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Most secondary schools believe the SATs are not an accurate reflection of pupils' abilities because of the amount of teaching to the tests that goes on

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.

The 500-year-old Trinity College, part of Cambridge University

UK 'should take leaf out of Harvard's book'

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Oxbridge urged to follow US university's progressive admissions policy

An Eton eight salute 'Eton, Queen and Country' at the school's annual Fourth of June prize day celebrations

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.

Feminists protest against the 2009 Miss England

'You can be beautiful and still be a feminist'

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Girls’ school leader defends pupils who want to look attractive.

Young Britain's Got Talent fans have got a little while left until they find their niche in life, one study suggests

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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