Education News
Balls hints at scrapping of SATs tests
Softened stance not enough for teaching unions to call off boycott threat
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Evolution classes for primary pupils
Friday, 20 November 2009
Children at primary school are to be given compulsory lessons on evolution for the first time under a shake-up of the curriculum unveiled yesterday.
Poor white boys 'falling further behind'
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Poor white boys are falling further behind their classmates in English and maths, official figures showed today.
Sats for 11-year-olds may eventually go, says Balls
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Ed Balls today indicated Standard Assessment Tests (Sats) for 11-year-olds could be scrapped in the future as he faced the looming threat of a union boycott of next year's tests.
UK 'should take leaf out of Harvard's book'
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Oxbridge urged to follow US university's progressive admissions policy
Now they'll swing, swing together at Eton
Thursday, 19 November 2009
College to give its neighbouring state school access to the lake that inspired the boating song
Top school expels pupils over drugs
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Students were discovered with cannabis on school grounds after concerned pupils alerted teachers.
Schools 'ignoring needs of brightest pupils'
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Richard Garner: Leading state school head said colleagues spent too much time trying to convert D grades into C grades at GCSE.
'You can be beautiful and still be a feminist'
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Girls’ school leader defends pupils who want to look attractive.
Starting at 22, Britons have talent
Monday, 16 November 2009
Britons have got talent – it just doesn’t emerge until they are 22, says a report published today.
Education officials spent £10m on first-class fares
Monday, 16 November 2009
Education officials have run up a £10m bill for the taxpayer from first-class rail travel over the last three years. Civil servants bought an estimated 60,000 first-class tickets between 2006 and 2009. The scale of the spending – equivalent to just over 300 teachers' salaries or four new primary schools – provoked anger among opposition MPs and parents' leaders.
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