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Cambridge Econometrics says the UK is set to miss the 2017 climate change targets it is legally bound to meet, and will also miss future targets by increasingly larger margins. “The unmistakable lesson from the effect of emissions reduction policies 1997-2010 is that policies tend to have a lower impact than forecast, and therefore their strength needs to be increased if targets are to be achieved,” [...]

The secretary for education Michael Gove praised the use of video games as a tool for learning at the Royal Society last week. In a comprehensive speech on the future of education, Gove said “When children need to solve equations in order to get more ammo to shoot the aliens, it is amazing how quickly they can learn”. “I am sure that this field of educational games has huge potential [...]

Another set of recently-released government figures show that a third of secondary pupils in England fail to reach their potential in maths – and that a quarter are also making insufficient progress in English. According to the official data around 200,000 maths pupils are failing to make the progress expected of them between starting secondary school and finishing GCSE. The data also shows a [...]

Last summer, 45% of 16-year-olds in the UK failed to achieve a C grade in English and maths. A government-commissioned review of vocational qualifications, published in March, which criticised the number of pupils leaving school without a basic grasp of English or maths has prompted the education secretary, Michael Gove, to introduce radical new measures. From 2015, teenagers who fail to achieve a [...]

There are lots of websites that will ask your child to work out the product of 2 and 3 and then pat them on the back for getting the correct answer, but what use is such a false sense of achievement in the real world? Here at Learnalot we firmly believe in realising a child’s true potential and we do this by offering engaging but challenging tasks with tangible rewards. We don’t volunteer [...]

Learnalot‘s latest resource tasks learners with ridding a haunted house of its unwelcome inhabitants through clever use of trigonometry, Pythagoras’ theorem, multiplying brackets, negative numbers and more. It’s the latest in a fast-growing line of high-quality software designed to engage and enthuse today’s maths students and is available at www.learnalot.com. How does one [...]

How does one capture the imagination of today’s learners with a discipline that many of them have already categorised as ‘boring’ by their 11th birthday? How can such a discipline hope to compete with other, more ‘glamorous’ subjects – let alone with all of the other distractions that vie for students’ attention such as video games and music? At Learnalot we [...]

We’ve just received student testimonials from Pedmore CofE Primary in Dudley, and are incredibly pleased with how well-received Learnalot has been in the school. Every resource gets a mention somewhere or other so we’ve clearly managed to strike a healthy balance of topics in our launch library, and are looking forward to expanding the range still further over the coming months. Take a [...]

You may already be using learning resources at your school, so why would you want to switch to Learnalot? Well, here are just a few reasons: Content Our resources are designed by teachers and subject matter experts. Each resource also comes with comprehensive lesson plans, teacher notes and worksheets. Production values Our resources are developed by software industry veterans. This allows us to fuse [...]