More than 14 million people in the UK have logged on to the internet from home, and new applications like tracing long-lost school-friends are pulling in the punters. Friendsreunited.co.uk, the site that allows users to track down old school...
Now, it seems, even paper could go the same way, as one school in the US has announced it is to get rid of textbooks in favour of laptops. Around 350 students of the Empire High School, Arizona, will be loaned a laptop during the school year, with...
Did school ever matter? The last of my four children is finally out of the school system and on his way to university. School's out and so are the exam results. After 27 years and arm wrestling the system, I am at last free from any more high...
The latest batch of A-Level and GCSE passes has once again highlighted a failing on the part of the UK school system, according to critics who fear education is now further adrift than ever from the needs of British business.
At the same time, one in 30 London school kids, the average size of a classroom, admitted bullying others online. Cam Matharu, technology programme manager at the NCH, the children's charity, told silicon.com: "It used to be that [bullying] stopped...
I reckon it's all because school's out. It happens every school vacation but I have never seen it so bad. Written in my home office and despatched to silicon.com from a free domestic wi-fi connection in a forest glade just outside Chelmsford UK