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Fresh fears about children accessing porn | 04 April 2013
Every single 14-year-old boy across a local authority area accessed pornography, warns deputy children's commissioner

Hospitals could house new free schools | 03 April 2013
Empty spaces in hospitals could be used to find places for free school pupils, according to reports

Schools raise the teacher training bar | 22 March 2013
Small clusters of schools are providing better training for new teachers than higher education institutions, according to Ofsted.

Gove accuses profs of ''bad academia'' | 22 March 2013
And Ofsted head Sir Michael Wilshaw told the professors they needed to get out of their ivory towers

People with learning disability die earlier | 20 March 2013
Study shows 22 per cent of people with learning disabilities were under the age of 50 when they died

Difficult schools 'career suicide' for heads | 18 March 2013
Headteachers are reluctant to work in challenging schools and are not given enough time to turn them around

Target funding for schools better – NAO | 15 March 2013
There are signs of real strain, with 256,000 new places still needed by 2014/15, says report

One in 10 young people unable to send their CV online | 12 March 2013
Thousands of young people in the UK could be at a disadvantage in their careers due to a lack of basic IT skills, says Prince's Trust

Universities risk closure from online 'avalanche' | 11 March 2013
Universities cannot afford to stand still against growing competition and the rise of massive open online courses, warns former Blair adviser

The choice: apprenticeship or university | 11 March 2013
Apprenticeships should become the new norm for school leavers who don't or can't go to university, says PM

Top heads should get substantial pay rise | 07 March 2013
The best headteachers should have their exceptional performance rewarded with substantial pay rises

'National curriculum will prepare children for high tech roles' | 06 March 2013
The new national curriculum will give schools a better chance of preparing young people for high tech jobs in the UK, says minister

Focus on child safeguarding is under fire | 05 March 2013
Plans to challenge local authority performance and take more youngsters into care have been criticised

Technology can improve school pupil attention but harm their health, say ministers | 26 February 2013
Classroom technology can help teachers keep the attention of their pupils. But sustained use of computers can also be detrimental to youngsters

Schools need to get their priorities right | 25 February 2013
Governors must focus on the big issues, such as quality of teaching and pupil progress, says Ofsted head

Top maths pupils falling way behind at 16 | 22 February 2013
The best maths pupils in England fall behind those in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, Scotland, Slovenia and Norway

Scottish students say no to independence | 22 February 2013
But just 13 per cent of students at a Scottish university took part in a mock referendum on independence

Ceop and Microsoft make child online safety support easier to access | 21 February 2013
The government's child protection body has been working with Microsoft to make it easier to report suspicious activity

Over-60s are urged to retrain at university | 21 February 2013
They would be more likely to keep working – and therefore not be a burden on the taxpayer, says Willetts

English schools lack learning critical WiFi | 20 February 2013
Three quarters of schools across England do not have the necessary standard of WiFi to deliver '21st Century learning'