02/09/2010 at 15:20:28 - Dame Ellen MacArthur tells how sailing around the world taught her how finite the planet is.

02/09/2010 at 00:15:47 - School lunches can tempt fussy eaters to try new foods, a survey carried out in England for the School Food Trust suggests.

02/09/2010 at 00:15:20 - Yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur has set herself a new challenge - creating an educational foundation to promote sustainability.

01/09/2010 at 00:03:30 - Most people do not meet disabled people either in their social or working lives, suggests a survey.

29/08/2010 at 20:52:23 - Nearly two-thirds of UK parents cannot afford after-school activities for their children, a Save the Children poll suggests.

27/08/2010 at 17:25:11 - England's exams watchdog Ofqual is to compare A-levels and GCSEs with alternative qualifications, including vocational equivalents.

Today at 10:29:34 - Poverty has a far greater influence on the performance of white British pupils at school than any other ethnic group, according to research published today.

Today at 00:00:01 - Jamie Wilson is the last of a dying breed - the only young man left working in a state-run nursery school in the country. Figures published yesterday by the General Teaching Council show the 23-year- ...

02/09/2010 at 00:00:01 - A mixture of teaching union pressure, legal hitches and a lack of interest from schools marred the first day of the Government's blitz to boost the academies programme yesterday.

02/09/2010 at 00:00:01 - Steve Smith sounds wistful as he contemplates his two-year stint leading the body that represents Britain's university vice-chancellors. "I don't expect much will happen," the vice-chancellor of Exet ...

02/09/2010 at 00:00:01 - Britain's most prestigious universities should be allowed to charge higher fees for their courses, the leader of the country's university vice-chancellors says today.

Today at 13:28:50 - Thames Ditton Junior School will open its doors to prospective parents at 7pm on Monday, September 13.

01/09/2010 at 13:28:04 - A Middle Eastern princess is due to visit Chessington Community College next week.

31/08/2010 at 17:19:01 - Two meetings are being held to help parents who are planning to enrol their children at a Wandsworth secondary school in September 2011.

28/08/2010 at 07:00:00 - GCSE grades in Wandsworth are at a record high after an overall increase of six percentage points, the council announced this week.

25/08/2010 at 14:38:14 - Pupils from across Sutton were rewarded for their hard work on Tuesday with another record year for GCSE results.

25/08/2010 at 13:51:18 - Abi Ralph, 16, matched her winning Britain's Got Talent team name Spelbound with a spellbinding set of GCSE results.

Today at 10:20:13 - The editors of the Teachers College announce the yearbook topics for 2010 and issue a call for new proposals.

Today at 10:20:13 - This article examines the American Montessori movement from its failed introduction in the United States in 1911, to its rebirth in 1960, to its current resurgence as a time-tested alternative to trad ...

01/09/2010 at 00:20:26 - In light of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on two racial integration cases from Louisville, Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington, the authors explore the mismatch between the rationale of the Court's ma ...

27/08/2010 at 18:20:13 - This article critiques the content of a popular professional development program for educators developed by Ruby Payne that focuses on children and families living in poverty. We found Payne's claims ...

Today at 08:00:00 - Learn about the science of music at this clever site. Activities include writing, mixing, and experimenting with music, videos that explain tuning, stepping (or rhythmic movement), instrument building ...

02/09/2010 at 20:35:00 - AssistiveWare® today announced the release of Proloquo2Go™ 1.4 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

02/09/2010 at 12:00:00 - Brain mapping and other ultra-specialized technologies are answering long-held questions and dispelling persistent myths about how teenagers learn.

02/09/2010 at 08:00:00 - Take a fascinating look at the Atlantic Sea Turtles (Green, Leatherback, Loggerhead, and Kemp's ridley), all of which are threatened or endangered. Join researchers as they track migration, investigat ...

01/09/2010 at 20:45:00 -  Shmoop today announced the launch of its online PSAT Test Prep service for $19 per student.

Today at 01:00:00 - The vice-chancellor of the University of Wolverhampton is to retire next summer as she feels it is "time to do something else" after 40 years of full-time work.

02/09/2010 at 01:00:00 - Drexel initiative is a palpable hit with students and rival institutions. Sarah Cunnane reports

02/09/2010 at 01:00:00 - A research team has secured ?370,000 (£300,000) from the European Commission for a project on data-search technology.

02/09/2010 at 01:00:00 - Does anyone else find the phrase "reverse discrimination" somewhat offensive and patronising ("A straight case of discrimination? Lawsuits come in all shades for US institutions", 26 August)? Discrimi ...

02/09/2010 at 01:00:00 - Dale Salwak laments the decline of deep reading under the baleful influence of the online age, and rallies to the defence of the love of learning, the sequestered nooks and the sweet serenity of books

Today at 00:09:00 - AutoCAD is coming back to the Mac, and this time it will be free. The archetypal computer aided drafting program from Autodesk, which for more than a decade has been available only on Windows operatin ...

02/09/2010 at 20:55:00 - Working with the district's IT department, a high school in Florida has switched over to electronic textbooks for the 2010-2011 school year in an effort to increase student learning opportunities and ...

02/09/2010 at 20:19:00 - High-stakes assessments don't look to be going away anytime soon, but the form they take may be changing. The United States Department of Education Thursday awarded two grants to "move beyond narrowly ...

02/09/2010 at 16:35:00 - In its never-ending effort to take both academia and modern technology down a peg, Shmoop, publisher of irreverent study aids for several academic subjects, has launched a catalog of 500 self-assessme ...

02/09/2010 at 02:24:00 - Microsoft received a "strong positive" rating in a study of e-mail system vendors by Gartner, which was released in mid-August.

02/09/2010 at 17:20:06 - Temporary spaces help Montgomery County build schools District has five "holding facilities" that serve as swing space during construction

02/09/2010 at 17:20:06 - Ohio State University hopes new hiring policies will boost campus safety Planned changes come after a dismissed university employee killed two of his bosses

01/09/2010 at 19:20:13 - Massachusetts gets its first virtual school Massachusetts Virtual Academy opens this week

01/09/2010 at 19:20:13 - GPS system tracks whether students are riding buses Illinois district uses technology to boost security

01/09/2010 at 19:20:13 - Students run high-end guesthouse near Loyola University Officials say Flats at Loyola Station project is the first of its kind

02/09/2010 at 15:00:00 - THE fall in international student commencements accelerated in July as numbers from India plummeted with the crackdown on student visa fraud.

31/08/2010 at 15:00:00 - ALMOST half of Australia's universities expect to over-enrol this year.

31/08/2010 at 15:00:00 - A MINI-EDUCATION revolution talked up by independent MP Rob Oakeshott could be tried elsewhere in regional Australia.

31/08/2010 at 15:00:00 - LA Trobe University vice-chancellor Paul Johnson has set a target of having 40 per cent of staff participating in a proposed volunteering scheme.

31/08/2010 at 15:00:00 - A QUALITY audit of a gestalt therapy training company has highlighted the need for a national regulator with teeth.

31/08/2010 at 15:00:00 - AUSTRALIA needs an independent classification body to make tough decisions on 'what is what' and 'who is who', education policy expert Simon Marginson has urged.

31/08/2010 at 12:18:58 - Loading the Dice Teachers are facing unprecedented demands as they start this new academic year. Falling state tax revenues have led to education budget cuts that state legislators feel can only be ea ...

09/08/2010 at 23:55:52 - Language Magazine would like to reaffirm its commitment to the promotion of linguistic diversity as well as the preservation and reactivation of endangered languages on this day, August 9, the Interna ...

30/06/2010 at 23:18:25 - Cutting to the Core When lawmakers dictate curricula, the natural reaction from educators is to reject this top down approach which seeks to homogenize the lives of children without possibly taking in ...

20/06/2010 at 22:19:41 - Assistant Editor Kate Sommers-Dawes continues her reports from Spain: Had the most thrilling day today (my first day alone, as the journalist group left this morning). I awoke with no plan except to f ...

19/06/2010 at 23:59:48 - Assistant Editor Kate Sommers-Dawes is in Spain today (El Día del Español) and writes: Had an outstanding tour of Malaga today after visiting Malaca Language School in the hills surrounding the city w ...

24/08/2010 at 16:53:00 - The chaos afflicting university entrance may have a domino effect on further education, a union has warned.

20/08/2010 at 00:00:00 - Over 275,000 students who applied to enter university this year are yet to secure a place, latest figures show.

19/08/2010 at 16:00:00 - Higher education minister David Willetts has dismissed the perennial 'dumbing-down' debate following yet another year of improvements in A-level scores.

17/08/2010 at 00:00:00 - The government could save money by paying employers to take on disadvantaged young people as interns, a thinktank has claimed.

16/08/2010 at 00:00:00 - Around 3,500 A-level students with straight-As will not get into university this year, higher education minister David Willetts has warned.

13/08/2010 at 00:01:00 - David Willetts has underlined the coalition's interest in a graduate tax, after a survey suggested the average student's final debt now stands at £16,614.

02/09/2010 at 16:20:13 - The Colorado Attorney General's Office informed the state board of education that breaching the controversial shroud of secrecy that drapes teacher arrest records maintained by the state constitutes a ...

02/09/2010 at 16:20:13 - Washington state's schools chief suspended the teaching certificate of a teacher who was convicted of inappropriately touching girls and then was brought back into the classroom after a short suspensi ...

31/08/2010 at 17:20:13 - Parents pulled their children out of class and protested outside a Washington state school Monday, the day a teacher convicted of inappropriately touching female students was scheduled to return to wo ...

30/08/2010 at 19:20:12 - A North Carolina county has made it a focus to push their curriculums towards a more global education, with students fully immersed in a foreign language by kindergarten.

30/08/2010 at 19:20:12 - In the decade since cyber charter schools first opened to Pennsylvania students, turning on a computer instead of hopping on the bus has just ..clicked.