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UK Primary Schools Failing in Reading and Math
The UK Department of Education is set to publish official league tables that will show that around 1 in 16 state primaries are falling short of basic targets in English and math, with more than 1,000...
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Numeracy Campaign Targets British Math Drop Out Rate
Schoolchildren in the UK are less likely to study math beyond the age of 16 than most other developed countries — and it’s because of the way math is taught, claims an academic. Professor Stephen...
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UK Students Struggle with University-Level Math
A new report published by the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) has found that officials in UK universities are being forced to “dumb down” standards of math because of the amount of students who say that...
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UK Having Difficulty Recruiting Science Teachers
With 6 months to go until the start of next year’s UK teacher training courses, 70% of places on physics courses remain unfilled — as do almost half of places for math teachers. The Training and...
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UK Students Learning Times Tables Early Means Math Success
Nick Gibb, the Minister of State for Schools in the UK’s coalition government, said that more British schools should have their students learn the times table by heart in order to prepare them for...
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UK Teachers Often Lack Degrees in Subjects They Teach
One quarter of mathematics teachers in England don’t have a degree in the subject according to the data released by the Department of Education. In all, that means that 9,500 teachers around the...
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UK Lords Condemn State of Pre-University Math Education
There is more concern that standards in UK schools have slipped woefully low as a House of Lords report blames a modular A-level system — which lets students skip certain critical fields such as...
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Gibb Accuses UK Teachers Unions of Blocking Math Standards
Fingerpointing is in full swing in England as the former Schools Minister Nick Gibb is accusing the “education establishment” of creating a barrier to the adoption of any program that would...
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Tories Tout Parent Math Classes Ahead of UK Election
The UK’s Conservative Party has plans to give math lessons to parents in schools in order for the parents to help their children with homework. The Daily Telegraph has been told that a Conservative...
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UK Math Standards Declined From 1960s – 1990s, Study Shows
According to results from a recently released comprehensive study of qualification standards, experts at Loughborough University specializing in math say that exams in the subject have become easier,...
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