Parents with young children can actually do a lot more to help improve their child’s future than they would expect. Studies show how parental involvement with their child’s education is one of the most important factors for determining future success, particularly when they are just starting to go to school and before then. Therefore, if you want to…

There is a bigger and bigger push occurring in the world of nurseries, pushing them to provide a more and more enriching environment for children’s early development, which in part leads towards them being a school in a way. They can be more than just the place parents leave their kids to be monitored while they’re off at…

International schools are increasingly becoming more popular as their students are continually getting admissions to the best universities around the globe. It is therefore evident that the quality of education that these schools provide deserves global respect. The schools have increased in number resulting to high demand for teaching staff and therefore international teaching jobs are readily available…

One thing has become increasingly clear over the last couple of decades, which is that the role of technology in teaching and education at large is increasing in importance, and is likely to continue to do so. The new technology which is being used to enhance teaching has been shown to be quite effective, while, unfortunately, those teachers…

Teacher effectiveness, while not the only important factor in improving education, still plays an important role. Improving it is something which every education department, in every country, has attempted to deal with at one time or another, but due to a number of reasons, most countries have yet to be successful. Both due to a lack of political…

Teacher effectiveness is a judgement made on how effective teachers are at their job. Thanks to some complex statistical analysis, we have been able to find out exactly how much the results of students in education is influenced by the quality of their teachers, such as with examinations of standardised tests. Teacher effectiveness is championed by a lot…

There is no doubt that the cat is out of the bag regarding sex. Children are exposed to sexually charged marketing material made for adults on a daily basis by watching TV, and the ready access to more explicit materials which can be found online are also a daily concern. It elicits some interesting questions, therefore, about how…

Nursery and childcare is something which gets neglected a lot in discussions about how we can improve the education of young people and give them a better starting point. This is despite nurseries quite literally being the starting point for a lot of children, both as a place where they learn stuff; like subjects, and socialising / interacting…

Writing out your work history needs to be done professionally as well, and while you’re allowed to omit your bad moments in previous work, it is very important that you don’t over embellish your history. Not only is it dishonest, but it also looks dishonest, likely inspiring the person assessing your CV to look deeper into things, which…