into the necessary relationship with the wider educational scenario that the government has sought to promote. It is an interesting review of the field of educational research and one which illuminates the current intensive controversies surrounding the nature and status of... view more... (1999-07-15)
Education Being Compromised By Economic Fallacy
A mistaken belief that more educational spending automatically leads to greater economic success is damaging our children`s education, says Professor Alison Wolf of London University`s Institute of Education. In an attempt to fine-tune education spending to maximise the rate of growth, the government is pouring billions of pounds into... view more... (2002-05-28)
Level of education can predict death in the United States BMJ Volume 324, pp 23-25
Education, income inequality, and mortality: a multiple regression analysis Lack of high school education is a powerful predictor of death in the United States, concludes a study in this week's BMJ. Using census statistics for the years 1989 and 1990 for all US states, Professor Andreas Muller tested whether the relation between income inequality... view more... (2002-01-02)
What's fear got to do with it?
he education world is under more scrutiny than ever before. Reports, political platforms, test result comparisons, and various articles in newspapers and magazines all criticize a field that just a generation or so ago was considered an unabashed American success. Educators, students and parents each experience significant fear as it relates to... view more... (2008-01-24)
Elderly women have better mental ability than men, despite less formal education
Elderly women have a better mental function than men despite their lower level of formal education, conclude Dutch researchers in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. These findings challenge the view that a limited formal education is associated with lower mental ability and suggest that biological differences between men and... view more... (2001-06-14)
New Director, Physics Education for the Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics announced today, 8 July 2002, that Professor Peter Main, 48, will become Director of Physics Education, and take up his post on 1 October 2002. He succeeds Peter Cooper, who is leaving the Institute to take up the post of Executive Secretary at the London Mathematical Society. Professor Main has been Head of Physics and... view more... (2002-07-08)
How Women Can Avoid Migraines During that Time-of-the-Month
The American Council for Headache Education (ACHE) launches its new Patient Education Page (PEP) in the journal, Headache. The page is a public service of ACHE, the patient education affiliate of the American Headache Society (AHS) and includes concise information that is useful for both patients and physicians. January's page covers Menstrual... view more... (2005-01-07)
British Universities To Educate Pro-democracy Burmese
Exiled Burmese political activists are to be educated as "nation builders" in universities in the UK and USA under a scheme just launched at the Institute of Education. Four British education institutions have agreed to guarantee places on courses for suitably qualified Burmese students in a programme to be run with the Institute for... view more... (2002-11-28)
Teenage pregnancies are influenced by family structure BMJ Volume 324, p 51
Without better marriage education and support in the United Kingdom, teenage pregnancy rates are likely to remain high even with increasing availability of contraceptives, suggests a letter in this week's BMJ. Trevor Stammers of St George's Hospital Medical School in London reports that young people aged 14-17 who live in a two parent family are... view more... (2002-01-02)
Teacher-led sex education of limited benefit
Improvements in teacher-delivered sex education have some beneficial effect on the quality of young people’s sexual relationships, but do not reduce sexual risk taking in adolescents, finds a study in this week’s BMJ. view more (2002-06-12)
Challenges for Charles Clarke
Save British Science today urged the new Education Secretary, Charles Clarke, to listen to the Treasury as he prepares the Government`s new Higher Education Strategy document. "Undoubtedly, Mr Clarke will have a number of challenges facing him as he takes up this new role. One of these is that he gives proper weight to preparing for the Higher... view more... (2002-10-24)
Dons in distress
Over half of UK academics report poor psychological health according to a paper presented today, Thursday 13 April, to The British Psychological Society's Annual Conference, held at the Guildhall, Winchester, by Gail Kinman of the University of Luton and Fiona Jones of the University of Hertfordshire. The national survey of 782 academics showed... view more... (2000-04-10)
Learning world-wide and flexibly via Internet
TeleTOP®, the digital `teaching-environment` of the University of Twente (UT), the Netherlands, increases the flexibility and interaction in education via internet. Teaching material is available everywhere via internet and swift interaction with the teacher and fellow students is possible. Time and place in education are less important.... view more... (2002-04-19)
Department of Education must listen to Treasury on university funding
Save British Science today welcomed the publication of the Government`s Cross-Cutting Review of Science, and called on the Department for Education & Skills to use next month`s Higher Education Strategy to implement the elements relating to academic pay. view more (2002-10-24)
Selection of the fittest
A new study shows that schools and many education programmes are failing to provide students with a basic understanding of evolution. It is famously difficult to explain evolutionary principles without resorting to anthropomorphic or figurative language. Evolution 'selects' the fittest individuals; species 'adapt' to change. Both of these phrases... view more... (2002-03-18)
Problems of deaf children
Professor Terezinha Nunes and Dr Ursula Pretzlik of the Institute of Education, London, interviewed parents of deaf children. They found that the birth of a deaf child to hearing parents provokes a crisis in communication. This is discussed in the context of the development of communication at home and at school to re-establish 'normality'. view more (1999-08-23)
University of Kent tops funding and expansion league
The University of Kent is among the country's top five universities in terms of the percentage increase in funds allocated by the government. This means that 10% of all of England's university expansion will take place in Kent and Medway. With more than 600 new places available from this autumn, the University continues its growth in the region.... view more... (2003-03-12)
Education does not protect against age-related memory loss, say USC researchers
Adults over 70 with higher levels of education forgot words at a greater rate than those with less education, according to a new study from the University of Southern California. view more (2007-01-10)
Joint Doctor Of Education Programme Unveiled By Universities
Kingston University, University of Surrey Roehampton and the University of Surrey have announced a new part-time programme aimed at busy education professionals who do not have time to study for a traditional research degree. The Doctor of Education, which is the first collaboration of its kind between the three institutions, is being launched in... view more... (2003-07-02)
Playing GAMES highlights stigma of asthma in schools
Southampton schoolchildren have described the stigma associated with asthma and highlighted the bullying that some asthmatics suffer. view more (1998-09-04)
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