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The government has allocated £32 million to kick start the development of the Sherford new town in Devon, which will include four new schools....
Posted on 22/05/2013 - [Read More...]
Parents in Wales whose children are regular truants will be issued with fixed penalty notices of £60, which will double if they do not pay these fines within 28 days....
Posted on 21/05/2013 - [Read More...]
Estyn has again rated Blaenau Gwent's education provision as unsatisfactory due to issues around attainment and flaws in its school improvement initiatives....
Posted on 20/05/2013 - [Read More...]
A new survey of parents in Norfolk found that 73 per cent of respondents believe their children are receiving a good standard of education....
Posted on 17/05/2013 - [Read More...]
A new survey has found that schools are spending a significant share of pupil premium funding on one-to-one tuition and additional teachers and teaching assistants....
Posted on 16/05/2013 - [Read More...]
This week, 600,000 11-year olds will sit the new spelling, grammar and punctuation test, which education minister Liz Truss believes will help to raise standards....
Posted on 15/05/2013 - [Read More...]
Michael Gove has said that while some future cuts could be made from the education budget, he wants funding for the pupil premium programme to remain intact....
Posted on 14/05/2013 - [Read More...]
The IFS has found that children born towards the end of the academic year tend to be at a disadvantage and wants their test scores to be amended to reflect this....
Posted on 14/05/2013 - [Read More...]
Exam board owner Cambridge Assessments has advocated that GCSE papers be given numerical scores rather than the "arbitrary categories" of grades....
Posted on 10/05/2013 - [Read More...]
A new report has claimed that only 70 per cent of secondary schools and 46 per cent of primaries have access to the essential equipment required to teach science....
Posted on 09/05/2013 - [Read More...]
DfE figures show that the number of teachers employed in publically funded schools in England rose by 2.6 per cent from November 2011 to 442,000 in November 2012....
Posted on 07/05/2013 - [Read More...]
A panel of experts has said that pupils in the country should learn more about Wales' history, rather than just an Anglo-centric history of Britain....
Posted on 01/05/2013 - [Read More...]
The past month has seen much discussion as to how schools will deal with anticipated escalation in demand for places, particularly in the London area....
Posted on 30/04/2013 - [Read More...]
Ofqual is planning to reduce the proportion of English GCSE grades accounted for by speaking and listening assessments from 20 per cent to zero per cent....
Posted on 30/04/2013 - [Read More...]
Boris Johnson has called on Harrow's schools to sign up to the £600,000 Healthy Schools London initiative....
Posted on 29/04/2013 - [Read More...]