Education News
The Big Question: Who was Rudolf Steiner and what were his revolutionary teaching ideas?
Published: 24 January 2007
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School poll casts doubt on plans to raise leaving age
Published: 23 January 2007
Thousands of teenage drop-outs return to school or college within a year - realising they have made a mistake in quitting full-time education at 16, says research published today.
Top scientist criticises climate-change teaching
Published: 22 January 2007
The teaching of climate change and global warming in schools is dogged by "omission, simplification and misrepresentation", leading scientists have claimed.
Schools must teach British values to beat 'Big Brother'-style bigotry, says minister
Published: 21 January 2007
All teenagers should be taught core "British values" to combat the "ignorance and bigotry" shown on Celebrity Big Brother last week, the Secretary of State for Education, Alan Johnson, said last night.
Call for end to selective education as 'grammar school areas' fail
Published: 20 January 2007
Parents' leaders are to call for an end to selective education in the wake of exam results showing most of the worst performing schools are in shire counties that have kept grammar schools. They will meet the Schools minister, Jim Knight, next month to demand that the country's 164 grammar schools are abolished.
'Overburdened' headteachers warn of recruitment crisis
Published: 19 January 2007
Headteachers delivered a "hands off our schools" ultimatum to the Government yesterday, claiming that a welter of ministerial initiatives had put off potential recruits for headships.
Fees hit student numbers
Published: 19 January 2007
Nearly 15,000 fewer students enrolled at universities last autumn - the first year of top-up fees.
The Big Question: What effect have top-up fees had, and are they likely to keep rising?
Published: 19 January 2007
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Union slams move for chief executives as school heads
Published: 18 January 2007
Business executives will be brought in to run state schools under a plan recommended by in government inquiry to be published later today.
Goodall to lead £10m singing revival in schools
Published: 17 January 2007
The composer and television presenter Howard Goodall has been appointed by the Government to mastermind a £10m boost to music education in primary schools.
£10m campaign to encourage children to sing
Published: 16 January 2007
Ministers were today launching a £10 million national campaign to encourage primary school children and their teachers to sing more often.
Children's test results 'helped by bedtime stories'
Published: 15 January 2007
Too many parents stop reading bedtime stories to their children once they start school, according to a report to be published today.
Schools to vote on children's favourite songs
Published: 14 January 2007
Primary school classrooms will soon be alive again with the sound of music.
Pupils struggle to master basic maths and English
Published: 11 January 2007
Half a million pupils are taught in secondary schools where an astonishing three out of four pupils struggle to master the basics, new-style exam league tables reveal today.
Green values help academy top new league table
Published: 11 January 2007
A school which offers its pupils a green-focused education has won plaudits for having the best teaching standards in the country.
Grammars cast shadow over the 'worst performer'
Published: 11 January 2007
The first sentence of the inspectors' report on Temple - the school which comes bottom of today's new-style exam league table highlighting performance in maths and English - might come as a surprise.
Why top schools come bottom
Published: 11 January 2007
A glance at the foot of the new-style league tables highlighting performance in maths and English will show some surprising names at the bottom - Harrow, Winchester and Rugby for a start.
Teachers say they cannot cope with needs of dyslexic children
Published: 10 January 2007
The majority of state school teachers lack confidence in educating dyslexic pupils, a survey for Britain's biggest teaching union shows.
Kelly admits sending son to private special-needs school
Published: 09 January 2007
Former Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has admitted her son, who suffers from learning difficulties, is being privately educated.
Teachers to decide when pupils should sit tests
Published: 09 January 2007
Bright children will sit more than twice as many national curriculum tests during their time at school under a radical government plan.
Blair 'backs parental choice' amid private school row
Published: 08 January 2007
Tony Blair has intervened over the former Education Secretary Ruth Kelly's decision to send her child to a £15,000-a-year private school for pupils with learning difficulties.
Bright pupils to take tests early under national curriculum reform
Published: 08 January 2007
Bright pupils will be fast-tracked so that they can take their national curriculum tests and exams early under a new government blueprint to be published today.
Labour minister criticised for sending child to private school
Published: 08 January 2007
A cabinet minister who took their child out of the state education system in favour of a private school for children with learning difficulties has been angrily criticised by Labour MPs.
New league table shows poor English and maths results
Published: 05 January 2007
A new-style government exam league table next week will show a marked reduction in the number of teenagers obtaining five A* to C grade GCSE passes.
Thousands fail to progress in 'three Rs' after seven
Published: 04 January 2007
Thousands of children get "stuck" at school, making little or no improvement in the three Rs after the age of seven, a government inquiry shows.
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