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Karachi February 7, 2021 Educators and academics have expressed reservations over a recently-passed bill from the Senate for making the teaching of Arabic compulsory at all the educational institutions, saying that the economic prospects of teaching Arabic are low and adding more languages to the curriculum will further deteriorate the teaching standards of mathematics and science subjects. A few days earlier, the Senate of Pakistan passed the Compulsory Teaching of Arabic Language Bill 2020, ...

New year 12 maths subject delayed We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Victoria’s new year 12 mathematics subject, designed to boost the number of senior students studying maths, won’t be taught for two more years because of COVID-19. Year 12 foundation maths will be delivered in schools in 2023 rather than next year, the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority said. The delay will allow teachers and the p...

Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. Anyone who denies this statement is just willfully blind. But, it turns out, when you are focused on your ideology and not on real life, it’s pretty easy to end up being willfully blind. I’m really not casting aspersions on the ethics or motivations of people who believe in socialist solutions — I believe in some of those myself — but it’s crucial to face reality head-on. So, let me just justify statistically my statement about the SA’s tax rate...

Kerre McIvor: Critical maths - our kids are the collateral damage after years of teaching decline 6 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read Teachers stream students into ability-based groups far more than their global counterparts do, meaning children with potential miss out. Teachers stream students into ability-based groups far more than their global counterparts do, meaning children with potential miss out. OPINION: For as long as Ive been doing talkback radio, which is more than 20 years now, ...

The Productivity Commission's annualReport on Government Services, released yesterday, shows that Victorian school students are being let down by the...

Kerre McIvor: Fixing our shambolic education system should be doable (Photo / Getty) It is still a big regret of mine that I lost my way with maths.  I was really enjoying maths for years and years and then I hit fifth form and either it was the change of teacher or Id just reached my natural limit but one minute I had it, and the next minute it was gone.  One minute I was enjoying the glorious purity of solving equations, the next the numerals and symbols were just incomprehensible ciphers.�...

The Ministry of Education has enlisted a team of experts to tackle New Zealand childrens poor performance in maths. The ministry says it will make the maths curriculum clearer and give teachers more help (File image). Photo: 123RF It has commissioned the countrys top science body, the Royal Society, to investigate the maths curriculum and the best ways of teaching the subject. The ministry said it would also make the maths curriculum clearer and give teachers more help to teach it. It announce...

(AFP Photo / MANILA BULLETIN) In a series of tweets, poet and screenwriter Jerry Gracio slammed the statement of Cebu Rep. Eduardo Gullas who attributed the dismal performance of students in global reading, math, and science assessment to failure to teach effectively in elementary and high schools. Gullas called on the Department of Education to map out plans to boost the teaching of English in schools, noting that poor English reading and comprehension skills “have handicapped our students ...

Photo: 123RF The Principals Federation says achievement in maths and science in particular should be ringing alarm bells and schools need more direction on what they should be teaching and the best ways to teach it. In a letter to the secretary for education, Iona Holsted, the federations president, Perry Rush, said New Zealands falling scores had not provoked an urgent response and the lack of "thought leadership" was a serious weakness. Holsted responded with a letter that said the Ministry o...

New Zealand kids maths results have stayed stagnant - while other countries have zoomed ahead New Zealand kids maths results have stayed stagnant - while other countries have zoomed ahead 2 February 2021 An expert panels been called in to improve students math results and shake up the curriculum. The latest Trends in International Mathematic and Science survey found Kiwi students maths knowledge in the first year of high school, was below all other English speaking countries. Massey Univers...