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£10million to train 4,000 teachers for dyslexic pupils

22.06.09
Children with dyslexia will receive extra help at school in a drive to train 4,000 specialist teachers, ministers have announced... more

Science Sats axed and the rest may go too

07.05.09
The Government has paved the way for the abolition of Sats... more

Schools to teach reading with Yahoo and geography with Google Earth

30.04.09
Children will use Google Earth to study geography and learn to read by searching the internet under major reforms to primary education... more

All children to start school at age four in primary reforms

30.04.09
All children will be expected to start primary school at the age of four under reforms ... more

Obama makes rhetoric cool for school

28.04.09
To understand why this week's government proposals to teach children to speak properly matter, think back to the US election... more

Children will be taught to speak formal English

27.04.09
An overhaul of the schools curriculum for seven to 11-year-olds will see pupils given lessons on how to speak proper English in formal settings... more

Primary pupils may be taught to Twitter

25.03.09
Primary school pupils could be taught to master Twitter and Wikipedia instead of learning about history... more

FTSE fall reflects wider anxieties

20.02.09
The fall in the value of shares today - the FTSE fell below 4000 - like the recession itself cannot entirely be blamed on Britain alone: part of it was attributable to events in America... more

Teachers ‘lack commitment’ to reading reforms

26.01.09
Schools are failing to implement government reforms of the teaching of reading three years after they were announced, a review warned... more

My two children, divided by classroom fads

11.12.08
My children are living proof of the damage done by passing educational fads. This is what makes my heart sink reading this week's government report by respected educationalist Sir Jim Rose on the primary school curriculum.... more

Stansted chaos: learn the lessons

08.12.08
When Ed Miliband, the Environment Secretary, said that he hoped that millions of people would take part in global protests to force governments to tackle climate change, he probably did not expect Stansted airport to be occupied by environmental protesters... more

History and geography to be axed in primaries

08.12.08
Traditional subjects such as history and geography will be scrapped in a radical overhaul of primary education... more

Adviser adds to pressure to scrap Sats

21.10.08
Schools Secretary Ed Balls came under pressure from his top education adviser to scrap primary school Sats... more

Education

08.10.08
The struggle to turn around some failing institutions has seen community leaders and politicians willing to embrace radical new teaching and funding methods. ... more

Primary pupils could be rated on lifestyle in lessons shake-up

23.09.08
Primary schools could assess children on healthy lifestyles and attitudes towards sex, instead of traditional academic subjects, under a radical plan by ministers... more

Reading lessons for teachers

27.06.08
Teachers are not being taught the necessary skills to help struggling children to read, a report says... more

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