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U.K. Schools Secretary

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...

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...

Half of state schools flouting admissions rules

Half of state schools in England are flouting admissions rules leaving potentially thousands of children without places. The findings in a report by Sir Philip Hunter, the Chief Adjudicator of Schools, will be delivered to the...

Brown: families 'understand' reasons for £500 million bank bail-out

Families understand the importance of putting the banking system on a sure footing, Gordon Brown said today following the Government's £500 billion bank rescue. The Prime Minister said he would be travelling around the country...

Inquiry clears Cabinet couple over cash for second home

A clampdown on MPs' expenses has been proposed in the wake of an investigation which cleared husband and wife Cabinet ministers Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper of breaking House of Commons rules. John Lyon, the parliamentary...

New lessons will warn UK children about extremists

The British government says schools must teach young pupils about the dangers of getting drawn into violent extremism. Schools Secretary Ed Balls said Wednesday that 4.68 million pounds (US$8.15 million) have been allocated to...

Primary pupils at risk from extremists warns Ed Balls

Children aged under 11 are at risk of being radicalised, according to Ed Balls. By Graeme Paton, Education Editor The Schools Secretary suggested some primary school pupils were already displaying "early warning signs" of...

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