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‘Don’t let pupils paddle without risk assessment’

06.11.09
Children must never be allowed to go paddling on school trips unless teachers have conducted a thorough risk assessment first, the Government said today... more

Thousands of 14-year-olds falling behind in English

27.10.09
Almost 130,000 teenagers are failing to reach the standard expected of them in English, official figures show... more

BT boss says scrap GCSE exams to boost literacy

15.10.09
Chairman of BT calls for GCSEs and A-levels to be replaced by the International Baccalaureate... more

Town halls want hit squads to target academies academies pupils

15.09.09
Council hit squads could be sent in to take over failing academies under a radical blueprint for London schools... more

Boys fall into gender gap before they start school

29.07.09
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School places cash announcement expected

13.07.09
Extra funding to help provide new primary school places in parts of England struggling with shortages is expected to be announced by the Government this week... more

£200m to provide more school places

13.07.09
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New promises won't end this schools muddle

02.07.09
As a parent, I often feel baffled by the Government's approach to education. Only last week, the Department for Children, Schools and Families was at its micro-managerial best... more

Sikh primary is a monstrosity that breaks planning rules, say residents

24.06.09
A multi-million-pound faith school is under investigation over claims that it is in breach of planning rules... more

New tests for pupils 'are being rushed in too quickly'

23.06.09
A new system of tests intended to replace Sats in state schools has suffered serious problems, according to reports... more

Balls blunder over 'unlawful' bonuses for headteachers

22.04.09
Children's Secretary Ed Balls faced embarrassment after he backed "unlawful" bonus payments for state school headteachers... more

Education at primaries 'is deficient'

20.02.09
Children's lives are being impoverished by an education that is "fundamentally deficient", a major inquiry concluded... more

State primaries short of places as parents shun private education

13.02.09
A London council is facing a massive shortage of primary school places as parents are no longer able to afford private education... more

Pupils given option to take harder exams

10.02.09
Teenagers in state schools will be able to abandon GCSEs in favour of harder O-level style exams under a ruling... more

Weather forces schools to close

02.02.09
Hundreds of schools have been forced to close today due to the snow... more

We need to learn skills for life, not just passing exams, say teenagers

30.12.08
Teenagers say they are failing to learn the skills they need for work because education is dominated by exams... more

Teachers call in the Yard to tackle 2,700 fights

23.12.08
Police were called to tackle serious violence in London schools almost 2,700 times this year, it has been revealed... more

TV blamed as white working-class boys struggle

11.12.08
White British boys from poor families are falling further behind their classmates at school, figures show... more

Sats replacement exams are 'costly nightmare for schools'

03.12.08
Children's Secretary Ed Balls will unleash an "expensive nightmare" with his planned replacement for discredited Sats, an expert warned ... more

Ministers failed us, claim disillusioned academy sponsors

28.11.08
Ministers have "abused" the good will of wealthy business figures who sponsored the Government's city academies, a study has warned... more

Schools ban 4,000 unruly under-fives

06.11.08
More than 4,000 children aged five and under were thrown out of school for bad behaviour last year... more

Rise in families caught cheating for school places

22.10.08
There is growing evidence that more parents are lying about where they live in order to get their children into good schools... more

Family childcare crisis as holiday clubs close

04.08.08
Parents face a struggle to keep their children occupied over the summer break after the closure of hundreds of holiday clubs... more

Modern education 'turning children into little robots'

23.07.08
Young children are being turned into "little robots" because primary education has become a mini-version of secondary school, teachers have warned... more

Schools told to monitor pupils' health and homes

03.07.08
Schools and local authorities are to be made accountable for tackling drug abuse, pregnancies and obesity among pupils under measures to improve "wellbeing"... more

Teenage mentors help keep younger pupils out of trouble

02.06.08
Training teenagers to act as "mentors" to younger pupils helps change the culture leading to knife crime, new research shows... more

Rise in school place appeals

22.05.08
Parents' chances of winning an appeal for a better state school for their children worsened last year... more

Ofsted could check drug abuse and pregnancies

30.04.08
Schools could be made to keep records of teenage pregnancies, drug use and obesity among pupils, under government proposals... more

Thousands of 14-year-olds fail to reach school targets

28.02.08
Tens of thousands of pupils make little or no progress in the three Rs in the first years at secondary school, government figures show... more

Thousands of academy pupils suspended in discipline blitz

13.02.08
Academies in London have suspended thousands of pupils as they seek to establish a no-nonsense approach to discipline... more

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