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Birmingham council has received documents which purport to show that radicals are using a dirty tricks campaign to oust non-Muslim staff from various schools.
Out of 17,434 nurseries inspected over 14 months, 33 per cent were judged to need improvement - up from 26 per cent the previous year.
The minister and his wife, Sarah Vine are said to be ‘delighted’ their daughter will go to the Grey Coat Hospital School in London.
Jeff Kinney, (pictured) who penned the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, pipped Dahl to first place in a top 10 list of the most-read children’s authors.
The adventures of Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog topped a survey in which parents were asked to name their favourite children’s books.
The decision, which provoked an outcry from health experts, comes less than a day after the World Health Organisation called for a sharp cut in children’s sugar intake.
The University of Bristol (pictured) has followed Leeds and Sheffield in dropping out of a top 100 table which ranks universities according to their reputation around the world.
Around 500,000 10 and 11-year-olds in England found out yesterday which secondary school had allocated them a place. Demand for places has soared this year, with often more than 1,000 vying for just 100 places.
According to the Department for Education, almost 9,000 teachers left before the statutory retirement age last year – the highest figure since 1997.
Truancy is running at record levels with almost 60,000 children skipping lessons every day. The number of truants under 12 is rising particularly sharply.
It is the first time that boys have fared better than girls at achieving the A* since the grade was introduced to reward the brightest students in 2010.
Schools are handing out record numbers of fixed-penalty notices as they battle to cut unauthorised absences.
One admissions appeals service said enquiries from parents whose child has been assigned to an unpopular or distant school after leaving an independent are up by half on last year.
Their grasp of numbers is so poor that they struggle to work out deductions on their pay slips or calculate change.
Frances King, head of the £30,000-a-year Roedean in Sussex, believes inverted snobbery made it 'hard work' to run fee-paying schools when they face intense national disapproval.
Several thousand youngsters from middle and higher-income homes have been put off applying by the prospect of paying up to £9,000-a-year in tuition charges on top of living costs.
The study, published by the Department for Education, analysed the impact of up to 40 factors on thousands of children and how they perform in exams.
The prestigious private school (pictured), whose alumni include David Cameron, the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry, will be the educational sponsor of Holyport College in Maidenhead.
Pupils will no longer be required to learn about the organisation in geography lessons while citizenship classes will merely specify studying the UK’s ‘relations with the rest of Europe’.
Only one in 20 can do maths intended for junior school age pupils, a study has found.
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