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The Education Group recently invited Prof Heather Joshi, Director
of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, to speak 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.
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.
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'Our children - their future'
A wide-ranging seminar with this title is to be held at
Sevenoaks in Kent on Monday, 17 March 2008, from 10am to
3.45pm, arranged by the NCW Sevenoaks Branch.
Speakers:
Chris Cloke, Head of the NSPCC
Child Protection Unit,
Paul Ennals, Head of thr National Children' Bureau, and
Prof Chris Woodhead, Professor of Education at
Buckingham University
For tickets at £12.50, to include a sandwich lunch phone 01732
453313 or 01732 741512.
'It's a girl!'
A seminar is being arranged for sixth-formers to meet some NCW
members on Wednesday, 12 March 2008 at Nottingham Girls' High
School. They will discuss an issue of NCW concern. The
title 'It's a girl' will cover how the baby girl can end up in
prison and or can become trafficked The speakers will
include Lucie Russell of Affiliate Smart Justice and Lois Hainsworth
MBE (an NCW Honorary Vice-President).
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