Alistair Owens MD www.keen2learn.co.uk The growth in the use of computers in education will have profound effect on our children's handwriting skills. The ability to type is becoming the first parameter in communication over any cursive script skill....

Maths and English, the two stalwarts in our educational programmes are the subject of further games being played between the DCFS, schools and examining boards. The chief executive of the Oxford Cambridge and RSA (OCR) awarding body says that without a...

By Alistair Owens www.keen2learn.co.uk Good to see the mighty Advanced Micro Devices – AMD is entering the educational games ring. Bolstered no doubt by their recent Eur 1.06 billion damages award from Intel, they are developing their “Changing...

Storytelling is under threat from technology. Children, distracted by Nintendo, video games and Wii leave little quality time available for parents to read to them. But technology fights back in the MightyBook on-line reading games now available to...

A recent report has revealed 23 per cent of children at primary level fail to reach the standards expected of them in maths. Despite a massive injection of 2.3 billion pounds during 2006 – 07 for teaching maths we still fail a huge number of...