Physics GCSE: 'insultingly easy, non scientific, and vague'
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UK science education flushed away Physics GCSE papers are full of questions that are vague, stupid, insultingly easy, political, and non-scientific.â¦
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By HARRY RITCHIE  The Trouble With Physics by Lee Smolin Allen Lane/Penguin Pounds 25 Pounds 22.50 (0870 165 0870)    The most amazing aspect of science is the speed at which it advances.
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Changes to GCSE coursework, designed to eliminate plagiarism, are announced by the assembly government.
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Thought might not be dependent on language, according to new research by UK scientists.
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Lecturing on mathematics isn't Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's cup of tea. Imagining a world populated by skittish rabbits, hookah-smoking caterpillars and a Red Queen: That's his cup of tea. And maybe that's where he goes after dying on this day.
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In a new post to his blog, Jacob Santos talks about why object oriented programming just "isn't easy" - including a few of his dislikes about OOP in PHP.   Functional developers have it easy. Damn straight and I wonder why so many developers choose to write functions, when they can opt for more beautiful classes instead. [...] It is easy to get functions right, all you have to do is prefix them and name them properly and you're done.   He notes that most people get OOP up to a certain point - that being the "has-a" and "is-a" relationships - where things start flying over their heads. He expresses his dislike of the way that Singletons are used (or not used) and places some of the blame on the tutorial and book authors out there trying to teach novice programmers with analogies that don't make sense in a codign situation.
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Science instructor Roxanne Hunker&#39;s methods are a bit unorthodox: She shuns science textbooks and seldom assigns homework. Yet year after year, her hands-on instruction has groomed a multitude
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Ofsted chief David Bell says A-levels and GCSEs should be completely replaced by a diploma.
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An new maths A-level should be introduced to attract those who are not stretched, says QCA
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BBC education correspondent Mike Baker looks at what the GCSE figures reveal - and what they do not.
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There is no evidence children in smaller primary classes do better in maths or English, researchers say.
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Education Secretary Charles Clarke accused the Prince of Wales of being &quot;old-fashioned and out of time&quot; after details emerged that the heir to the throne believes that the schools system offers pupils too much aspiration and refuses to admit failures.
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The national test of student math skills is filled with easy questions, raising doubts about recent gains in achievement tests, a study contends.
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GCSE language students could cease taking oral tests because they are "too stressful", a report says.
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But we aren't really sure how Troubled Euro satnav initiative Galileo took something of a beating during a UK Parliamentary debate on Monday.â¦
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The BBC's Mike Baker looks at Conservative pledges to improve discipline in schools and finds no easy solutions.
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An independent watchdog is being launched in England to counter criticism that exams are getting easier.