Tens of thousands of students found themselves locked into the biggest scramble for university places in history as the admissions website crashed and clearing places vanished within minutes... more
About a third of pupils fail to fulfil their potential in English and maths - but London children are doing better than in the rest of the country... more
Teachers could be exposed to legal action if they follow government directives to search pupils for mobile phones, iPods and cigarettes, union leaders warned... more
State school pupils will be allowed to take harder exams that have been likened to traditional O-levels instead of mainstream GCSEs, ministers announce... more
Schools Secretary Ed Balls was today urged to distance himself from a rap star who sent a death threat text message to a woman who criticised him... more
The former head of the Government's schools testing agency, who resigned over the Sats fiasco, will be paid £180,000 for the six months following his suspension last year, it emerged... more
Gordon Brown's "burdensome" school targets have failed to improve the results of children who struggle most in class, the Government has admitted... more
State schools were accused of failing the brightest children after figures showed a shock fall in the number of 11-year-olds scoring top grades in Sats... more
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