Cheating in schools doesn’t seem to be noteworthy enough to be mentioned here. In this particular case however it absolutely merits your attention. In order to answer the yearly progress requirements of the “No Child is Left Behind Act”, which is linked to financial support and in the last consequence to a school’s existence and…
Tag Archive: Education
England – Over-Protected Kids as Major Societal Risk
England is obsessed with security. Especially children are affected by regulatory and parental care aiming at eliminating every possible risk in their children’s life. Therefore, some 20 millions English working with children has to pass police security checks – numerous authors who declined are now banned from reading their books to school classes. In one…
British Education – Taxing Academics Instead of Charging Students
Facing massive budget cuts, England’s administration gets creative. Instead of further increasing university fees – already the highest in Europe – the ministry of education is thinking about radically changing the system, eliminating fees altogether and introducing a life-long university tax for successful graduates. Like this, socially disadvantaged students could study much more easily, high-income…
Education investments – Worthwile in the Long Run
A recently published OECD-study confirms that a better overall education system makes a big difference. A worldwide increase of 25 points in the PISA study (comparative education success study) during the next 20 years would trigger 115 trillion dollars benefits over 80 years. Germany would gain 5000 billions and if German pupils managed to become…
