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Middle-classes 'being priced out of boarding schools'
Thousands of middle-class professionals have been being priced out of private boarding schools after fees rocketed five-fold in a generation, researchers claimed today.
22 Jan 2011
If teenagers need cash, get a Saturday job
A good education should be incentive enough to stay at school. Bribes, like the Education Maintenance Allowance, teach the wrong lesson to young people, says Allison Pearson.
21 Jan 2011
University vice-chancellors' pay rises by 20pc as student fees triple
Pay packets rocketed just as institutions lobbied for a huge rise in student tuition fees, The Telegraph can reveal.
21 Jan 2011
Our children must be made to think harder
Telegraph View: It is painfully obvious that Britain no longer punches above its weight in the educational marketplace.
21 Jan 2011
David Cameron's judgment over Andy Coulson was deeply flawed
Why did the Prime Minister insist on having this deeply compromised man in the heart of Number 10, ask Simon Heffer.
21 Jan 2011
Children given 'chemical cosh' drugs for shyness
Mind-altering drugs prescribed for shyness and mild social anxiety.
21 Jan 2011
Ofsted: white boys 'held back by low expectations'
White working-class boys are falling behind their classmates after being let down by unambitious teachers, according to the education watchdog.
21 Jan 2011
Black Swan: pushy parents? To a pointe
Does ballet attract too many over-pushy parents, asks Judith Woods.
21 Jan 2011
Text messaging 'improves children's spelling skills'
Mobile phone text messaging can boost children’s spelling skills, according to new research.
20 Jan 2011
Old school teaching better for retaining knowledge
Old-fashioned teaching exercises like reciting times tables and verb conjugations are better than trendy new teaching methods, a study suggests.
20 Jan 2011
Write it don't type it if you want knowledge to stick
Children and students who write by hand learn better than those who type, a study shows.
20 Jan 2011
Gove outlines changes to national curriculum
Education Secretary Michael Gove says British schools are falling behind other countries and the national curriculum needs rewriting.
20 Jan 2011
National curriculum review: compulsory subjects 'could be axed'
Compulsory lessons in subjects such as citizenship, IT, music and design and technology could be axed under a sweeping review of the national curriculum, it emerged today.
20 Jan 2011
Headmaster's voice: A levels versus International Baccalaureate
Prep-school head turned education consultant Peter Dix answers your questions
20 Jan 2011
Back to school for the bankers
A new banking MBA could benefit bankers and the rest of us, says Max Davidson.
20 Jan 2011
Your View: What would you put in the national curriculum?
The government has announced the biggest shake-up of the national curriculum for more than 20 years. What would you put in the national curriculum?
20 Jan 2011
Obesity warning as quarter of children lead isolated lives
Almost a quarter of children never play outside because of bad weather, hectic lifestyles and irrational fears over accidents and abduction, according to research.
20 Jan 2011
How the national curriculum has evolved
Here are some of the key dates in the history of the national curriculum since it was launched in 1988.
20 Jan 2011
Schools get back to kings, queens and Dickens
Children expected to read great works of literature and master mental arithmetic under biggest shake-up for 20 years.
20 Jan 2011
School science 'undermined by poor teachers and laboratories', say MPs
Hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren are failing to study science to a high standard after being turned off the subject by poor teachers and unsafe laboratories, according to MPs.
20 Jan 2011
Michael Gove: children failed by Labour's reforms
When the tide goes out, Warren Buffet once argued, you see who’s been swimming naked. The world’s wisest investor was reflecting on the banking crisis.
20 Jan 2011
Teachers condemn 'elitist' curriculum reforms
Coalition plans for a shake-up of the national curriculum risk plunging schools back into the 1950s, teachers’ leaders warned today.
20 Jan 2011
Your View: Should the Educational Maintenance Allowance be scrapped?
Does EMA work? Do you think EMA provides value for tax payers?
19 Jan 2011
Students to protest over axed EMA allowance
Students across the country are taking part in a day of action against the Government's controversial plans to axe the EMA grant.
19 Jan 2011
Government plan to teach parents how to cuddle babies
Mothers should be taught how to cuddle and talk to their babies as part of a major Government drive to stop children descending into a life of crime as they grow up.
19 Jan 2011
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