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U.K. Department for Children, Schools and Families

Government defends its progress on diplomas

Schools secretary and schools minister reveal plans to develop the new qualifications and reject claims that the academies programme will lose momentum Only 12,000 pupils started the government's flagship diploma qualification...

Tories demand pupil grant inquiry

Students on EMA can get up to £30 a week An independent inquiry must be held into the problems hitting this year's pupil allowances, the Tories have said. Several weeks after term began many thousands of teenagers in England...

Labour's private school heroes

Jonathan Calder looks down with bafflement from the top of the Stiperstones at the Labour Party's attitude to education I shall never understand the Labour view on education. You think they would be proud to have a minister who...

Safer Children in a Digital World

The Council is made up from a cross section of the mobile and internet industry and child protection organisations. Chaired by Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families and Jacqui Smith, Home Secretary,...

Catherine Bennett: So teachers must be spies - now that really is a bit extreme

Where are school staff to learn their anti-terrorist techniques? Turn to the pages of a John le Carré novel Leaving aside the constraints of the national curriculum, there seems no reason why our teachers should not double as...

Pay attention to this, Gordon!

'There's an easy way for the Cabinet to get rid of Gordon Brown,' BBC Question Time's David Dimbleby declared at a supper for panellists, including Cabinet Minister Geoff Hoon. Gordon Brown: It should be easy to get rid of him,...

Richard Reeves: A crisis of capitalisation – not a crisis of capitalism

The current financial crisis gives some socialists more than mere schadenfreude at the humiliation of former Masters of the Universe in the City and on Wall Street. At the Labour Party conference, Ed Balls said that those who...

Unity City Academy future is in doubt

Oct 10 2008 by Joanna Desira, Evening Gazette THE future of a Teesside academy school was thrown into doubt today after it was revealed a private sponsor is in talks to withdraw its backing. Bosses at Unity City Academy moved...

Tim Hastie-Smith quits in row over teacher who filmed pupil having sex

The head of a highly regarded independent school has stood down from leading a new academy after falling out with its Christian sponsor. The Rev Tim Hastie-Smith, chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference,...

Schools to be judged on how they boost wellbeing

New schools minister launches consultation on how to assess pupils' contentment Focus shifts to emotional health Photograph: Christopher Thomond The new children's minister, Baroness Delyth Morgan, has proposed that all schools...

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