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'Ghost' free school has no pupils

Fear over reading levels among poor
More children 'not toilet trained' by school age
Headteachers fear exodus after inspector's attack
Every pupil should read Dickens, says minister... (but he's too hard, says the author's biographer)
Top universities warned over places for 'disadvantaged' students
Don't reward teachers indiscriminately says Ofsted head
Sixth-form teachers to go on strike
Government shake-up for vocational qualifications
Teenagers turn their backs on a university education
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Chalk Talk: Yee hah! The cowboy spirit that's driving our headteachers

It seems the trend of headteachers likening themselves to famous American cowboys is continuing.
How to find the perfect place for your child
Prepared for a bright future
How has the City Academy in Norwich gone from struggling school to class act?
Chalk Talk: You name it, Michael Gove has found a way to measure it
Chalk Talk: For the last time - my teaching union is bigger than yours
Wanted: one school, must be prepared to travel
Chalk Talk: It's best to check your spelling before making war on failing schools
Nasuwt: 'We can win the hearts and minds of parents'
Chalk Talk: How to stop exam cheats – keep examiners and teachers apart
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Elocution lessons: Who wants to speak the Queen's English?

We might like to think we live in a classless society, yet increasing numbers of adults are signing up for lessons in elocution. Jeremy Sutcliffe finds out why they're doing it.
Education: The age of uncertainty
Proposed new immigration laws could deprive colleges of overseas students they depend on
A-level results: Subject by subject
A-level results: Sixth form colleges
A-level results: Comprehensive school results
A-level results: Grammar school results
How college lecturers are keeping up by training one another at work
Online degrees: A model worth emulating or a plan that risks creating a two-tier system?
Short business courses - It's amazing how much can happen in three days
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Ministers have been anxious to crack down on immigration and issued fewer waivers for students

Universities set to lose £5.6bn as overseas applications plummet

Rise in tuition fees a key factor in growing financial threat as UK becomes a 'no-go zone'
Bad behaviour that's all in a good cause: Students are carrying on the RAG tradition
University places to be cut by 15,000
Student sends Oxford University rejection letter for 'taking itself too seriously'
Chalk Talk: Students can't pay their course fees? Then let's have a whip-round
A clearer picture of foreign study
Professor Gerald Pillay: 'England needs places like this'
Salford University's digital campus: 'This is not a place you come to read books'
Baroness Blackstone: 'I want a world-class system of higher education'
Education cuts 'threaten Oxford's global prestige'
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