The final bell rings, and children scurry off to their classes or the early morning assembly as a daily ritual, leaving the school building in pride. Children might not open their books to the benefits of schooling, but we will be lying if we said that good education doesn’t help Read more…
On 20 June 2019 Lord Agnew spoke at the Festival of Education at Wellington College in Berkshire, England. In his speech, he considered the current state of education in the UK, as well as looking at how far it has come and where it needs to get to. This wide-ranging Read more…
In a time where the average adult in the UK uses their smartphone every 12 minutes, is it realistic and, most of all, helpful to ban phones in schools? Whether it’s to do with work or hobbies or just daily life tasks – technology creeps into all aspects of Read more…
What is Lean Six Sigma? Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is a work methodology that makes the best use of time and resources in a business environment. Lean Six Sigma’s guidance and best practices are designed to help an organization streamline operations and remove waste while developing a better product. Read more…
In the past couple of decades, academics from the field of neuroscience have researched the effectiveness of different learning strategies on students’ attainment and performance. Using randomised controlled experiments and carefully designed protocols, these studies have consistently shown that some strategies are more effective than others. However, by the time Read more…
Chartered Engineering (CE or C.Eng.) is a nationally recognized professional degree that certifies the quality of the engineer residing in the UK and is awarded by the Engineering Council UK. Passing CE/C. Eng. is often needed to sign the engineering documents in the respective field and allow practising engineering within Read more…
Teaching is just as much an affair about emotional & psychological classroom management as it is about pedagogical skill – something I’ve learned over the course of my long teaching experience. I have been teaching as a secondary school teacher for some time now. About 18 years to be exact. Read more…
John Dewey rightly quoted, “If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” Adapting to the changes with the evolving time develops us into someone better and brighter than we were yesterday. The transformation from apes to humans, bullock carts to cars, Stone Age to Read more…
Some of today’s technologies have a great influence on the educational process and systems and help to enhance the learning. We are living in a technological era and in each and every field we can see the influence of technology and how it has led to great developments. Education was Read more…
We live in a day and age where technology moves into our lives in many places. From voice command devices like Alexa that allow us to organise things on the go to tablets or smartphones which help us deal with most aspects of our lives. Is it really far-fetched that Read more…