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Friday, 14 December 2012
Details on the 2013 Dux awards scheme, which rewards top performance by pupils from maintained secondary schools....
Thursday, 13 December 2012
News on a bid to improve standards in primary schools....
Thursday, 13 December 2012
The Secretary of State for Education's advice to teachers regarding unions' current 'work to rule' industrial action....
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Virtual school heads will provide support for children in care to achieve better educational results, the Government has announced. ...
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Education Minister Elizabeth Truss gives an international evidence speech following today's publication of the PIRLS and TIMSS test results....
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
The results for English pupils taking part in a major international educational test show marks down in science, up in English, and plateauing in math...
Monday, 10 December 2012
Details about a new scheme to allow 14- to 16-year-olds into further education (FE) colleges....
Friday, 07 December 2012
Details about new projects which will employ former armed forces personnel to inspire disengaged pupils....
Thursday, 06 December 2012
A speech given by Elizabeth Truss at the Daycare Trust conference on 4 December 2012....
Thursday, 06 December 2012
Pupils will be encouraged to learn poems by heart by taking part in a new national competition....
Wednesday, 05 December 2012
The School Teachers' Review Body (STRB) has called on the government to link teachers’ pay more closely to their performance....
Friday, 30 November 2012
Information on the government's call for councils to cut adoption waiting times....
Thursday, 29 November 2012
Information on how Ofsted will be allowed to share the names and addresses of children’s homes with organisations such as the police....
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Local authority allocations to deliver 15 hours a week early education for 130,000 two-year-olds have been published....
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Government and industry figures give their reaction to an independent review into the future of apprenticeships....
Monday, 26 November 2012
Edward Timpson, Minister for Families, visited a parenting class in High Peak, Derbyshire. ...
Monday, 26 November 2012
Education Secretary Michael Gove announced plans to support the expansion of Teach First....
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Education Secretary speech on child protection on 19th November at the Institute of Public Policy Research....
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Information on an extension to trials helping children and young adults with special educational needs....
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Education Minister Matthew Hancock announces that only the highest-quality vocational qualifications will continue to count in college and school sixt...
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Details of an increase in the number of teachers with high-quality degrees, including highest number of physics graduates recruited since 1979 and mor...
Saturday, 17 November 2012
News on the reaction to the Department for Education’s proposal to make foreign languages compulsory for pupils aged 7 to 11....
Friday, 16 November 2012
Today (16 November 2012) Lord Carlile has submitted his review of the Edlington Case to Education Secretary Michael Gove....
Thursday, 15 November 2012
The government is interested in exploring how academies and free schools can use their freedoms to create a military ethos and raise standards....
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Speaking at the Fostering Network’s annual conference, Children’s Minister Edward Timpson calls for a cut in the red tape stopping foster carers getti...
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Education Secretary Michael Gove speaks at the Independent Academies Association....
Monday, 12 November 2012
Extracts from Nursery World’s interview with Elizabeth Truss, Minister for Education and Childcare....
Friday, 09 November 2012
The Education Minister calls for a renaissance in maths to help meet the demand of UK employers, and announces the removal of calculators from key sta...
Friday, 09 November 2012
On 9 November 2012, Education and Childcare Minister Elizabeth Truss announced that calculators would be banned in maths tests for 11-year-olds from 2...
Friday, 09 November 2012
Peter Batley, Debbie Meech and Jonathan Crossley-Holland have been appointed to serve as members of the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) for three ...
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