News
Welcome to the Young Readers Programme news section. Here you can find all the latest news on the project. You can also seach news items using the box above.
Schools & teaching news stories:
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09Apr2010SATs tests limit children’s education, says teachers' leader
Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, has said national tests for 10 and 11-year-olds, formerly known as SATs, contravene the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Posted by Anna Jones
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07Apr2010Key education reforms lost as Bill pushed through Parliament
The Government has been forced into droping a number of planned reforms to schools in order to secure the passage through Parliament of the Children, Schools and Families Bill.
Posted by George Dugdale
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30Mar2010Reading unpopular pastime for young people, new research reveals
New National Literacy Trust findings from a major study of 17,089 pupils from 112 schools reveal that only half (50.6%) of young people enjoy reading very much or quite a lot.
Posted by Anna Lindsay
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26Mar2010Youth Panel to select Orange Prize for Fiction
To celebrate the fifteenth year of the Orange Prize for Fiction, a youth panel are to choose the “best of the best” of the prizewinning books from the past 14 years.
Posted by Anna Lindsay
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24Mar2010
FILMCLUB project has positive impact on literacyResearch by FILMCLUB, a DCSF (Department for Children, Schools and Families) initiative that supports schools to run free film clubs, shows that there are educational and social benefits to watching, discussing and reviewing a broad range of films.
Posted by Anna Lindsay
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05Feb2010Pupils use home computers for schoolwork
A Microsoft study has found that 37% of secondary pupils use computers for study every day at home. This is more intensive usage than at school with only 30% of pupils using computers every day.
Posted by Anna Lindsay
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28Jan2010Tories propose adding new module to childcare training
A Green Paper from the Centre for Social Justice, and independent think-tank set up by former Conservative party leader Iain Duncan-Smith has recommended that a new module be added to childcare courses to teach practitioners how to identify developmental
Posted by Charlotte Foster
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20Jan2010School system 'shameful', says CBI boss
The education system is failing pupils from poorer homes and producing exam results which "we ought to be ashamed of", according to the head of the most powerful group representing business leaders.
Posted by Site Administrator
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12Jan2010Cameron plans to bring 'spirit of enterprise' to Sure Start
David Cameron has set out Conservative plans to focus Sure Start more heavily on early intervention, reaching the disadvantaged, and better involving the voluntary sector in a speech to think-tank Demos.
Posted by Anna Lindsay
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01Jan2010'One in six' children have difficulty learning to talk
Nearly one in six children - and almost one quarter of boys - have difficulty learning to talk, research suggests.
Posted by Edward Mather
