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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
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 who prevent their estranged spouses from seeing their children will have to carry out community service.
05 Dec 2008
Behaviour among middle-class children is deteriorating as the recession puts a strain on family life, it is claimed.
05 Dec 2008
Children are being inspired to learn a musical instrument after playing music-based computer games.
05 Dec 2008
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
Plans to place thousands more teenagers on apprenticeships may be scuppered by the credit crisis, according to MPs.
04 Dec 2008
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
English universities are admitting fewer students from poor homes than the rest of the UK, according to research.
04 Dec 2008
Faith schools should be banned from selecting pupils by religion because they are too "insular", according to a report.
04 Dec 2008
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
Highs and lows of troubled singer are part of a university course.
04 Dec 2008
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
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University courses are under threat amid fears lucrative foreign students will be priced out of the UK by the economic crisis.
03 Dec 2008
Plans to hold a university beauty contest branded misogynistic.
04 Dec 2008
A schoolgirl won a cash pay-out after slipping on a carrot at school, sparking fresh fears over the compensation culture.
03 Dec 2008
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
An increase in Nazi history programmes on television is turning children against the study of German at school, experts said.
03 Dec 2008
A junior school has cancelled its Christmas performances because they got in the way of the Muslim children celebrating Eid.
04 Dec 2008
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
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
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
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
Wendy Miller visits a class that makes a happy song and dance about learning a new language
02 Dec 2008
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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