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‘You are not bad at maths,” she says firmly after our first session, with a confidence I do not share. “What you were presented with aged seven was never processed or absorbed. The groundwork wasn’t laid. You need to understand the concepts and you never did.”

My midlife maths challenge — I’m going back to school At school, Hilary Rose was so bad, her top exam mark was 18 per cent. Can she solve her problem with numbers in two weeks?

Wow: autism is certainly something to rave about. Many young people will relate to aspects of Fern’s experiences, I suspect!

Will talking about my autism torpedo my career and s*x life? In public Fern Brady is a successful stand-up comedian. In private she has violent meltdowns and extreme social anxiety. Now she knows why

During the pandemic…”Everyone had two years at home and for some children that was really appealing. Afterwards they found coming back into the social arena very difficult.‘

My teenager refuses to go to school — a mother’s story What can you do when your child doesn’t fit the academic mould, asks Lucy Cavendish, mother of Ottoline

‘At Davos this year, pundits liked to throw around fancy words like “polycrisis”, which refers to how the world is being battered by multiple crises at once. Gen Z have lived it; it’s all they’ve known.”

Eerily quiet and sad: how lockdown affected students — by their teachers The primary school leaderIt was the twitching thumbs I noticed when the children came back in September 2021 after successive lockdowns.They were glad they were

“The analysis showed significant raw gaps in reading, science and maths performance, with pupils in single-s*x schools performing better than those in mixed-schools.

However, once the researchers applied a range of individual and school level factors such as the socioeconomic background of the student, the school student-staff ratio, the quality of teaching material available to the school and whether or not the school is disadvantaged, these gaps did not present as statistically significant.”

No academic advantage to attending single-s*x schools, research suggests The study looked at academic performance among children attending single s*x and mixed schools.

Excruciating emotions in a fabulous beach setting! As this article explains you can watch this short film for free on YouTube for the next few days.

Newcastle setting for movie exploring relationship between young gay man and his father They’re brimming with nostalgia, memories of family days out, ice creams and chippies, long summer days.

Decolonising Maths sounds a good move! This book gives some helpful references that provide food for thought (for instance about Einstein)

Book Launch with Sandew Hira: Decolonizing The Mind – a guide to decolonial theory and practice - IHRC Join us for an inspiring book launch with Sandew Hira for his latest publication, Decolonizing The Mind – a guide to decolonial theory and practice.

This put some figures on the shortage of Support Teachers in secondary schools...

Teacher who removed son from school says system failing dyslexic children Children with suspected dyslexia should be supported from nursery age to avoid a “miserable” school life, according to a specialist teacher who…

Land clearing was a given as the primary cause of wildlife losses. Between 2000 and 2017, seven million hectares of land — more than three times the size of Wales — was cleared across Australia.

Australia suffering catastrophic loss of wildlife Australia has lost more mammal species than any other continent and suffered catastrophic losses of wildlife and habitat, a “shocking” report has revealed.The l

Mundher Al-Adhami obituary Other lives: Iraqi-born political activist and pioneer in maths education who supported teachers in challenging children to think

Andreas Schleicher, director of education at the OECD, said: “In Estonia, nobody would have this term ‘extracurricular activity’. For them, that is the curriculum.”

How Estonia does it: Lessons from Europe’s best school system In Estonia children learn robotics from the age of seven and teachers use virtual reality to bring geography, chemistry, history and languages to life. This tin