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BBC News: Education
- Universities warned over access
The incoming fair access watchdog says universities will be fined for failing to recruit more students from poorer backgrounds.
Academy school results 'inflated'
The results of England's academy schools are being inflated by the over-use of vocational equivalents, analysis suggests.
Children's access rights pledge
Children are to get legal rights to maintain relationships with both their parents, as part of a shake-up of the family justice system.
Union plea to delay exams change
Schools should be allowed to delay a new exam system if they are not ready to implement it, Scotland's largest teaching union says.
Loans boss 'to pay tax at source'
The head of the Student Loans Company will have tax and National Insurance payments deducted from his £182,000 pay package in future, ministers say.
University places go to colleges
Further education colleges are going to offer thousands more degree places, previously provided by universities.
Shouting out 'helps pupils learn'
Pupils who shout out in class achieve better results than their counterparts who appear to be better behaved and quiet, suggests research.
Asbestos in schools a 'scandal'
The presence of killer fibre asbestos in most UK state schools constitutes a "national scandal", says an all-party group of parliamentarians.
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Department for Education
- Government appoints new Chair of the School Teachers’ Review
Dame Patricia Hodgson DBE has been appointed to serve as Chair of the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) from 1 February 2012 for three years.
Highest quality qualifications in Performance Tables
Announcement that qualifications counting in Performance Tables will be reduced from 3,175 to 125.
New data reveals the truth about school performance
Press notice setting out the secondary school performance tables for GCSE and A level exams.
PfS Board member appointments extended until closure
Education Secretary Michael Gove has extended the appointments for three Board Members of the Government’s delivery agency, Partnerships for Schools.
Department for Education confirms new Chair of Cafcass
Education Secretary Michael Gove has appointed Baroness Tyler as the new Chair of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service.
Thousands of schools sign up for phonics funding
Thousands of primary schools have already signed up to spend more than £7.7 million on new phonics products and training to drive up their pupils’ standards of reading, new Department for Education figures show today.
Barclays to offer expertise to academies and Free Schools
Education Secretary Michael Gove today welcomed a commitment from Barclays to offer their expertise and support to schools across England.
Schools get more freedom to manage teacher performance
Schools will soon find it easier to manage their teachers and help ensure they are performing to the best of their abilities.
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Education Guardian
- Live and learn with distance learning
Distance learning has come far since the days of late-night TV lectures. We speak to students who have turned their lives around from the comfort of their homes
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What I'm really thinking: the brainbox
'I worry that you think I feel superior. I don't. I feel embarrassed'
I don't want to make you feel stupid. Really. I just can't help it. However much I try to hold back, I just did have "a good education" and read a lot of books when I was young. So when there is a quiz, I will inevitably know more answers than most people in the room.
Over Chris...
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Baby boom takes schools to breaking point
Two-shift day and use of empty Woolworths stores among ideas to cope with surge in primary age pupils
A council in east London is drawing up plans to convert an empty Woolworths store into a classroom and teach children in two shifts, in emergency measures across Britain to cope with a dramatic increase in primary school age children.
More than 45...
Seeing visions: Science's annual visual challenge – in pictures
Our pick of the most eye-catching and innovative entries to the 2011 International Science & Engineering Visual Challenge
David Hockney auction to sell 150 artworks
Hockney On Paper sale at Christie's to include etchings inspired by Hogarth, 1954 lithograph and work from his time in America
The past few years have seen David Hockney experimenting with iPads and iPhones, but an auction at Christie's in London will focus on work made with the most basic of art materials. Hockney on Paper will see almost 150 wo...
Penn State defies Facebook campaign calling for it to drop climate lecture | ...
University cites its First Amendment commitment in supporting its climate scientist Michael Mann's right to give lecture
In an uncharacteristically angry post at the New York Times's Dot Earth blog, Andy Revkin has hit out at a "shameful attack on free speech". It relates to a Facebook campaign which is calling on Pennsylvania State University to...
Free nursery places may not help children's education, watchdog finds
National Audit Office says free nursery places have improved development by age five, but results at seven are unchanged
Free nursery places for pre-school children may not have a lasting impact on their education, the government's spending watchdog has suggested.
A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) found it was not clear whether governmen...
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