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A-level English too easy, says exam board

Saturday, 24 September 2011

An examination board has come under fire for making its A-level English course too easy.

'Glastonbury University' scam uncovered

Saturday, 24 September 2011

A scam based on a fictitious university which aimed to rip off foreign students has been uncovered by trading standards officers.

Teacher banned over photo theft

Saturday, 24 September 2011

A teacher who admitted stealing pictures from Facebook to make her ex-boyfriend think they had a baby has been banned from working in the classroom for two years.

Students end stage sit-in over fees

Friday, 23 September 2011

A group of students protesting against Scotland's leading arts academy's decision to charge fees of �9,000 to students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland ended their sit-in this afternoon.

Look out Liam – school that made Amy and Adele comes to Manchester

Friday, 23 September 2011

Adam Sherwin: Aspiring musicians will study how to become the next Morrissey or Liam Gallagher when a new Brit School for the performing arts opens in Manchester.

Lecturers asked to put up students in university digs crisis

Friday, 23 September 2011

At the University of Lincoln, 150 students are still sleeping in portable cabins in a temporary 'student village', while a further 50 are being housed in a local hotel

Andreas Schleicher: 'Too many schools are just coasting'

Thursday, 22 September 2011

Governments wait with baited breath for Andreas Schleicher's annual analysis of the world's education systems. Richard Garner finds out what lessons he has for Britain's schools this year

Class hits classrooms

Thursday, 22 September 2011

Clive Bloom recounts the nationwide wave of pupil walk-outs that struck fear into the heart of the establishment 100 years ago

Universities on measles alert as students return

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Universities are preparing for an outbreak of measles as students start their degree courses.

Scrap tuition fees, says party president as he refuses to toe line

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Nigel Morris: Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat president, called for the Coalition's controversial plans to bring in university tuition fees to be torn up.

'Boy had gun' near school

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

A teenage boy has been arrested after a "firearm incident" outside a secondary school. He was detained by armed police at the school in Wickford, Essex.

Grayling gets first intake

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

The first two students have been accepted at Professor A C Grayling's £18,000-a-year private university for the humanities in London.

Language teaching 'deplorable'

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Language teaching and learning in England is "deplorable" and declining drastically, a senior Church of England bishop has warned.

Reading scheme axed in cuts to school spending

Monday, 19 September 2011

Richard Garner: A pioneering project which has switched thousands of struggling pupils on to reading is being axed in primary schools.

Private schools may shut as parents turn to state sector

Sunday, 18 September 2011

Richard Garner: Holidays are cancelled and second homes sold to pay fees at institutions with uncertain futures.

Reading test for five-year-olds will include 'made-up words'

Saturday, 17 September 2011

Richard Garner: All pupils aged five and six will be given a compulsory reading test next June to help schools identify children who are struggling to cope in class.

Inquiry clears exam boards over errors

Saturday, 17 September 2011

The series of blunders that marred this year's A-level and GCSE exams were "unusual" and did not show an overall failure of the system, an inquiry by the exam boards found yesterday.