There is less than a week left to choose what secondary school your child will go to. The transfer period for school admissions in Gloucestershire ends on October 31, with March 1 next year set for allocation. This year saw 4435 students get their first preference, a 3% increase from 2017 (this excludes grammar schools […]
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Sex Education: Is it outdated?
Do you remember being shown a VCR tape of how reproduction works in school, and the teachers calling that sex education? Because I do. And that tape was clearly from the 70’s. My teacher, literally blew dust off it before she put it in the TV. So with sexual culture changing rapidly, especially in the […]
Studying Abroad: Christmas in the Czech Republic
Being a student in England can be stressful enough, imagine what its like moving away from home for the first time and not even speaking the language. That’s exactly what Meg Jenner from Cheltenham did, when she decided to pack up her bags and move so she could study at Prague College. While freshers are […]
The 11 year gap – A mature student’s experience in Higher Education
It’s midnight, I’ve already spent 3 hours on the phone trying to calm my nan down who’s hallucinating, telling me she is seeing men stab each other in her house. She has severe Alzheimer’s. I help my mum to calm her down. The phone goes a further 3 times that night, my nan has now […]
Are you smarter than a 10-year-old?
There’s no doubt that we all learned a lot at school – from subtraction to science, algebra to accounting, our days were not boring. However, were the barrels of facts that were thrown our way actually useful to us in later life? Our journalists took a quiz to see what they remember from school ARE YOU […]
Reassessment mess: How Gloucestershire students nearly missed out
Nearly a hundred GCSE results in Gloucestershire have been changed after reassessment due to an administration error. Students at the Cotswold School and Balcarras School submitted their papers to be reviewed, expecting them to change by a couple of marks. However, after some papers came back with a difference of two grade boundaries, schools resubmitted […]
Survey suggests public want politics rather than religion
The majority of the British public believe that religious studies should be replaced by politics at secondary school, a survey suggests. In the survey of 2,000 people, commissioned by the political youth platform Shout Out UK, 92% said they believed politics should be a compulsory subject in the national curriculum, with 57% of respondents saying […]
World Aids Day: The fight against the prejudice
Around 100,000 people live in the UK with HIV or AIDs. It’s estimated that 36.7 million people globally have the virus and more than 35 million people have died since it’s discovery in 1984; making it one of the most destructive diseases in history. Each year around 6,000 people are diagnosed with HIV in the UK. […]
Britain is at the forefront of a “technology revolution” – Phillip Hammond’s budget looks to match European partners
Mathematic’s and Technology are clearly the priorities of Phillip Hammond’s 2017 budget as he begins to make Britain a lead force in the technological age. Hammond’s vision for a science and technology-based future has promised a £600 boost to schools and colleges for every extra sixth-former who takes A-level or core maths; more than £80million will be […]
This girl could: but does she?
GB Triathlete Emily Burton says “there still needs to be more done to encourage girls into sport.” A study released by ‘Women in Sport’ has found that girls in Secondary schools are still not taking part in PE. The research found that 78% of 14 to 16 year-olds understand that physical activity is important, but only 1 in 4 take part. […]