Offer cash rewards to underachievers to boost GCSE results, study says
Experiment involving 10,600 students finds up to 10% improvement in exam grades and pass rates for worst performing pupils
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quantum Physics in Modern Mathematics
In recent years ideas from quantum field theory, elementary particles physics and string theory have completely transformed mathematics, leading to solutions of deep problems, suggesting new invariants in geometry and topology, and, perhaps most importantly, putting modern mathematical ideas in a `natural’ context.
May defends grammars and plans for universities’ role in state schools
At a Friends of Grammar schools reception at the House of Commons, Theresa May called on supporters of plans to take part in government consultation
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