Education

Kitchen Nightmare on Lismore

Tuesday, 19 May 2009 09:30
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Education Guardian

What children put into their mouths at lunchtime has become one of the touchstone political issues of our age and a money-saving plan by Argyll council in Scotland to shut six Hebridean island school kitchens was recently shot down by parental anger.

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Mechanical enginering at Dundee

Tuesday, 12 May 2009 15:31
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From the Guardian University Guide

The University of Dundee has motored up the mechanical engineering tables, coming from outside the top 20 last year to third place.

This is the first year that students have built a formula student racing car to race in a university competition at Silverstone - a project that the department head, Robert Keatch, says they are hugely enjoying and which is helping their team-working skills.

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Cracking cocaine

Tuesday, 05 May 2009 15:36
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Most of the pupils at Girvan academy are smartly dressed in school uniform, shirts and ties, and it seems an unlikely place to find juvenile cocaine experts.

But this school in Ayrshire has piloted an anti-drugs programme on cocaine that is to be rolled out across Scotland. Pupils have worked with the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency and Learning Teaching Scotland (LTS), the government-funded body that develops the curriculum, to come up with a programme that focuses not on the health risks of cocaine use but on its environmental and social damage.

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Does classroom size really matter, Mr Clegg?

Tuesday, 24 February 2009 09:36
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Guardian Education blog.

The Lib Dem leader's policy pledge to reduce early years class sizes may seem like common sense – until we realise how impracticable it is.

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School-age drinkers with adult problems

Tuesday, 09 December 2008 10:33
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A prominent Scottish professor will denounce the use of education cash to fund "mumbo jumbo" in a public lecture tomorrow.

Professor Sergio Della Sala, Professor of Human Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh, will use part of a prize-winning public lecture to voice his concern that Scottish schools are paying thousands of pounds to train teachers in controversial techniques such as "brain gym" and "neuro-physiological psychology". The professor - the first winner of a prize for science communication, named in honour of Tam Dalyell, which will be awarded by the former MP tomorrow - is angry public money is being paid to those he called "pranksters". Prof Sala says he is "outraged"

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