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Arabic on the curriculum: 'It isn't hard once you've learnt to transliterate'

Published: 19 October 2006

Current affairs mean that interest in Arabic is high - and schools are responding

Education Quandary

Published: 19 October 2006

'Schools are having to work on a new disability equality scheme. Surely it's just more bureaucracy?'

Partnerships with the state sector: Hands across the great divide

Published: 19 October 2006

Once a cloistered group protected from their state colleagues, independent school pupils are now going out into the community to learn how the other half live. By Amy McLellan

School fees: a harrowing time for the bursars

Published: 19 October 2006

Last year, schools were forced to stop co-operating over fee levels. Dick Davison looks at the fallout

Britain's top head bares her soul

Published: 19 October 2006

Visitors mistake her for her own secretary. But she is the head of the best-rated independent school in the country. Katy Ricks tells Hilary Wilce how an unorthodox approach helped her reach the top

Girls' Day School Trust: Where science is a popular choice

Published: 19 October 2006

The Girls' Day School Trust is readying its pupils for the global economy, says Virginia Matthews

Why academies will triumph

Published: 19 October 2006

As the architect of the Government's controversial academies programme, Lord Adonis has come in for heavy criticism. He tells Richard Garner why it was the right thing to do

Leading article: Faith in votes

Published: 19 October 2006

Catholic, Jewish and Muslim leaders were united in their outrage this week at government proposals to require all new faith schools to take 25 per cent of pupils from other faiths. Alan Johnson's amendment to the Education Bill, which is going through the House of Lords, aims to tackle criticism that Labour's expansion of faith schools will lead to segregation.

The Independent/Bosch Technology Horizons Award: The winners

Published: 19 October 2006

What's your vision of the next big technological change? The winners of our competition have their say

Leading article: Children in care deserve better

Published: 12 October 2006

The Government is right to give top priority to improving the lot of children in care in this week's Green Paper. The record of previous governments on this issue has been appalling. We sympathise with Sarah Teather, the Liberal Democrats' education spokeswoman, who said that it was "scandalous" that we had to wait until almost 10 years into a Labour government to hear some of the measures advanced earlier this week.

Boarding schools: Tom Brown's schooldays no more

Published: 12 October 2006

It might seem unlikely, but demand for places at state boarding schools is growing says Hilary Wilce

Does creationism have a place in the classroom?

Published: 12 October 2006

Secondary schools are being lobbied by a new group that attacks Darwin's theory of evolution. Some teachers are planning to adopt the creationist materials, others are fighting them. Nick Jackson reports

Education Quandary

Published: 12 October 2006

'We want a place at our local church primary, but don't want to be pretend church-goers'

Brenda Despontin: We don't need another hurdle for our children

Published: 12 October 2006

"I think we can really make a difference, you know." Hannah, one of my sparky sixth-formers, had hung behind at the end of school council, where the idea of our becoming an eco-school had been received with overwhelming enthusiasm. A pupil committee would begin its whole-school review, establish aims, targets, a time-frame, and raise awareness in staff and pupils of how small gestures can impact on the environment - and it would be fun.

Leading article: We need one exam system for all

Published: 05 October 2006

Andrew Boggis, chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), warned this week about the danger of independent schools breaking away from the traditional GCSE and A-level exams because they do not believe they are challenging enough for their pupils. Boggis, headmaster of Forest School in east London, believes that there should be a single national system of exams that all schools support - not a separate system of elite exams taken by private schools.

Education Quandary

Published: 05 October 2006

'My primary school pupils always get good test results. Why are results at 14 so poor?'

Bethan Marshall: The play's the thing to win the battle for the Bard

Published: 05 October 2006

In 1908 the recently formed English Association suggested that the best way to teach Shakespeare was to get children to act out his plays because, "There is a serious danger in the class-room, with text books open before us, of our forgetting what drama really means."

Truancy: So, why aren't you in school then?

Published: 05 October 2006

Truancy rates are at an all-time high - despite the Government spending nearly £1bn in an attempt to crack the problem. Hilary Wilce investigates what's going wrong

Textbook answers: a guide to online help with homework

Published: 04 October 2006

Endless hours spent in dusty libraries are ancient history. All the homework help your children need can be found online. Jimmy Lee Shreeve swots up on the websites that can turn kids into mini-Einsteins

Leading article: Citizenship and criticism do mix

Published: 28 September 2006

Lessons in citizenship, made compulsory when David Blunkett was Education Secretary, offer the best opportunity to schools to combat disaffection among today's young people towards government - and impress upon them that they can get involved in trying to change institutions for the better. Unfortunately, according to a report from Ofsted, the education standards watchdog, that does not appear to be happening. Provision for citizenship lessons in one in four schools is inadequate - the worst performance for any subject. The reasons for this lie in a lack of commitment by senior staff towards the subject and a feeling among teachers that they do not really know what is expected of them.

A-level parity at last for the IB brigade

Published: 28 September 2006

Nick Jackson discovers how an international qualification is shooting up the league tables

Christopher Price: Johnson has to be true to English traditions

Published: 28 September 2006

Suddenly the prospects for developing intelligent policy in education seem positive. The iron grip of Downing Street is weakening. In Alan Johnson we have an Education Secretary who is his own man and unlikely ever to become a creature of any prime minister; and, if Gordon Brown succeeds next year, Downing Street will have less legitimacy to dictate English education policy.

Parents need to fight this 'dumb-ass' culture

Published: 21 September 2006

Ruhy's class were a sparky bunch. Just a few weeks after arriving at secondary school in their new blazers and ties, they threw themselves into one of their first drama lessons. The theme was friendship, and virtually every one of their animated playlets featured a clever child being bullied by "cool" boys or girls.

Education Quandary

Published: 21 September 2006

'Will cooking lessons at school turn children off? And what should we try to teach them?'

It pays to play the generation game

Published: 21 September 2006

Grandparents can teach children valuable lessons in education and life. So use them, says Hilary Wilce
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