Education - ARCHIVE NEWS

Rural community benefits from £460k government broadband cash | 10 January 2013
Children in one of Britain's rural communities will now find it easier to do their homework online, with other benefits expected

Government to tackle cyber 'dark side' in the classroom | 03 January 2013
The government is to launch a new campaign designed to improve cyber awareness

Universities plan won't help poor kids | 03 January 2013
The government's early intervention adviser has described David Willetts' plan to boost numbers of white working class boys at university as

NUT: Teacher morale is dangerously low | 02 January 2013
It's time the PM realised Education Secretary Gove has lost the respect of the profession, says union

School improvement cash was spent on academies | 20 December 2012
Almost £300m originally intended to tackle failing secondary schools has been diverted to academies

'Government plans pose risk to data on schoolchildren' | 14 December 2012
A government proposal to open access to the National Pupil Database carries an 'unacceptable risk', warns the ODI

UK universities to offer courses online for free | 14 December 2012
Top universities across the UK are to offer free access to thousands of courses online through a new Open University company

Technology tackles unauthorised school absences | 11 December 2012
Schools across the country have been cracking down on poor attendance with technology and data, says research

Coalition ''doing well'' on decentralisation | 10 December 2012
All departments have engaged constructively with the decentralisation agenda, says Greg Clark

Boot camp training for badly behaved pupils | 07 December 2012
Former soldiers are to be used to provide military-style boot-camp training for badly behaved pupils

Pay reforms will reward the best teachers | 06 December 2012
Changes to teachers' pay are intended to give schools the autonomy to reward success and penalise failure

Osborne ditches regional pay plans | 05 December 2012
George Osborne has ended months of uncertainty by revealing that plans to impose regional public sector pay settlements have been abandoned.

Councils ''lack ambition'' to improve schools | 05 December 2012
Councils must raise their own levels of ambition if they are to improve children's lives, David Laws has warned.

Public schools can choose to be charities | 05 December 2012
Public schools can continue to claim charitable status and the decision is theirs, says Charity Commission chairman

UKBA let bogus students through the net | 29 November 2012
UK Border Agency failed to act on thousands of tip-offs concerning bogus overseas students

Ofsted opens access to report data online | 27 November 2012
People now able to analyse data from the outcomes of Ofsted inspections across the country

School reduces cyber bullying after mobile phone ban | 27 November 2012
Ofsted has commented on the success of tackling cyber bullying at a school after it banned mobile phones on its campus

''Huge differences'' in quality of education | 27 November 2012
New league tables rank councils for the first time on the performance of schools in their area

Reward heads for expanding schools | 26 November 2012
Cash bonuses should be given to head teachers to ''incentivise'' them to bring in more pupils

Staff cuts pose threat to vital expertise | 22 November 2012
''Radical'' cuts in Department for Education must not undermine its ability to respond to unforeseen events