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University accused of £36m student scam
Lucy Hodges and Richard Garner: Governors urged to quit after college falsely claimed for thousands of undergraduates.
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Setting pupils harms school performance
Monday, 23 November 2009
A return to setting and streaming in state schools may have harmed those it was most supposed to have helped – the pupils, says a report out today.
Balls hints at scrapping of SATs tests
Friday, 20 November 2009
Softened stance not enough for teaching unions to call off boycott threat
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.
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