Education News

Apprentice teacher scheme attacked

Teenagers with just a handful of GCSE passes are to be recruited to secondary schools to work as teaching assistants.

Inside Education News

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.