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Ofsted admits failings over Baby P

Baby P - Head of Ofsted Christine Gilbert admits failings over death of Baby P

The head of Ofsted has admitted that her organisation is partly responsible for the failings which led to the death of Baby P.

06 Dec 2008

'Scrap Sats tests', Ed Balls to be told

Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, will come under fresh pressure to scrap Sats tests for 11-year-olds next week as a landmark review of primary education is published.

05 Dec 2008

Parents blocking estranged spouses to be punished

Parents who prevent their estranged spouses from seeing their children will have to carry out community service.

05 Dec 2008

Credit crisis 'fuels classroom tension'

Behaviour among middle-class children is deteriorating as the recession puts a strain on family life, it is claimed.

05 Dec 2008

Computer games inspire children to learn musical instruments

Still from Guitar Hero III: Computer games inspire children to learn musical instruments

Children are being inspired to learn a musical instrument after playing music-based computer games.

05 Dec 2008

Winter vomiting bug hits

Hospitals and schools have been hit by the winter vomiting virus as figures show the norovirus has taken hold across the UK.

05 Dec 2008

Credit crunch threatens apprenticeships for teenagers, warns MPs

Plans to place thousands more teenagers on apprenticeships may be scuppered by the credit crisis, according to MPs.

04 Dec 2008

New code for schools bans 'social selection'

Schools banned from examining children's birth certificates or photographs under rules designed to stop middle-class pupils dominating places at the best comprehensives.

05 Dec 2008

Fewer poor students attend university in England, says report

English universities are admitting fewer students from poor homes than the rest of the UK, according to research.

04 Dec 2008

Faith schools 'should face admissions curb'

Faith schools should be banned from selecting pupils by religion because they are too "insular", according to a report.

04 Dec 2008

'Incompetent' primary school teacher banned from teaching

A primary school teacher has been banned from teaching at any school in the UK after she became the first in Scotland to be struck off for incompetence.

04 Dec 2008

Studying Amy Winehouse

Highs and lows of troubled singer are part of a university course.

04 Dec 2008

The debauched lives of Victorian Cambridge students

Modern students are known for their heavy drinking and sexual exploits, but a Cambridge University diary which has been uncovered suggests that Victorian students were even more debauched.

03 Dec 2008

Vicky Tuck column

Vicky Tuck is president of the Girls' Schools Association

Educating the digital natives

This article is only 750 words long but will you read it to the end?

GCSE results: pupils celebrate

GCSE results 2008 in full

Broken down by grade, subject, gender and number who sat them.

Full A-level results

A-level results 2008 in full

This year's A-level results broken down by subject and gender.

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university courses at risk from credit crisis

University courses are under threat amid fears lucrative foreign students will be priced out of the UK by the economic crisis.

03 Dec 2008

Miss University contest row

Keelin Gavaghan, who has been voted Miss LSE, will take part in the Miss University London beauty contest

Plans to hold a university beauty contest branded misogynistic.

04 Dec 2008

Schoolgirl handed £200 compensation for slipping on carrot

A schoolgirl won a cash pay-out after slipping on a carrot at school, sparking fresh fears over the compensation culture.

03 Dec 2008

Publisher demands return of free books over library closure

A leading publisher is demanding the return of free children's books after a school announced it was closing its library in favour of "virtual learning".

03 Dec 2008

Nazi history programmes 'fuelling decline in German lessons'

An increase in Nazi history programmes on television is turning children against the study of German at school, experts said.

03 Dec 2008

School cancels Christmas nativity in favour of Muslim Eid celebrations

A junior school has cancelled its Christmas performances because they got in the way of the Muslim children celebrating Eid.

04 Dec 2008

Boy dies after being hit with hockey ball

A 12 year old boy has died after he was hit on the head with a hockey ball at a school match.

03 Dec 2008

Forecasters warn of more snow

Children playing on sled - snow closes 200 schools

Hundreds of schools have been closed after a band of wintry weather swept into Britain with forecasters warning of up to eight inches of snow later this week.

02 Dec 2008

More students dragged into grants blunder

The scale of the students grant fiasco escalated yesterday as it emerged 130,000 teenagers will be hit by a Government mix-up.

02 Dec 2008

Teens to sit Sats despite axing of compulsory test

Almost three quarters of schools are preparing to subject teenagers to Sats tests next year, even though the controversial exams are no longer compulsory.

02 Dec 2008

French is a game for tiny têtes

Wendy Miller visits a class that makes a happy song and dance about learning a new language

02 Dec 2008

Pushy parents spend £600 extra lessons for toddlers

Pushy parents are sending their toddlers to as many as six organised classes a week on top of nursery or pre-school, according to a new report.

02 Dec 2008

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