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- A report by the House of Commons Public Accounts committee has revealed that one in five children leaves primary school with a poor understanding of maths, despite £2.3bn being spent on teaching it
- According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, increasing numbers of students are resorting to taking prescription stimulants, obtained via the internet, to help boost their results in exams
- The value of school governance, a key voluntary role in education, is showing a healthy increase despite the recession, according to new figures from the School Governors’ One-Stop Shop (SGOSS), a not-for-profit recruitment and placement organisation of volunteer governors in England, which published the data to demonstrate in financial terms the significance of governor volunteering in a downturn. Its report indicated that the average governor, contributing the equivalent of the nationally recognised rate of £16.50 per hour, giving seven hours per month, for nine months of the year during school term time, adds value worth £1,040 per annum. www.sgoss.org.uk
- The number of schools and colleges teaching the International Baccalaureate (IB) will rise to more than 300 by next year. This represents a nine-fold increase in a decade and a near doubling of the current figure of 167, reports The Daily Telegraph
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