The 2015 Birthday Honours list, published on Friday 12 June 2015, recognises 108 people for their service to education and children’s services including teachers, school governors, foster carers and many others.
Plans will be put in place to encourage pupils to study more academic GCSE qualifications by using performance tables that will monitor schools who fail to enrol pupils in English baccalaureate subjects.
The exam board AQA has been forced to rewrite a number of A-level and GCSE exam papers after a Parcelforce van containing the papers was stolen earlier this month.
Proposals have been drawn up by associations to create a new organisation called the Foundation for Leadership in Education, which would seek to develop new leadership qualifications and set standards.
Research conducted by University College London’s (UCL) Institute of Education suggests that teachers can have an unconscious bias to children from disadvantaged backgrounds and perceive them to be less able than their more advantaged peers.
The Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty and Wellington College Teaching Schools Alliance, investigated the characteristics and performance of 4,000 UK teenagers and found that students with “grit” are likely to achieve academic success.
Thousands of students were frustrated by their GCSE maths exam which featured a tricky questions about the probability of ‘Hannah” pulling two orange sweets from a bag. The equation was deemed too difficult by pupils and they took to twitter to express their anger and mock the examination body.
