by kyle | Nov 29, 2022 | DERBY, education news, IPGCE, IQTS, teacher training
The results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, offer the most definitive indictment of the pandemic’s impact on millions of schoolchildren. In math, the results were especially devastating, representing the steepest declines ever recorded on...
by kyle | Nov 29, 2022 | DERBY, education news, IPGCE, IQTS, teacher training
According to Sandarenu Amarasiri, a teacher at the state school in Colombo, Sri Lanka, children have been arriving at school quietly starving. This is because many families can barely afford a meal a day. The economic crisis has also meant that many parents can’t...
by kyle | Nov 29, 2022 | DERBY, education news, IPGCE, IQTS, teacher training
A new poll has found that schools are facing severe funding shortages that could force them to cut teacher numbers and expand class sizes. The survey of school leaders by the Association for School and College Leaders (ASCL) found that 98% of respondents were facing...
by kyle | Nov 29, 2022 | DERBY, education news, IPGCE, IQTS, teacher training
When Andrew Brennen thinks about the US supreme court deliberations over race-conscious admissions, he reflects on his parents, attorneys, and brother. In 2009, his father, David, became the first Black dean of the University of Kentucky’s law school since the state...
by kyle | Nov 25, 2022 | DERBY, education news, IPGCE, IQTS, teacher training
With the outbreak of COVID-19 came a new world of online education. For some students, this opened up opportunities to learn in different ways than they were used to. However, for others, it meant being left behind due to a lack of resources. Read the rest of the...
by kyle | Nov 25, 2022 | DERBY, education news, IPGCE, IQTS, teacher training
Extra tuition designed to help children in England catch up on learning lost during the Covid pandemic was often “haphazard and poorly planned” and in some cases, disrupted the school day, an independent review by Ofsted inspectors has found. Read the rest of the...
