Education News
Student editor in hiding as religious satire backfires
Published: 12 February 2007
The editor of a Cambridge University college newspaper was in hiding last night after his attempt at religious satire backfired.
Teacher numbers rise by 36,000 over last decade
Published: 12 February 2007
Labour's decade in power has seen in increase of more than 36,000 teachers and almost 155,000 teaching support staff in English schools, it was revealed today.
Raided Islamic school closed down
Published: 10 February 2007
An independent Islamic school raided by police as part of an anti-terror operation last year has been closed by the Government, ministers announced today.
Teaching of languages and science at university suffers
Published: 09 February 2007
Evidence of a dramatic decline in the provision of key science subjects and modern languages at university was revealed in a report published yesterday.
Secondary schools setting own tests
Published: 08 February 2007
Secondary schools are testing 11-year-old students themselves because they lack confidence in national curriculum test results.
Degrees pay - unless you are a male arts graduate
Published: 07 February 2007
Question: You are male. You have two A-levels. What decision could you take about your future that your bank manager would least like to hear?
Meera supplants Milton in revamp of school reading list
Published: 06 February 2007
A new generation of writers has usurped some of literature's most venerable ancients as part of a revamp of the recommended reading lists for schools.
Multi-faith schools planned to combat segregation
Published: 06 February 2007
Plans for a new network of multi-faith academies to combat segregated schooling in the inner cities will be unveiled today.
Oscar Wilde is added to curriculum
Published: 05 February 2007
Oscar Wilde will be added to the list of authors to be studied by teenagers in secondary schools for the first time today.
Number of failing primary schools rises by a quarter
Published: 01 February 2007
A dramatic rise in the number of failing schools has been revealed in figures published by Ofsted, the education standards watchdog.
Brown to raise age limit on schooling
Published: 01 February 2007
Gordon Brown has paved the way for all youngsters to remain in full-time education until 18.
Bruno backs boxing's return to London schools
Published: 31 January 2007
Boxing is making a successful comeback to Britain's schools after a 40-year absence, according to a group of London headmasters who have reintroduced the sport to their school curriculum.
Parents spend third of wages on nursery, says study
Published: 30 January 2007
Parents with young children spend more than one-third of the average salary on nursery school, according to research.
The Big Question: Are children set too much homework, and does it hinder their education?
Published: 30 January 2007
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High expulsion rates 'massage' academies' results
Published: 29 January 2007
Ministers privately support the exclusion of large numbers of "challenging" pupils by Tony Blair's flagship academies, a senior government official has revealed.
Student-teacher relationships: Don't stand so close to me
Published: 28 January 2007
White students 'do better'
Published: 27 January 2007
Black and Chinese students are less likely to get top university degrees than their white contemporaries, a government report has found.
The Amazonian teaching British pupils to be green
Published: 27 January 2007
"I'm not an environmentalist, I'm not a teacher, I'm not a politician," Juan Kunchiky begins. "I'm just a person that is so concerned about what is happening to the rainforest and - obviously - the people who live in the rainforests in Ecuador."
Pupils to learn 'Britishness' in history
Published: 26 January 2007
History teaching is to be radically overhauled to give teenagers a better understanding of "Britishness". Under the plans revealed yesterday, pupils will be expected to concentrate more on the social history of the UK - often neglected in the drive by traditionalists to focus on topics such as the Tudors and the Stuarts.
Plan to teach pupils 'British values'
Published: 25 January 2007
Ministers will unveil plans today to teach teenagers core "British values" amid fears that schools are failing to convey a sense of national identity.
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.
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