Compulsory education

In his essay “So That Nobody Has to Go to School If They Don’t Want To”, Roger Sipher states that abolishing mandatory attendance laws would improve public school education. Roger notes declining standardized test scores among students, shows that there’s a problem with our public education. Roger believes a major factor behind the decreasing performance is the schools increasing demand to facilitate all children, who may or may not have a desire to learn. The demand for an institution of…

physics in post-compulsory education is significantly lower than other subjects ((Roberts, 2002) as cited by (Bennet, et al., 2013)). As a result, there are concerns for the future work force as there are “predicted shortages of people electing to pursue careers related to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)” (Bennet, et al., 2013, p. 663). Therefore, it is extremely important to increase the number of pupils selecting physics for their A-Level studies and further education.…

and as children not being strong enough to get out and people not remembering they were there and the fumes they inhaled from cleaning chimneys. With these two acts in place the government managed to abolish child labour and introduce in 1870 compulsory education for all children.…

There are several factors that play an important role in learning a language, one of which is attitude. Attitude is defined as one of the most important factors that impacts in learning a language (Fakeye, 2010). It is also characterized by a large proportion of emotional involvement like feelings, self, and relationships in the community (Brown, 2001). It is said that language teachers, researchers, and students should recognize that positive attitude and high motivation help language learner…

types of educational and psychological practitioners loosely mobilized around a central role of “psycho-educational assessment” or what we now call special education (History Timeline). The very start into providing psychological services in schools can be traced back to the social reform era. A few popular movements during this time were “compulsory schooling, juvenile courts, child labor law, mental health and vocational guidance. ()” These advances to society were perhaps the leading force in…

Training sports and getting education are both compulsory courses for Chinese students in school system, especially before students graduate from high school. In the adolescent age, students would spend most of their time in school. At this time, the mental and physical of students start be maturity and transmit to adult, however, students cannot just stay inside to get education all day, to have appropriate sports practice would be important as getting education in high school. However, some…

overemphasis on English has led to children frequently using English at home thus decreasing the usage of their Mother Tongue languages (MT), such as Mandarin, Malay and Tamil (Bolton & Ng, 2014). Hence, Ministry of Education (MOE) implemented a MT approach, also known as Bilingual Education Policy (MOE, 1991 as cited by Shah & Yusof, 2006). In other countries, dual immersion programs were implemented. This essay will analyze the benefits of Singapore’s MT approach by making comparison with a…

A study carried out by O2 (2013) found that “Britain will need 750,000 skilled digital workers by 2017 - and if we can’t support that growth, it could result in costing the UK as much as £2bn each year”. If this isn’t alarming enough, research conducted by Next Gen Skills (2011) showed that “there were just 56,025 UK computer science graduates in 2011, which was a drop of 23.3% over the past 10 years.” Reiterating the point that coding should be implemented into the school curriculum for…

The institution of education has proved to be pivotal in the construction and development of children and young people. Through the education system, Individuals learn and acquire different skills, aptitudes and abilities which become beneficial towards gaining future employment. It can be argued that the education system acts as a key institution in reinforcing gender stereotypes. The education system also acts as a key site of gender configuration playing, socialising and forming the…

in the case? The judgement was delivered by Lord Hale who commenced by stating the main issue regarding the meaning of “regularly” with respect to a child’s attendance at school and brought up the instance in which the word was brought up in the Education Act 1996. She then outlines the facts of the case – Mr. Platt had brought his daughter (Mary) out on holiday despite his request to remove Mary from school during term time being denied. Proceedings were brought up against the respondent in…