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News | Published in The TES on 17 June, 2011 | By: Kerra Maddern Services for the brightest children risk being "decimated" following the end of Government funding for gifted and talented (G&T) programmes, campaigners have warned. Regional partnerships that delivered support to the most able children are struggling to survive after their funding was axed in March, they have revealed. The 10 partnerships provided teachers with training in how to develop particularly bright pupils and also lai...
News | Published in The TES on 13 May, 2011 | By: William Stewart League table measures aim to prevent high and low attainers being ignored. New league table measures aimed at ensuring that teachers pay attention to high and low-attaining pupils are being introduced by ministers this year. They are being designed to discourage a concentration of resources on borderline C/D GCSE grade or primary level 3/4 pupils by schools trying to maximise their scores on the main performance indicators.
Article | Published in The TES on 4 May, 2007 | By: Adi Bloom Many high-flyers put their energy into hiding their intelligence, while concealing impatience with their classmates' ability, Adi Bloom reports. Gifted pupils often devote their intelligence to hiding their abilities from their peers at school, but in private are scathing of their classmates' ignorance, American researchers have found. Older teenagers in particular are likely to hide their academic talent to ensure they fit in with th...
Groups say scrapping of national scheme has left policy 'rudderless'. Campaign groups are to work together to fight for gifted and talented pupils following the scrapping of a national scheme, which they say has left the policy "rudderless". Labour ministers ended a centrally managed system for the brightest pupils and replaced it with provision run by teachers in individual schools.