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The Education Group invited Prof Heather
Joshi, Director of the Centre for Longitudinal
Studies, to a meeting at Danbury Street to talk
about her research on ‘the wealth gap in learning by
age three’, which had been featured on the radio in
the summer of 2007.
The
study showed for the first time, based on detailed
interviews of the parents of children born in 2000,
following their progress from birth to age three, that
there were by then wide differences in the children's
grasp of letters, numbers, colours, and shapes, that
depended on the income of families, their level
of education and their ethnicity. Many past
surveys had shown that some parents transmit more
advantages to their children than others.
However, it came as a surprise that the
Millennium Survey data indicated that the relationship
showed up as early as the age of three.
David
Moore, Assistant Divisional Manager of Ofsted, spoke
on behaviour problems in schools at the Education
group's June 2006 meeting at Danbury Street.
His
opinion was that the measures in the Education
Bill 2006 relating to behaviour – a power
for staff to discipline pupils, and improved provision
for excluded pupils, would help to improve discipline. He
said that schools will in future have to make
special educational provision for excluded pupils on
the sixth day of exclusion. [MORE] |
'Our children - their
future'
A
wide-ranging seminar with this title was held at
Sevenoaks in Kent on Monday, 17 March 2008,
arranged by the NCW Sevenoaks Branch.
Speakers:
Chris Cloke, Head of the NSPCC
Child Protection Unit,
Valerie
May,
Head of the
New
School
at West Heath, Sevenoaks,
and
Prof Chris Woodhead, Professor of Education at
Buckingham University
[MORE]
'It's
a girl!'
A seminar was held for sixth-formers to meet some NCW
members in March 2008 at Nottingham Girls' High
School. They discussed an issue of NCW concern:
the title 'It's a girl' covers how the baby girl
can end up in prison and /or can become trafficked
The speakers included Lucie Russell of NCW Affiliate Smart
Justice and Lois Hainsworth MBE (an NCW Honorary
Vice-President). Similar seminars for
sixth-formers will be held in Darlington and Hereford
in 2009. [MORE]
NCW has responded recently to a Government
consultation:
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