Education News
BNP teachers will not be banned
Parents urged to act as whistleblowers to stop school places fraud
Parents are being encouraged to use a "whistleblowing" hotline to inform on other parents who they think may have lied or cheated their way into getting a place for their child at a popular school.
The school that turned to Montessori to beat gangs
The words look so simple in a paper setting out the task ahead: "Change public face of Gorton Mount". But for a primary school in the midst of an inner city gangland area, the reality takes a bit longer.
Measures to be strengthened to prevent the promotion of racism by teachers in schools
Who wants a GCSE with fries on the side?
School admissions: one-in-20 forced into 'unwanted' schools
Over 25,000 make News Day special
University targets for poor students 'failing'
Ed Balls orders crackdown on school admissions fraud
Thousands of pupils 'going backwards' in English and maths
Crackdown call over school cheats
Patchy picture on school places
Say what? A guide to teen slang
One in six fail with first choice secondary school
Nearly one in six children in England failed to gain a place at their first choice secondary school this year, Government figures showed today.
McDonald's offers work-based GCSE
Teenager airlifted to hospital after sliding down banister at private school
Schools offered gang trouble tips
'Montessori isn't an exclusive club'
Philip Bujak has a dream. The chief executive of the Montessori St Nicholas Charity hopes that one day every state primary school in the country will have a Montessori teacher on their staff. But with only five state primaries using Montessori practices in the UK, he knows he has a mountain to climb.
Study better in cyberspace
The future is incontestably digital: the internet is changing the way we do all sorts of things, from shopping to working to running our social lives. Education, though, has so far largely remained anchored in the old world – but even this is beginning to change.

