There is no law governing homework in Northern Ireland, so every school must devise their own policy and share it with ...

HOMEWORK – few like it, many hate it. It can help children develop study skills, and to build on their classroom learning. But it can cause undue stress, eat away at leisure and family time and is not ...

It was meant to be an innovative policy, designed to foster independence and self-motivation. But parents at Philip Morant School and College are in open revolt at the “no homework” policy, as they ...

If you want to start an argument among people who feel passionately about education, just lob the h-word into the conversation. How much homework should children do? Should they even do homework at ...

Head at the school says 'there are not enough hours in the day for a teacher to teach, set homework, mark homework, and plan their lessons' A SCHOOL has scrapped all homework – to give teachers more ...

University of Stirling provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. At the beginning of this school year, it wasn’t just children who were grumbling about homework. A despairing comment on ...

A school that controversially banned homework two years ago has backtracked and brought it back following backlash from parents. Philip Morant School and College in Colchester, Essex scrapped ...

I come, not to bury homework, but to praise it. Recent discussions about cancelling homework for good seem to be focused almost entirely on the needs of time-poor parents, rather than the benefits to ...

It is the scourge of schoolchildren up and down the country. Classes can often be heard letting out a collective groan when the teacher mentions homework, ruining plans for a night watching films or ...

A school in the Highlands has stopped setting homework for its 175 pupils. The decision was taken at Highland Council-run Inverlochy Primary in Fort William after the children and their parents voted ...

Alex Taylor thinks school homework is a waste of time. As he goes through his physics homework, Alex, a pupil at a secondary school in Edinburgh, thinks there are few benefits in the ritual. Its head ...

Just one look at your child’s face after school and you know you’re in for a long night struggling with math homework, answering questions about past and present tenses and giving advice about what ...