GUY CLAXTON is an international expert on learning – he's also a fan of the new curriculum's key competencies. WAYNE ERB reports Ever step back from teaching and consider

December 15th, 2008- PageOne, the UK’s leading mobile messaging company today announces that its JANET txt service and MoodleMobile module, have both been chosen by Leicester’s Gateway Sixth

Resource Development International (RDI - http://www.rdi.co.uk ), the world's largest independent provider of UK university distance learning qualifications, is teaching the Russians a thing or two... literally! RDI

World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others. How to teach when learning is everywhere. Fascinating article by by Will Richardson Edutopia Magazine December 2008. It begins: Earlier this

YoungMinds welcomes the focus on children outlined in yesterdays NHS operating framework, but warns that the NHS must look at both children’s physical and mental health. There can

VISION magazine: Issue 8 The latest issue of Futurelab's bi-annual magazine features articles on informal learning, computer games in education, neuroscience and learning, Positive Activities for Young People, planning

A competency curriculum that develops the PLTS 20 January 2009 Learning to Learn for Personalised Learning A competency based curriculum rather than a subject based curriculum for KS3? QCA recommends a flexible

Free books for schools! The Times and The Sunday Times Books for Schools is back  “I’m always in favour of people who want to give books to children. Hooray! More

Fuji Montessori Kindergarten from Montessori Foundation Online News December 2008.(Montessori Foundation: http://www.montessori.org/) Fuji Montessori Kindergarten in the Tokyo suburb of Tachikawa has recently moved into innovative new architect-designed

In a landmark decision made today, European judges backed the rights of about a million innocent people, including tens of thousands of innocent children, who have had their

PEN Comment: interesting article that could have come from the pen of our own Roland Meighan ! A Teacher Questions Compulsory Schooling Imagine what would happen if our current compulsory

An interesting Item highlighted in Edutopia's December 3rd e-news from the Edutopia blog by Ben Johnson (2/12/2008). This quote will give you a flavour: 'So, now, let's get back

Our latest journal is out now. Distrubuted free to members Contents include: Two feature articles

• Sci – Fi Nightmare Becomes Reality – Paul    Henderson. Paul invites us to look at the

Personalised Education Now welcomes members, both individuals and groups, who support and promote its vision. Its membership includes educators in learning centres, home educating settings, schools, colleges and

Adult skills at the crossroads: what's in store for 2009? 16 December 2008, 2pm - 4pm London, £99 plus VAT Following the Queen's speech and with the recent publication of the

The Skills Paradox: Confronting inequality in adult learning 11 December, Demos Demos is launching a new pamphlet confronting inequality in adult learning.  The Skills Paradox warns that Britain faces a

Schools Need to Develop a Culture of Innovative Teaching Fit for Education in the 21st Century New Futurelab handbook helps teachers to develop innovative practice A new handbook from education

The new handbook, ‘Promoting Transformative Innovation in Schools’, is designed to prompt debate around the nature and purpose of innovation in schools. It aims to offer evidence, insights,

Director of Tide~ £37,161 – £41,602 [pay award pending] Tide~ global learning is a network of teachers and other educators responding to the educational implications of global dimensions, development perspectives and

‘More universities should provide courses that offer hands-on experience to better prepare their students.’ This is the response from the Head of Cranfield Health, Professor Joe Lunec, after

By Tamar Lewin. Tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to 2007, while median family income rose 147 percent.

Ho Ho Ho,The Christmas lights are up on the High Street and the mince pies are selling like hot cakes. School of Everything has got into

Due to the success of this year’s Manchester based event, League Football Education (LFE) has announced that ‘Progression 09 – The Careers Events’ will expand to be held

But YouTube generation need more information on colleges and want to get it through online video. Results of a survey released today by Education Now!, a new TV programme