What is going wrong for the Prime Minister? His personal standing with the electorate has fallen precipitously, according to opinion polls. I found a clue to what may be doing the damage in one of the pictures of world leaders at the Camp David summit meeting last weekend. They had taken time out to watch the Chelsea v Bayern Munich football match.

Business leaders questioned the value of GCSEs today.

Last week, it was the Education Secretary, Michael Gove.

Teachers' misconceptions may be holding bright students back, claims charity

The majority of the first students accepted at a new university set up by a group of leading academics are from private schools, it was revealed today.

The terrorist mastermind of 9/11 is replaced by a fugitive teacher on the FBI's list of public enemies

Two of the UK's biggest teaching unions were today on a collision course with the Government after voting for further industrial action, including strikes, over pensions, pay and job losses.

As 007 swaps his usual tipple for lager in the forthcoming 'Skyfall', Geoffrey Macnab looks at what switching to beer means for the secret agent

Nothing beats that moment of transition from winter to spring: waking up to curtain-filtered sunshine and the first time you leave your coat behind. It's breathing in the smell of foliage and flowers rather than air so cold it sears the back of your nose. It's walking because you want to, not just when you have to. And it's eating rowdily and outside, enjoying the bacchanalia that good weather affords instead of slurping like hunched medieval kings in the day-long gloaming, wiping your hands on your dressing-gown.

George Osborne's Budget – a complex set of financial imperatives painstakingly designed to take sickly Britain Plc a tiny, faltering step down to the road to solvency – has opened another bout of class warfare. According to critics, a gang of public school toffs have looked after their mates, while pensioners and the lower orders have been treated with contempt. Swingeing taxes have been imposed on stuff the working class loves – sausage rolls, fruit machines, cheap booze and fags – while top earners get a tax break. A gross simplification, but surely one of the reasons the country is stuck in the doldrums, with the threat of a "double dip" recession, is that we see everything in terms of class.

Hilary Wilce sees an innovative scheme in action at a London comprehensive

After nine months of bizarre rule, Rangers fans are entitled to ask where the optimism has gone