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Guest blog post: English and maths made easy

By Catherine Langstreth, Advanced Practitioner and English and maths Tutor, Friday 28 March 2014

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Welcome to the first ‘English and maths Made Easy' column by Bolton College! Over the next few months, Pat Harrison, Director of 14 – 19 and Strategic Lead for English and Maths, and Catherine Langstreth, Advanced Practitioner and English and maths Tutor, will be dispelling myths about the two subjects, providing hints and tips to help you in everyday life, as well as telling some inspirational stories about how developing maths and English skills has transformed the lives of people in Lancashire – at home, at work and when out and about in their home town. Most of the time we don't think about maths and English – but the funny thing is, they're everywhere we go. At home: paying for bills, reading letters, reading instructions on how to cook something. At work: communicating with colleagues, customers, calculating our wages, booking holidays. In our social life: reading road signs, paying for shopping/petrol, sharing a bill in a restaurant, reading a menu. Sometimes, it's the simplest things that stump us, but it doesn't have to be that way. The two subjects combined can open up a whole host of opportunities – promotions at work, new interests in life and jobs we thought that weren't possible.

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Excessive workload driving head teachers away

By Alex Wilson, Work Experience student, Wednesday 26 March 2014

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3 in 10 senior members of staff in schools are planning to leave according to recent workload figures. The official figures show that head teachers are working on average 63 hours a week with 82% of staff claiming their workload has increased since last year.

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The future's...digital?

By Lindsay Plumpton, Communications Leader, Tuesday 25 March 2014

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Looking to the future, the landscape of educational delivery is far from clear, particularly with regards to the use of technology in education – a hot topic on everyone’s lips at the moment. This month, a report was published by the Further Education Learning Technology Action Group (FELTAG), making a number of interesting recommendations to Skills Minister Matthew Hancock regarding their vision of a digital future.

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The employability mindset

By Kristina Gray, Communications Assistant, Thursday 20 March 2014

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The start of 2014 showed some promise with unemployment figures decreasing in the UK. The number of people out of work in the UK fell by 63,000 to 2.33 million which is definitely a positive sign, however 17.9% of young people aged 16-24 who aren’t in full time education are still unemployed. The figures show there are more opportunities for employment, however it may be difficult for young people to capitalise on them and secure a job if they aren’t fully prepared for what’s ahead of them.

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Changing attitudes towards maths

By , Tuesday 18 March 2014

The Welsh government have suggested that parents need to change their negative attitude towards mathematics in order to encourage their children to not only pursue the subject, but to realise its true value and ensure they excel in it. A poll commissioned by the Welsh government showed that 29% of parents admitted to making negative comments about maths in front of their children, such as “don’t ask me to do maths, I’m rubbish at it.”

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