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An education system that produces record-breaking GCSE and A-level results year after year ought to instil pride both in children and parents. And yet last month the Government that has presided over this incredible rise in...
Stonily quiet at the back of a big, blank office on a weird, wind-whipped Essex trading estate, Sir Alan Sugar — ’skewze me, Lord Sugar — looks small, angry and alone. The businessman’s face, normally the rough beige of a...
‘Al Gore, who art in thy fully offset private jet; Nobel-prized be thy name; thy carbon-free kingdom come; on planet Earth (otherwise known as Gaia) as it should be after Copenhagen; give us this day our daily meat-free diet;...
Every child in England will have their personal details stored on a controversial database despite fears over security and privacy. They say the long-delayed £224 project will make England’s 11million young people safer by...
Interestingly when I came to check out the CES document for further fisking-it has vanished from their site. They are taking some serious heat from parents at the moment because they are colluding with Ed Balls plans for sex ed...
Ed Balls' announcement on Thursday that personal finance lessons will become compulsory for kids from 2011 should raise a cheer in homes across the country. The Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families said...
Even if Blair and Brown are fading. Even if the party loses the next election, their New Labour project, which was the key to its phenomenal electoral success for more than a decade, will survive. When Brown and Blair finally...
All secondary schools should have a teacher who specialises in gipsy pupils, says a Government-funded report. The teacher should attend traveller events to try to understand their culture and organise days to celebrate key...
Trust urged to improve standards at existing 17 schools and two due to open in 2010 The government has banned the largest sponsor of academies from taking on new schools until it dramatically improve the ones it already runs,...
Ed Balls sacks school's governing body after senior teachers allegedly paid themselves £1m in bonuses A headteacher who was knighted for services to education has resigned following claims that he and his senior colleagues...
