A group of children will be leading a scientific mission to Central America in spring 2013, a journey which will combine a television show with delivering medical aid to Nicaragua. Three kids will be taking part in Exploration Nation, an educational and fun television programme which shows “real kids doing real science research”. The children […]

The Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (Acme) has announced that England is “significantly underachieving” when it comes to producing highly skilled mathematicians, with much of the cause of this being put down to rushing able students through the curriculum. Unlike the attentive and personal teaching that comes from hiring an online maths tutor, a number […]

One lucky schoolboy from Lincolnshire has had a life changing experience after spending three weeks working in some of the world’s poorest countries for a television programme. Mattie Barnett will soon be appearing in the CBBC programme Show Me What You’re Made Of after being specially selected for the show. Five hard-working youngsters from across […]

The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, has outlined details of four new projects which will involve former soldiers offering discipline, teamwork and leadership training to alternative provision pupils. With the scheme primarily geared towards children who have previously been excluded from mainstream schools, there are also plans for ex servicemen and women to offer similar services […]

The results of a recent survey have indicated that England may be slipping down the world rankings in terms of science knowledge amongst schoolchildren, although reading rates appear to have improved. The findings were based on tests carried out on hundreds of thousands of children from many different countries in May and June of last […]

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced that he will be taking on the father of a schoolgirl who became famous for her inspirational efforts to open up education in Pakistan to more girls as his education advisor. Brown is the United Nations’ Special Envoy for Global Education, and is currently running his own programme […]

The Welsh education minister, Leighton Andrews, has announced that a review is shortly to begin into the standards and equality present within the nation’s schools. The move follows the disappointing results of the most recent Pisa study from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which ranks the education systems of over 70 countries […]