News
International Education News Round-up
(December 1-6, 2009)
Don't knock blogging – it's the answer to our literacy problems
(The Independent 12/03/2009)
British teachers turn to online journals to inspire schoolchildren to write and read.
Schools face struggle to find new teachers
(The Age 12/01/2009 Farrah Tomazin)
Schools in Victoria, Australia struggle to find enough new teachers because of record numbers of staff taking sick leave and a drop in university teaching graduates.
UK plummets in education table for teenagers
(The Guardian 12/01/2009)
Young people in the UK are among the least educated in the developed world, tumbling down the tables since the mid-1990s, according to a new study.
How the economy is failing students
(Las Vegas Sun 12/02/2009 Steve Marcus)
Study shows that parents’ financial hardships reflect on students’ report cards.
'One in four people' in education
(BBC News 12/01/2009 Sean Coughlan)
More than one in four of the entire population of England is now in education or training, according to figures.
School violence set record last year
(Kyodo News 12/01/2009)
A record 59,618 acts of violent behavior by children were logged by elementary, junior high and high schools in Japan last year, marking the third consecutive annual rise, the Japanese education ministry said.
(Published 07 December 2009, Smart Communications Inc.)
