It's natural for parents to look for their children's strengths and special gifts, but some children really do seem to have a gift for learning that others can only dream of. Here we look at three famous child prodigies from the academic and musical worlds and find out what happened to them...
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Read more ›The Centre for Policy Studies has recommended that two thirds of the current educational Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisations (Quangos) be scrapped.
Educational Quangos are responsible for the development of the exam system, curricula and teacher training among other aspects, meaning the...
Read more ›The last month has seen a stream of interest in the two World Wars as these events begin to fade from living memory. In the UK, the deaths of Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, our last two veterans of World War I, have sparked a time of national remembrance.
Meanwhile, in Germany this week, a 90-yea...
Read more ›It seems that not a day goes by without some reference to Twitter in the media; be it a wayward politician telling all about inner-party secrets or an overpaid footballer throwing a tantrum about their recent transfer dealings, Twitter seems to be the weapon of choice if you want to make yourself he...
Read more ›We have recently found there to be increasing demand for online tuition using freely available Internet technology as an enabler to remote learning. For some subjects this will work particularly well, e.g. languages where the tutee may require substantial oral work or help in a more piecewise fashio...
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