Education


1997: "Education, education, education!"
2005: Children are being sent to Africa for a better education (see 15/03/05)


Department for Education and Skills


Inspector attacks 'woolly' teachers - 27/01/95

Modern teaching 'may devalue history degrees' - 03/08/95

The 'betrayal' of Britain's history - 19/09/95

Lack of role models holds back boys at school - 18/11/96

Tests at 11 and 14 show pupils' flaws in basics - 18/11/96

A politically correct 'peril for history' - 29/11/96

Standard of students at university 'in decline' - 24/07/97

Firms fail to find graduates who are up to the job - 06/01/98

Oxford graduates 'have degree of ignorance about history' - 27/10/98

Oxford students face suspension over tuition fees - 02/12/98

Schools jettison classics to woo boys with comics - 04/12/98

Britain's glorious past fades from history - 20/12/98

What you don't need to know to get a degree - 30/04/99

Students face expulsion over unpaid fees - 18/05/99

Exam chiefs defend lower pass mark - 30/05/99 "David Blunkett plans to meet his target not by raising standards but by dumbing down the exams and fiddling the figures"

Clash over grammar schools - 07/07/99 William Hague has accused Labour of lying when it made an election pledge not to close grammar schools

Students owe £15m in tuition fees - 30/07/99

Blair 'asked to pay school fees' - 24/09/99

Opt-out schools claim cash crisis - 24/09/99 featuring another of Blair's patronizing photocalls

School assaults blamed on cut in exclusions - 28/09/99

Hague attacks plan to cut exclusions - 01/10/99

Schools at heart of Tory blueprint - 04/10/99

Woodhead says pupils should learn a trade - 05/10/99

Fraction sum stumps schools inspector - 14/10/99

Student protest on tuition fees - 16/10/99

Blair blamed over 'excuses culture' - 21/10/99

Ability grouping 'could harm self-esteem' 01/12/99

Poor writing worries inspectors - 14/12/99

Parents 'back corporal punishment' - 07/01/00

Tory plans for 'partner schools' - 07/01/00

Holding back (slow) pupils 'could improve standards' - 14/01/00

Court ruling overturns cut in selection - 14/01/00

Education remains Blair's priority - 21/01/00

Grammar school faces ballot on future - 21/01/00

Closure fears of makeshift school (Kingston upon Hull) - 22/01/00

Anger at 'shabby' student fees deal - 25/01/00

Heads hit out at maths book shortage - 25/01/00

Shame over spelling blunder - 28/01/00

Heads say cuts are costing teachers' jobs - 28/01/00

Poor deal on computers for teachers? - 31/01/00

Blunkett asks academics for help - 02/02/00

Students owe £3m tuition fees - 03/02/00

Cheats stay one step ahead - 05/02/00

School strategies 'paying off' - 08/02/00

Call for fairer funding for schools - 08/02/00

Teachers wait for appraisal details - 09/02/00

College lecturers will have to be qualified - 10/02/00

Blair's education message online ("Education is my passion") - 11/02/00

'Hadrian's Wall' warning over tuition fees - 11/02/00

Teachers rally over pay - 12/02/00

Maths students count themselves better off - 19/02/00

Celebrities add to maths campaign - 20/02/00

Violence closes murdered head's school - 21/02/00

Trainee teachers boycott maths tests - 26/02/00

Sport 'squeezed out of schools' - 28/02/00

Closure threat to failing schools - 01/03/00

Exam targets dismay teachers - 01/03/00

Below inflation rise for universities - 02/03/00

New 'supraheads' to get £100,000 a year - 02/03/00

Universities launch funding inquiry - 03/03/00

Tories promise to pay fees for gifted pupils - 06/03/00

MP backed over son's schooling - 06/03/00

Tories plan assisted places alternatives - 06/03/00

How schools succeed against odds - 08/03/00

Has history gone past its sell-by date? - 08/03/00 "Claims that they [schools] are improving seem to bear no relation to reality." - William Rubinstein

Parents vote to keep grammar school - 10/03/00

Message offers grammars hope - 12/03/00 Blunkett's climbdown from 1995 Conference: "Watch my lips, no selection..., under a Labour government."

'Three-day week' threat for schools - 13/03/00

Pupils paid to attend school - 13/03/00

Another 'superhead' quits school - 14/03/00

Grammar ballots defeated by peers - 15/03/00

Sponsors to take over bad schools - 15/03/00

Blunkett called to account on selective schools - 15/03/00

Anger at scheme for failing schools - 15/03/00

Ex-superhead backs academies - 15/03/00

Labour's bold borrowed ideas - 15/03/00

Blunkett committed to grammar ballots - 15/03/00

Teachers' computer rebate scheme cut - 17/03/00

Read my lips' selection pledge [Blunkett] was 'a joke'? - 18/03/00

Hi-tech crumbling school - 19/03/00

Cyber school on the horizon - 19/03/00

How bright pupils are held back in science - 23/03/00

Parents lobby to safeguard grammars - 24/03/00

Kent grammar school opponents retire hurt - 28/03/00

Tuition fee 'anomaly' resolved - 29/03/00

School asks parents for £50 a term - 30/03/00

Blunkett renews his attack on grammars - 01/04/00

Universal primary education by 2015 - 03/04/00

Call to cut school red tape - 06/04/00

Heads warn Blunkett on [secondary] class sizes - 09/04/00

Must try harder, exam boards told - 12/04/00

Infant class sizes falling - 12/04/00

Class sizes fall - and rise - 12/04/00

Opt-out school fights to stay independent - 17/04/00

Unions urged to stop giving negative view of profession - 21/04/00

Teachers call for strike against pay by performance - 22/04/00

Tuition fees help double student debt in five years - 22/04/00

Pupils 'being used as pawns in game' - 25/04/00

Blair 'fails to understand how we work' - 25/04/00

Teachers blame loss of exclusion powers for wave of bullying - 22/04/00

Opt-out school fights to stay independent - 22/04/00

Teachers' leader defies vote to call pay strike - 26/04/00

Puttnam warns over 'whingeing' - 26/04/00

Tories plan to end school strikes - 26/04/00

Soaring school fees raise parents' fears - 27/04/00

Teachers in 'get tough' call over violence - 27/04/00

Head will be free to expel under Tories - 27/04/00

Staff plan boycott of school red tape - 27/04/00

More 'sin bins' for unruly pupils - 27/04/00

Blunkett promises to fight obscenity and bad manners - 28/04/00

I quit, teacher tells education chief - 28/04/00

Teachers want anti-bullying law - 28/04/00

Strike threat over five-term year - 28/04/00

Teachers to fight five-term plans - 29/04/00

Teachers in 'get tough' call over violence - 29/04/00

'Too easy' maths A-level to be made more difficult - 30/04/00

Teachers rebuked for heckling minister on pay - 02/05/00

Pupils 'missing' from school system - 03/05/00

Number of fee-paying pupils at an all-time high - 04/05/00

Teachers' computer concerns - 06/05/00

'Fresh start' school stays shut - 06/05/00

'Rescued' school to close despite £2.5m cash boost - 09/05/00

Parents find £1m to give school new lease of life - 09/05/00

Rural schools to be protected - 09/05/00

Note of despair for struggling choir schools - 10/05/00

Warning over higher education funding - 11/05/00

Divorce and 're-partnering' lessons in new curriculum - 12/05/00

Schools' rich-poor divide - 12/05/00

Oxford seeks state school students - 15/05/00

Dunkirk: Lest we forget - 16/05/00

Heads' warn Blair over 'dreadful' schools - 16/05/00

Wandsworth gets inspectors' praise - 18/05/00

Head sends 200 pupils home to prevent end-of-term 'riot' - 20/05/00

Guns return to the nursery school toy chest - 22/05/00

Teachers' bonus in best schools - 23/05/00

Rights Act threatens school uniforms - 24/05/00

Minister's brother quits teaching over 'paper shuffling' - 25/05/00

Brown blasts Oxford over Geordie girl - 26/05/00 was Brown at the interview?

Brown's student politics - 26/05/00

Oxford hits back in admissions row - 26/05/00

Anger at grammar schools campaign - 26/05/00

Oxbridge blues, and reds - 26/05/00

Blunkett's victim wins Ofsted's accolade - 27/05/00 OFSTED'S highest accolade has been awarded to the Conservative-controlled education authority repeatedly criticised by David Blunkett

State pupils win bigger Oxford share - 27/05/00

Entry to Magdalen is a competition not lottery, say students - 27/05/00

Politicians 'are damaging all our interests' - 27/05/00

Evidence of bias against state schools - 27/05/00

Harvard remains a symbol of academic and old school elitism - 27/05/00

'Bulldog' bowler may go - 27/05/00

An unwelcome intruder in Oxford - 27/05/00

Untrue, uneducated, unworthy - 27/05/00

Head in Oxford reject row is a Labour adviser - 28/05/00 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Focus: Oxford blues - 28/05/00

'I was a dustman. Oxford took me when no one else would' - 28/05/00

It is Blair who really dislikes Oxford - 28/05/00

Universities face 'fines' for ignoring state pupils - 28/05/00

Ministers plan anti-elitism campaign - 28/05/00

Hague attacks 'class war' by Labour - 29/05/00

The forces of desperation - 29/05/00

Magdalen's bias... towards me - by Si"n Simon - 29/05/00

Heads under pressure over pay - 29/05/00

Take more state pupils, Prescott tells Oxford - 30/05/00

Tories challenge Labour over head's link to party - 30/05/00

Campus cannot understand fuss - 30/05/00

Harvard's talent scouts target brightest and best - 30/05/00

Dr Kelley's heroes - 30/05/00

Varsity classes for pupils, 12 - 30/05/00

University offers for 12 year olds - 30/05/00

Heads attack expulsion policy - 30/05/00

Call to scrap school inspections - 30/05/00

Incentives to end university 'elitism' - 30/05/00

Hague condemns 'cynical' Brown - 31/05/00

Writing people off is immoral, says Prescott - 31/05/00

Targets on admissions 'could well be illegal' - 31/05/00

Setting the interviewer's newspaper alight guarantees a place. Discuss - 31/05/00

Dos and don'ts for applicants - 31/05/00

Middle class students face huge fee rise - 31/05/00

All roads lead to Oxford - even mine - by William Hague - 31/05/00 (from Wath-upon-Dearne comprehensive, near Rotherham)

We parents are well schooled in class warfare - by Tom Utley - 31/05/00

The violent pupils who cannot be expelled - 31/05/00

Inspectors 'are like Spanish Inquisition' - 31/05/00

Hague stokes elitism row - 31/05/00

'Top-up' fees threat for students - 31/05/00

Labour 'bars Oxford cash for children' - 01/06/00 also hypoc

One-eyed view aids dyslexics - 01/06/00

The real question is: can Blair control Campbell? - by Boris Johnson - 01/06/00

The fury of the dons - 01/06/00 Gordon Brown has become the Crosland of our time.

Model of a modern European school [Hockerill Anglo-European College, Bishop's Stortford] - 01/06/00

Teachers told to give up a week's holiday - 01/06/00

Funding row threatens 'superteacher' scheme - 01/06/00

Strip councils of control over schools, say heads - 01/06/00

Blunkett aims to bypass town halls over schools' cash - 01/06/00

Teachers lost role 'to Sixties morality' - 01/06/00

Oxford don hits back at ministers - 01/06/00

Schools get code to tackle racism - 01/06/00

Oxford's gift was my self-belief - 01/06/00 Sally Morris went to Oxford from a state education in Hereford. Here she explains what she gained...

David Blunkett - Money and power goes to schools - 01/06/00

Schools get code to tackle racism - 01/06/00

Schools may get their own funding - 01/06/00

Action on exclusion of violent pupils - 01/06/00

Blunkett frees state schools - 02/06/00

Oxford master quits, blaming 'endless' cutbacks - 02/06/00

Government not anti-Oxbridge, says Lady Jay - 02/06/00

College system is creaking under financial burden - 02/06/00

The perils of Pembroke's penury - 02/06/00

Magdalen man calls for more Geordies - 02/06/00

A test for Mr Blunkett - 03/06/00 One Midlands town sums up all the problems facing schools in poorer areas.

North rejects Prescott's attacks on 'elitism' - 03/06/00

Head teachers' union calls for £100,000-a-year salaries - 03/06/00

Strip councils of control over schools, say heads - 03/06/00

Exam targets turn teachers into cheaters - 03/06/00

Head attacks Lady Jay's 'hypocrisy' - 04/06/00

US education chief steps into Oxbridge 'elitism' row - 04/06/00

The best of British - 04/06/00

Mr Brown digs in - 04/06/00

Eleven top universities accused of state bias - 05/06/00

Boys trailing as girls widen the GCSE gap - 05/06/00

Admission fees - 05/06/00

Oxford already close to Brown target - 05/06/00

State school pupils 'aim lower' - 05/06/00

Poor handwriting can cost a GCSE grade - 05/06/00

Parents told to get their children moving - 05/06/00

Call for state school talent scouts - 05/06/00

International education league tables? - 05/06/00

Blair calls truce in row over Oxbridge privilege - 06/06/00

Our universities must break free - 06/06/00

More bias for Brown - 06/06/00

Hague promises to tackle school 'thugs' - 06/06/00

Free places for all three year olds - 06/06/00

Heads debate Hague's idea - 06/06/00

Five Scots universities are 'worst in Britain' - 07/06/00

Pay lures third more trainee teachers - 07/06/00

Teachers praise Hague's attack on 'liberal elite' - 07/06/00

School that pioneers 'positive' discipline - 07/06/00

A class act - 07/06/00

Blair re-ignites cabinet cold war - 07/06/00

Labour MPs attack Oxbridge MAs - 08/06/00

Department for Education and Employment

Anti-grammar parents lose appeal - 08/06/00

Big expansion of beacon schools - 08/06/00

Blunkett upholds ballot on Ripon Grammar School - 09/06/00

Oxford college uses web to say: come and join us - 09/06/00

Grammar crammer for teachers - 09/06/00

Universities 'should stop awarding firsts' - 10/06/00

College guide bans 'lady' and 'history' as offensive words - 11/06/00

Girls' schools return in US - 11/06/00

PhD students pay £10,000 'but can't write' - 12/06/00

How graduates doctor their prose - 12/06/00

Threat to block student cheats' Net essay bank - 12/06/00 Zarr.com receives thumbs-up from students and proposed ban by universities

School grounds relieve pupil stress - 12/06/00

Changing the education news agenda - 13/06/00

Elitism claims are 'hollow promises' - 14/06/00 Education row reignites as former Cabinet Secretary says Government is hindering underprivileged students

Oxford's revenge on Brown - 14/06/00

Teachers' pay 'a monster' - 16/06/00

Etonians carry indelible brand - 17/06/00

Leg-up for poor students - 19/06/00

University places inquiry begins - 19/06/00

Funding schools with vouchers - 20/06/00

Entire teaching staff quits - 21/06/00

Teachers to take action on workload - 22/06/00

Oxford degree snub for Blair - 22/06/00

Soaring cost of school arson - 23/06/00

Net access to pupils' records - 25/06/00

UK suffers skills shortage - 27/06/00

Woodhead calls for schools to be set free - 28/06/00 Meddling local politicians largely responsible for incompetent education authorities

Sex education in class 'must end' - 28/06/00 Parents should choose when children learn facts of life, right-wing pressure group says

£30 a week teaches teenagers to learn - 28/06/00 More students above 16 staying on to continue their studies

Universities' funding fears - 28/06/00

One in 20 trainee teachers fails basic maths test - 29/06/00

Jobless face spelling checks - 29/06/00 Unemployed to sit numeracy and literacy tests as a condition of New Deal programme

Oxbridge 'is fair to state pupils' - 29/06/00 Analysis of grades suggests independent school students are not taking an unfair share of places

Oxford appoints 'agony professor' - 29/06/00 University responds to charges of elitism with Internet fictional don

Being clever has not taught young how to be happy - 29/06/00 Record levels of educational achievement have not helped students feel good about themselves, says study

Schools cash in after councils shamed - 29/06/00

Revolt over top digs for the top students - 30/06/00 One of Cambridge's oldest colleges causes uproar by returning to system of allocating rooms

Schools given £385m from cuts in red tape - 30/06/00 Only Cornwall fails to meet targets on bureaucratic costs

Private bias 'naive' - 30/06/00 MPs blast Government for overlooking alternatives for failing schools

LEAs' Local Schools Budgets 2000-01 - 30/06/00

Two heads for smallest school - 30/06/00

University tasters for young pupils - 01/07/00

Hague accuses Blunkett of ditching uniform rule - 02/07/00 Tory and Labour locked in battle to prove who has the toughest schools policy

Colleges £200m in debt as Brown squeezes budgets - 02/07/00

School hires bouncers to curb truants - 02/07/00 Nottingham headmaster employs security guards to help enforce rules

Student anger at '£50,000' fee threat - 03/07/00

Hague's cash deal for schools - 04/07/00 Tory leader offers £540 more per pupil under plans to scrap existing local education authorities

Firms confused by Oxbridge MA - 04/07/00 Government advisers attempt to persuade universities to abandon qualification that is awarded automatically

Hague leaps toward vouchers - 04/07/00

Qualifications baffle employers - 04/07/00

Oxford blames state schools' attitude - 05/07/00

Vocational GCSEs to be unveiled - 06/07/00

Head teacher quits to be lorry driver - 06/07/00 Tim Gunn blames red tape and pressure of constant scrutiny

Governmment rejects call for university fees - 07/07/00

Students could face fee rise - 07/07/00

Hague: Boost churches' school role - 07/07/00

Students say top-up fees cut access - 07/07/00

Blairs' head in alcohol attack - 09/07/00 Euan Blair's school headmaster blames parents for teenage drinking and failure to counter Britain's 'entrenched alcohol culture'

Woodhead praises Hague's schools plan - 09/07/00

Blair wants to give fast-food pupils free apples - 09/07/00

Universities compete to draw veil over the poor man's degree - 09/07/00 Days of the 'gentleman's' degree drawing to a close as calls for new grading system increases

Woodhead backs Hague proposals - 10/07/00 Chief Inspector of Schools expresses support for Opposition education policy

Bidding starts for foundation degrees - 10/07/00 Universities, colleges and employers are being invited to submit bids to develop two-year vocationally-oriented degrees

Benefits of the learning loop - 10/07/00

Rethink urged as fourth head resigns - 11/07/00 Fourth Fresh Start teacher quits over failed Ofsted inspection

'Perfect' school says tables are flawed - 11/07/00 Shenington Primary repeats success in national tests before launching attack on evaluation system

'Fresh start' is lost cause, says union - 11/07/00 four out of nine fresh start head teachers have resigned within their first year

An end to cold showers and rituals that repel boarders - 12/07/00 New guidelines intend to bury austere image of Tom Brown's Schooldays

Rating schools on free meals 'misleading' - 12/07/00 Secondary Heads Association says school tables and inspectors reports mislead parents

Money does not raise results - 12/07/00

School dinner guidelines 'disappointing' - 12/07/00

Stressed heads turning to drink - 12/07/00

Education - 13/07/00 Progress at primaries

Ministers order red meat for anorexic girls - 13/07/00 Beef, lamb or pork to be served three times a week in schools

School meals still have important role to play - 13/07/00 Free dinners have promoted health of nation for nearly 100 years

Parenting lessons for mother of truant - 13/07/00 Boy, 14, attended 39 out of 256 school days before his GCSEs

30 students 'pull out of Oxford' - 13/07/00 State school applicants withdraw because of government's 'elitism' attacks

Suspicion raised as schools hit targets early - 14/07/00 Government two years ahead of schedule after second successive leap in 11-year-old pupils' test results

Grammars 'will be gone by 2011' - 14/07/00 Student selection will become irrelevant as literacy and numeracy improves says Education Secretary

Teachers' pay changes ruled illegal - 14/07/00

Blunkett blames his advisers - 14/07/00 education secretary blames civil servants after his attempt to introduce performance pay for teachers is declared illegal

Teachers' pay plan 'not derailed' - 14/07/00

Blunkett forced to retreat in pay row - 15/07/00

Headmistress faces jail for slapping boy - 15/07/00 Primary head teacher convicted of striking 'difficult' ten-year-old child across face

Law lends far too much credence to pupils, experts say - 15/07/00 Threat of jail to Marjorie Evans brings law into disrepute says former Law Society President

NUT forces a halt to £2,000 merit pay rise - 15/07/00 Government's attempt to introduce performance-related pay for teachers is in chaos after union challenge

More parents fight rejection by schools - 15/07/00 Official figures show sharp rise in admission appeals

No backing for ballots to abolish grammars - 16/07/00 If those who want to abolish grammars cannot even get enough signatures to trigger a ballot, it proves that they do not have the public's support

Slapped boy was 'little monster' - 17/07/00 Mother pleads for headmistress to be spared jail

Blunkett rejects 'loadsamoney' tag - 17/07/00 Blunkett has poured cold water on figures such as £200 and £500 extra per pupil

Blunkett wins £50m to stem brain drain - 18/07/00 Universities receive surprise cash boost from Chancellor after 15 years of successive budget cuts

Schools windfall tied to results - 18/07/00

Direct funding gets thumbs up - 18/07/00

Bonanza for schools depends on new targets - 19/07/00

A bonanza for schools after 20 lean years - 19/07/00

Ministers 'misled MPs' on pay - 19/07/00

Doubts over children's writing test - 23/07/00

London colleges' 'severe' problems - 26/07/00

Heads given back right to expel unruly children - 02/08/00

'The appeals panels cause all the trouble' - 02/08/00

Oxford reveals state school offers - 04/08/00

Cash offer to recruit teachers - 04/08/00

Oxford gives details of state school admissions - 05/08/00

Teachers 'leave children bored by the Bard' - 06/08/00

'Good grope guide' given to under-14s - 04/08/00

Schools recruit in Australia as teacher crisis bites - 05/08/00

Merton comes top again in Oxford degrees table - 05/08/00

University teaching is getting much better - 05/08/00

Exams not dumbed down, say heads - 07/08/00

Gifted pupils' summer hot housing - 09/08/00

Inquiry into exam results delay - 09/08/00

Universities 'failing to widen access' - 11/08/00

Minister [Sam Galbraith] 'passed the buck' over exam shambles - 12/08/00

When the going gets tough, Galbraith's gone - 12/08/00

Exams chief resigns - 12/08/00

Private schools fight for end to university bias - 13/08/00

Books and exams are strewn with errors, says Open University survey - 13/08/00

Crisis talks over exams fiasco - 13/08/00

Education minister insists: 'I stay' - 14/08/00

Exam results shambles - 15/08/00

A-level reform cash 'not delivered' - 15/08/00

No-name marking to counter racism - 15/08/00

Graduates 'lack work skills' - 16/08/00

Girls take A-level lead for first time - 17/08/00

Minister denies 'dumbing down' as grades rise - 17/08/00

Girls are the A-level stars - 17/08/00

University by-passes Highers - 17/08/00 Aberdeen University said students with missing grades "had waited long enough" to have their places confirmed

Schools told to root out 'lad' culture - 18/08/00

Girl Power leaves lads lagging behind - 18/08/00

Exams head in grades pledge - 18/08/00

Black culture 'holding back' boys - 21/08/00

School gap blamed on black culture - 21/08/00

Gender divide - 21/08/00 Stamping out school 'laddism'

New call for Galbraith to go - 21/08/00

Galbraith told not to pass the buck over exam chaos - 22/08/00

Marking error put girl's Oxford placing at risk - 22/08/00 (where's Gordon Brown now?)

Exams fiasco places pledge - 22/08/00

Race row teacher loses case - 22/08/00

Missing A-level papers found - 22/08/00

Girls widen the grades gap in every subject - 24/08/00

Pressure grows on Dewar to reshuffle after exams fiasco - 24/08/00

Exam Results Summer 2000

Girls stay ahead in GCSEs - 24/08/00

Galbraith faces no confidence motion - 24/08/00

Girls ahead in another record year for passes - 25/08/00

Top-up fees penalty sought - 25/08/00

Skippy school - 25/08/00 Oz teachers fill UK gap

Colleges steal a march on grammars - 26/08/00 GCSE Results

St Paul's girls take school to top of league - 26/08/00

Analysis: The best that money can buy pays off for pupils - 26/08/00

'Virtually all' student places confirmed - 26/08/00

Single-sex solutions - 26/08/00

Six terms a year proposed in schools calendar shake-up - 27/08/00

Classroom rebels rewarded with foreign adventure holidays - 27/08/00 under a scheme funded by taxpayers.

Secondary school spells trouble - 28/08/00

Scots schools 'are stuck in Victorian time warp' - 29/08/00

Review ordered by exams body chief - 29/08/00

Cambridge is taught a lesson by Wandsworth - 30/08/00 Inner London primary schools outperform University of Cambridge in teacher-training tables published today

Students condemn grant plan - 30/08/00

Scotland's exams crisis deepens - 30/08/00

Minister [Sam Galbraith] faces new resignation demands - 30/08/00

Galbraith: I'm sorry, but I'm also very angry - 31/08/00

Pupils dropped in league table row - 31/08/00

Exam checks not carried out - 31/08/00

School funding in 'disarray' - 31/08/00

Sixth-form elites 'could backfire' - 01/09/00

What leading schools ask from students who want to do A-levels - 01/09/00

Six-term plan for school year - 01/09/00

Six-term school year proposed - 01/09/00

Grammar school ballots 'fair' - 01/09/00

Call to scrap national quota on expulsions - 02/09/00

Islington schools: is privatisation working? - 02/09/00

Doubts cast over exam appeal deadline - 02/09/00

Secret shame of maths teachers - 02/09/00

Heads want support against pupils' lies - 03/09/00

Voucher system aids black pupils - 03/09/00 USA

Sixth-form elites 'could backfire' - 04/09/00

Fears for Oxford colleges as Americans buy a way in - 04/09/00

Signing-on fees for teachers? - 04/09/00

Tories want to 'free up' universities - 05/09/00

Arctic campus seeks UK students - 05/09/00

Scotland's exams crisis deepens - 05/09/00

Pupils with Down's syndrome in mainstream schools - 05/09/00

Teachers stung by A-level criticism - 05/09/00

Who would be a teacher? - 05/09/00

Private state school starts work - 05/09/00

Staff shortages mar new term - 05/09/00

The stunts schools pull to cover vacancies - 05/09/00

Maths Year clock starts ticking - 05/09/00

Executive to set up exams watchdog - 05/09/00

Galbraith in exams fiasco spotlight - 06/09/00

Comprehensives must change: Blair - 08/09/00

Smaller classes give mixed results - 08/09/00

Early learning can reduce special needs - 09/09/00

Teachers stung by A-level criticism - 09/09/00

A-level pupils 'are facing a 50-hour week' - 12/09/00

Children fail to learn from home computers - 09/09/00

Schools need parents' backing - 11/09/00

First privately run state school opens - 13/09/00

More cash to recruit poor students - 14/09/00

Keep up standards, universities told - 15/09/00

The Few forgotten by the many - 15/09/00

Private schools 'not for privileged elite' - 18/09/00

Private schools 'engines of change' - 18/09/00

Primary science 'too hard' - 18/09/00

Clearer school funding demand - 19/09/00

Councils keep control of school budgets - 19/09/00

Primary school test results improve - 20/09/00

Blunkett is accused of school budgets U-turn - 20/09/00 Head teachers claim Education Secretary broke promise to guarantee them full control of school budgets

Schools challenge test results - 20/09/00

Tests show pupils have better grasp of basics - 21/09/00

Teachers 'deserve' professional respect - 21/09/00

Blunkett rejects teacher 'crisis' - 21/09/00

School drugs exclusions 'were racist' - 21/09/00

State heads want private sector pay rate - 22/09/00

Private finance funds $80m state school - 23/09/00

Campaigners against grammars to quit - 25/09/00

Blair's manifesto promise for schools - 26/09/00

Blunkett to pledge free nursery places - 27/09/00

Exams chaos inquiries widen - 27/09/00

Criticism of 11-plus selection test - 28/09/00

Anglo-US drive on failing schools - 04/10/00

Teachers swap ideas with US - 05/10/00

Universities told they are too middle class - 06/10/00 (Royal Holloway now has 70% state-educated entrants)

Teacher shortage sends pupils home - 06/10/00

Transatlantic teaching tie-up - 07/10/00

Go-ahead for Muslim girls' school - 07/10/00

Parents angry at four-day school week - 09/10/00

Art classes fail to move students / School music plays second fiddle - 10/10/00

Share-a-teacher idea in staffing crisis - 11/10/00

Record student numbers - 12/10/00

More students getting top grades - 12/10/00

Country life mystifies primary pupils - 12/10/00

Blunkett: Teacher bonuses by Christmas - 15/10/00

Millions to raise school standards - 16/10/00

University entrants' personal statements - 07/10/00

Naming and shaming 'helps failing schools improve' - 14/10/00

Fears over 'two-tier' schools system - 17/10/00

Cambridge admissions disclosed - 17/10/00

Cambridge fears a fall in state pupils - 17/10/00 In one speech he [Gordon Brown] has done more to discourage state school pupils from aspiring to go to our leading universities than anyone else (these fears confirmed below on 08/12/00)

University cuts threat - 17/10/00 Edinburgh

New national test for five-year-olds - 18/10/00

Truants face fresh crackdown - 19/10/00

Reward schemes win back truants - 19/10/00

We'll try harder to stop truants, say ministers - 20/10/00

Tories attack on teacher shortages - 25/10/00

Class size 'failure' accusation - 26/10/00

Golf lessons for children aged nine 'a gimmick' - 28/10/00

State school applicants to Oxford drop to 54pc - 28/10/00 after Gordon Brown's attack on its admissions procedures

Foreign Office 'forced Europe on to curriculum' - 28/10/00 "Diplomats" put pressure on the Department of Education

Fall in infant class sizes - 01/11/00

Exams failure 'hidden' from chief - 01/11/00

Woodhead spars with MPs - 01/11/00

Lessons from computer use at home - 01/11/00

Exams board facing sack - 02/11/00

Schools watchdog Woodhead resigns - 02/11/00

The man teachers love to hate - 02/11/00

'Witch finder' remark angers Woodhead - 02/11/00

Union demands 'expel unruly pupils' - 02/11/00

Labour fears backlash as Woodhead steps down - 03/11/00

Classroom warrior who stood in the corner of tradition - 03/11/00

In the words of Chris Woodhead - 03/11/00 "15,000 teachers are incompetent."

A parting of ways - 03/11/00

Teachers shed no tears for Woodhead - 03/11/00

Woodhead wants freedom to speak out - 03/11/00

Suspending teachers costs millions - 03/11/00

Exam report forces mass resignation of board - 03/11/00

Exams board offers to quit - 03/11/00

Childcarers protest at 'smacking' rules - 05/11/00

School standards reform row - 07/11/00

Anti-drugs education compulsory - 07/11/00

Grammars 'exclude the poor' - 07/11/00

Windfall for schools - 08/11/00

Gym slips 'put girls off sport' - 10/11/00

Woodhead delivers parting shot - 11/11/00

Tests 'obsession' under attack - 13/11/00

Parents 'ignored' by schools - 14/11/00

Students march against fees - 15/11/00

Hardship 'bar' to studying - 15/11/00

Comprehensive's 100% at GCSE - 16/11/00

Top head attacks league tables - 16/11/00

Specialist schools' league success - 16/11/00

Hackney set to lose control of schools - 17/11/00

Tories lead Labour in student poll - 22/11/00

More teachers but shortages remain - 20/11/00

Head teachers 'in short supply' - 22/11/00

More aspire to be head teachers - 23/11/00

Action over non-English spellings - 24/11/00

Concerns over money going to schools - 24/11/00

Private firms 'to thrive' in schools - 27/11/00

Costs deter poorest students - 27/11/00

School league tables 'set for review' - 29/11/00

School's 'failing' label dropped - 29/11/00

Call for action on black school failure - 05/12/00...many black boys saw learning as "anti-black"...in Peckham today if you go to the library with a book in your hand you're considered 'weird'

English pupils lag behind in maths - 05/12/00

Primary School League Tables 2000 - 07/12/00

William Gilbert Endowed

Village school [Yeadon Westfield Junior School in Leeds] is 'best' primary - 07/12/00 Its head teacher attributes the success to hard work... but he would like ministers to stop bombarding schools with new initiatives

All-round school gets 'perfect' results - 07/12/00

Fewer state pupils at Cambridge - 08/12/00

Conkers hit by legal fears - 08/12/00

Tories warn of school four-day week - 08/12/00

Parents against smacking ban - 09/12/00

Students' deepening debt burden - 20/12/00

A dramatic year for education - 25/12/00

Heads honoured for reviving schools - 30/12/00

Drugs homework at primary school - 31/12/00

Anti-truancy drive cuts crime - 03/01/01

Four-day week threat in schools - 03/01/01

Teacher shortage protest letter - 03/01/01 to Blunkett

Bonuses for teachers to help boost weak schools - 05/01/01

Hague: 'Where are the teachers?' - 09/01/01

School league tables scrapped [Northern Ireland] - 10/01/01

Head teachers hard to replace - 12/01/01

Truth about teacher shortages - 13/01/01

'I disagree with private education, but . . .' - 14/01/01 parents and teachers are increasingly exasperated with Labour's stewardship of state education

Pupils' 'appalling' history knowledge - 18/01/01

Pass rate rising for black pupils - 23/01/01

Didn't mum do well in my GCSEs? - 25/01/01

Students expelled as debts multiply - 29/01/01

GCSE maths coursework 'easier than the exams' - 29/01/01

State pupil entries at Oxford pull ahead - 29/01/01

State pupils lead race to Oxford - 29/01/01

Oxford welcome for state pupils - 30/01/01

University plan for top-up fees - 30/01/01

Young teachers struggle with debt - 02/02/01

School choice: Is there a better way? - 03/02/01

Campus closes in university 'crisis' - 03/02/01

MA from Oxbridge is branded bogus - 10/02/01

Whitehall will pay off student loans for teachers - 11/02/01

University vandalism is failing the bright child - 11/02/01

Loans deal to lure new teachers - 11/02/01

Comprehensives set for overhaul - 12/02/01

Blair's vision for secondary education - 12/02/01

Comprehensive ideal 'not dead' - 13/02/01

Hague vows to restore grammars - 14/02/01

I, not Tony Blair, will end the comprehensive school system - by William Hague - 14/02/01 Mr Blair proposes "giving headteachers greater management freedom", but it was his act of education vandalism that abolished grant-maintained schools and freedom for headteachers in the first place

Blair plan offends all shades of opinion - 14/02/01

Forget the school, it's the teaching that counts - 14/02/01 By Susan Crosland, whose late husband pioneered the comprehensive system

Warning issued in 1969 appears to have been prophetic - 14/02/01

Britain 'is poaching South African teachers' - 16/02/01

Blunkett rejects 'bog standard' tag - 17/02/01 The Education Secretary has risked a clash with Blair's spokesman Alastair Campbell who called current comprehensives "bog standard"

Parents campaign to shut top grammars - 18/02/01 Campaigners in Buckinghamshire collect signatures to initiate ballot on turning county fully comprehensive

Germans opt for UK boarding schools - 19/02/01

Double your salary - teach abroad - 20/02/01

University science funding details - 20/02/01

Higher student fees 'still possible' - 23/02/01

Woodhead: "Blair and Blunkett have not delivered. The children have been betrayed" - 01/03/01

Extra cash offered to good teachers - 23/03/01

Schools enlist online register to beat truancy - 26/03/01

Hague vows to reduce controls on schools - 26/03/01

Concern over new A-level results - 30/03/01

£2m in prizes went to wrong schools - 30/03/01

Chasing the teachers' vote - 30/03/01

Labour trumpets class size 'success' - 06/04/01

Heads sceptical over 'falling' class sizes - 06/04/01

Teachers plan 35-hour week 'work to rule' - 10/04/01

Boy faces race trial for school 'scuffle' - 10/04/01

Funds not charity say teachers - 10/04/01

Teacher shortages 'will worsen' - 11/04/01

Ofsted inspectors will become more 'teacher-friendly' - 12/04/01 A school's assessment of its own strengths and weaknesses would be a major part of the new process

Blair calls for pact with teachers - 12/04/01 based on "honesty and trust"

Blair aims for public school funding levels - 13/04/01

NUT chief attacks Left-wingers - 14/04/01

Blunkett turns on teacher hecklers - 14/04/01

Teachers back a work to rule - 16/04/01

Teachers ready to strike over violent pupils - 17/04/01

Union to campaign for comprehensives - 17/04/01

Tories would allow more expulsions from school - 20/04/01

Teacher vacancies rise - 20/04/01

Huge class size 'unnecessary' - 24/04/01 a primary school in Norfolk has been forced to have a class of 94 pupils

Admissions cost school £20,000 - 25/04/01

Oxbridge, Laura Spence, and a 'culture of failure' - 25/04/01 "ministers are unwilling to address the lack of educational aspiration that surrounds working-class children"

Staff crisis forces head to teach a class of 94 - 25/04/01

Pupil numbers at private schools hit 35-year high - 25/04/01 running counter to Tony Blair's promise to make state schools as attractive as independent schools

The lessons Labour should learn from Laura Spence - 25/04/01 Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, alleged that Oxford's failure to give a place to a particular young woman was a scandal. As it happens she had come 10th in a competition for five places

Failing the children - 25/04/01 A year on from the Laura Spence debacle, Gordon Brown has still failed to apologise for his misinformed attack on Magdalen College

Laura Spence don blames families - 25/04/01

After-school activities 'bring better GCSE results' - 26/04/01

Call for schools swap at 14 - 26/04/01

Open private schools to poor - Tories - 27/04/01

Private schools: Here to stay? - 27/04/01

Comprehensives should be killed off, says Woodhead - 28/04/01

Teachers threaten to boycott spelling lists - 28/04/01

£1 million saves Rannoch School - 28/04/01

Hard-up students 'turn to vice' - 30/04/01

Blunkett returns to 'class of 44' - 02/05/01

New inquiry into workload of teachers - 02/05/01

Indebted students face exclusion - 02/05/01

School inspections 'not a burden' - 03/05/01

Literacy row teacher wins backing for her views - 07/05/01 a poll of more than 500 heads found 96% supported re-introducing the phonic approach which teaches children to sound out letters

Ashamed to be a teacher - 08/05/01

Here beginneth Blair's crusade - 09/05/01 Mr Blair had chosen one of the schools that his former Cabinet colleague, Harriet Harman, had rejected for her children

Surely, children of the future will be adults - 09/05/01 The Prime Minister announced the election before the massed pupils of a south London comprehensive school. Comprehensive schools are important to New Labour politicians. They go to great lengths not to send their children to them

Students with attitude - 09/05/01 being "brainy" - a euphemism for "conscientious" - is not cool

Troubled school appoints new head - 09/05/01

College lecturers vote to strike - 10/05/01

Maths test forces new teachers to quit - 11/05/01

Swiss-style sums prove a success - 11/05/01

Student debt 'threat to wider access' - 11/05/01 Students continue to face expulsion from their courses because they are unable to pay their bills... fees are deterring students from enrolling on courses

Student costs 'put research at risk' - 14/05/01

Colleges plunge into more debt - 16/05/01

UK universities 'in the red' - 16/05/01

Will Labour get more radical? - 17/05/01 The big pledge in 1997 was to cut class sizes for five to seven year olds. This time there are no specific targets for reducing class sizes

Concerns over pre-school expansion - 17/05/01 David Blunkett said Labour had to be "much more careful" about how it delivered its promise on nursery education

Heads call for abolition of GCSEs - 17/05/01

Maths test forces new teachers to quit - 18/05/01 teachers are quitting the profession because they cannot pass a Government-imposed computerised test that has no relevance to their ability to teach

Call to scrap teacher tests - 18/05/01

New tests 'spot inner-city talent' - 18/05/01

Tories target schools 'crisis' - 19/05/01 accusing Labour of being hostile to the best schools in the country and eroding head teachers' power

Top head attacks Blair 'false dawn' - 22/05/01 head teachers are "overburdened with bureaucracy" and teachers are demoralised

Labour dashed our education hopes, says head - 22/05/01 "The whole of the nation's schools are being treated as if they were in the bottom 10%"

Labour 'boost' for schools - 23/05/01 Blunkett promises an extra 10,000 teachers by 2006

Blair signals more private state schools - 23/05/01

Plea over teacher shortfall - 24/05/01 "Shortages got measurably worse last year and we are extremely nervous about the situation in September."

Private firms 'to run poor schools' - 24/05/01

Tories allege schools failure - 25/05/01

Is this school privatisation? - 25/05/01

Universities 'face staff shortages' - 26/05/01

Pupils 'lack access to textbooks' - 27/05/01 There are no textbooks available for homework for 76% of pupils in both English and history, 75% in science and 81% in geography

Heads vote to take action - 31/05/01 in protest at the increased workload they blame on Labour's initiatives

Sixth-formers told to ignore key skills tests - 31/05/01 because they are too difficult

School and health chiefs attack Blair - 01/06/01 As he promised a "crusade" to improve education and health, teachers and doctors' leaders said he had presided over third world standards that brought shame on the country

What the parties promise on education - 01/06/01 shortly before the last election, Tony Blair was quoted as saying: "Labour has no plans to introduce tuition fees for higher education." In fact, tuition fees were introduced in England and Wales in 1998 and are now set at £1,050

He said that last time - 02/06/01 The message of this year's Labour campaign is almost exactly the same as last time: schools and hospitals are in a terrible state of neglect; vote Labour to save them

Analysis: You're not safe with Labour - 06/06/01 Except for some improvement at primary level, schools are no better under Labour. The NHS, its pride and joy, is actually worse

Estelle Morris: classroom to cabinet - 08/06/01

A-level reforms to be reviewed - 12/06/01

'No sale' pledge on health and schools - 12/06/01

UK education gap 'frightening' - 13/06/01

Public schools find it harder to get top teachers - 17/06/01

Queen's Speech: Labour sets sights on public services - 20/06/01 overhauling the secondary system is the top priority

Queen's Speech: Sponsors plan for comprehensives - 20/06/01

Specialist schools: What's in a name? - 23/06/01 This week saw another 79 secondary schools awarded specialist status, taking the total to 684

Private school fees set to rise - 25/06/01

Peckham primary recruits in Russia - 25/06/01

Oxford grants for poor students - 26/06/01

Breaking with Oxbridge elitism - 29/06/01

Low impact of firms on schools - 28/06/01

'Regret' over A-level changes - 11/07/01

A-level changes 'rushed through' - 12/07/01 and ill-thought through

Money 'wasted' on teachers' bonus - 13/07/01

Education plans put back - 15/07/01

'Spin' jibe over school privatisation - 16/07/01

League tables for special schools - 16/07/01

A tale of two schools - 27/07/01

London children not 'monsters' - 07/08/01 but two South African teachers are said to be setting up a support group for colleagues who have been traumatised by time spent teaching in England

'Distorted' exam results warning - 08/08/01

London teacher shortage crisis - 09/08/01

Labour accused of sports fields hypocrisy - 12/08/01 Schools are currently selling off land equivalent to a football pitch every week, despite government pledges to end the scandal of Britain's vanishing playing fields

Scottish higher exam statistics fail to add up - 15/08/01

A-level grades up again - 16/08/01

Tories call for overhaul of exams - 17/08/01

Exams that test nothing - 17/08/01

Teachers not lured back by cash - 17/08/01

Blair's big university pledge fails the poor - 19/08/01 Thousands of places left unfilled - Working class students lose out

Top GCSE grades 'a fix' - 23/08/01

An A-level in four lessons - 24/08/01 "If some of my A-grade candidates are getting too cocky, I just give them an old paper from a few years ago and they can't do it"

Results rise for private schools - 24/08/01 (If they keep this up they'll get scrapped by Labour)

A taste of student life in the USA - 26/08/01

Blair plans a U-turn on university tuition fees - 27/08/01

Teacher shortages worst for decades - 28/08/01

Where are all the teachers? - 28/08/01

Teacher shortages worst for 35 years, says Ofsted head - 29/08/01

Teachers in the lurch - 29/08/01 teachers see their main function as crowd control rather than education

Brown's cash blamed for teacher shortage - 29/08/01

Anger at Whitehall pay leap - 30/08/01 teachers, nurses and other public workers dismayed over plans to give pay rises of up to 50% to Whitehall's leading civil servants

Teacher crisis 'long-term problem' - 30/08/01

Teaching profession 'cannot be sustained' - 31/08/01

Schools crisis will only get worse, says report - 31/08/01

Parents in battle to keep control of opt-out school - 31/08/01

Heads hiring 'poor quality' teachers - 31/08/01

Blair faces more testing times after a week of poor marks - 01/09/01

Government set to miss its key education target - 01/09/01

Open the floodgates and let heads spend the money Mr Brown has handed out - 01/09/01

I was wrong on teachers, says minister - 02/09/01 Stephen Timms, who provoked fury in July by claiming that "schools would have all the teachers they required by September" has admitted that he was wrong

Please, sir: where are you? - 02/09/01

'We had no option but to teach our children ourselves' - 02/09/01

British childcare is worst in Europe - 02/09/01

Blair orders new school league tables - 02/09/01

Child care services 'worst in Europe' - 04/09/01

Teacher shortage blamed on 'uncaring' ministers - 04/09/01 by the body appointed by Tony Blair to raise the morale of the profession

Teacher shortages loom as term starts - 04/09/01

Big changes for secondary schools - 05/09/01

Schools urged to specialise - 06/09/01 Secondary education is failing tens of thousands of pupils, the Government admitted yesterday

School reform 'must focus on secondaries' - 06/09/01

Two cultures - 06/09/01 State schools sink for the same reasons all nationalised industries sink: they are deprived of autonomy, of competitive pressures and of investment

Labour begins to learn - 06/09/01 "excellence for everyone" - made clear Labour's belief that equality was more desirable than diversity

Rebel Welsh undermine Blair's education plans - 07/09/01

Schools admission changes 'a betrayal' - 08/09/01 "another stage in the gradual betrayal of former grant-maintained schools"

Schools will be assessed by pupils in new-look government inspections - 08/09/01

Universities 'will have to open their doors to students without A-levels' - 08/09/01

School watchdog wants to scrap marking of teachers - 10/09/01

Schools to escape full inspections under new plans - 11/09/01

Tackling the school admissions maze - 14/09/01

Students 'depressed by debt burden' - 23/09/01

Tuition fees likely to be reformed - 03/10/01

Teacher statistics 'massaged' - 05/10/01 2,500 of the "new" teachers are not fully qualified, in breach of the government's own guidelines

Euro tour will provide no easy answers on health and education - 10/10/01 Most experts agree that health care and education are better on the Continent than in Britain

Parents in Kent face gamble on 11-plus - 11/10/01

State 'no good at running schools' - 16/10/01

Blair pledges public service reforms - 16/10/01

Why can't our teachers be as good as those in Switzerland? - 17/10/01 or Germany or Arizona?

Hackney schooling taken over - 17/10/01 by "an independent, non-profit making trust"

Trust to run Hackney's failed schools - 18/10/01

More teachers are quitting - 01/11/01

Students rally over funding - 17/11/01

Dunblane parents claim bias in fight for school's future - 23/11/01

League table ups and downs - 05/12/01

Dunblane school loses fight for control - 15/12/01

Six-term school year planned in shake-up - 17/12/01

Many universities are in the red - 28/12/01

£7bn bill for school repairs - 29/12/01

Head's successful shopping trip - 02/01/02

Science lessons hit by staff shortage - 03/01/02

Lower entry standards revealed at universities - 11/01/02

Girls win all the way from primary to university - 12/01/02

Education: The Real Betrayal - 14/01/02

Children had 13 teachers in 14 weeks - 17/01/02

Dropout students cost £150m - 18/01/02</