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Apprentice teacher scheme attacked
Teenagers with just a handful of GCSE passes are to be recruited to secondary schools to work as teaching assistants.
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Cost of 'free' education rises above £10,000
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
The cost of a free state school education has risen to more than £10,000 for the first time, a survey shows. Parents' contributions to secondary schools average £1,195.47 a year.
Half of top universities' students 'from better-off families'
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Students from white middle-class families still dominate places at top universities, research revealed today.
Closing schools sends out 'wrong message'
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Closing schools because of snow is teaching children a bad lesson, a parents' group warned today.
Children free to learn about life outside
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Children around Britain were given the day off, with many heading straight out into the snow to play.
And the lesson for tomorrow: more sledging
Monday, 2 February 2009
...AND THE LESSON FOR TOMORROW IS SLEDGINGChildren across Britain were tonight anticipating another day off school as the snow continued to fall.
My academies may be failing, admits chief
Monday, 2 February 2009
Head of Christian charity says meeting national targets for GCSEs 'not guaranteed'
Schools urged to teach good parenting skills
Monday, 2 February 2009
All children should be taught good parenting in school, the Church of England's Children's Society said in the most far-reaching inquiry into childhood in the UK.
'It was all easy' – teenage genius takes 23 A-levels
Saturday, 31 January 2009
Student earns Cambridge place after getting A grades in 21 exams.
It's time to raise bar for top-grade A-levels, exams watchdog says
Saturday, 31 January 2009
Highest level would be more difficult to achieve under regulator's proposal
Defiant, the superhead expelled from education
Saturday, 31 January 2009
Dame Jean Else put her sister on her school's payroll – but that's not the reason she lost her job, she tells Richard Garner
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