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
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
Eleven top universities accused of state bias - 05/06/00
Boys trailing as girls widen the GCSE gap - 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
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
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."
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
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
Money 'still a barrier' for poorer students - 18/01/02
Maths students in decline - 15/02/02
Labour's continental plans for education - 16/02/02
Employers baffled by qualifications - 18/02/02
Woodhead's way to save our schools - 08/03/02
Woodhead's brave new world - 08/03/02
'Two-faced' Blair and his professors are blamed - 08/03/02
Deep cuts raise fears of two-tier university system - 08/03/02
Woodhead attacks education red tape - 10/03/02
Universities 'ignoring AS-levels' - 11/03/02
Half London's schools shut by teachers' one-day strike - 15/03/02
Parents get political over school places - 15/03/02
Spin doctors 'damage' schools - 17/03/02
85,000 teachers have never taught - 18/03/02 They have been put off by poor pay, excessive work and low public regard
University standards reports to be scrapped - 21/03/02 parents and students will no longer be able to compare the quality of universities or degree courses
Foreign teachers driven away by thuggish pupils - 29/03/02
Teachers' warning over their workload - 29/03/02
Teachers warned against "bureaucracy boycott" - 30/03/02
Angry teachers heckle Estelle Morris - 30/03/02 They heckled and slow hand-clapped the Education Secretary as she warned them against threatening industrial action
Teachers vote to boycott all national tests for pupils - 01/04/02
Treasury blocks Blair's student loans pledge - 04/04/02
Pupils quit maths 'after disaster of AS-level exams' - 06/04/02
Education chief attacks Government's 'Stalinism' - 11/04/02
'Let in state pupils with lower grades' - 12/04/02
Students 'priced out' of privatised halls - 14/04/02
Universities demand extra funding - 17/04/02
Teachers want primary tests scrapped - 19/04/02 Most teachers think primary schools will fail to meet the Government's ambitious maths and English achievement targets
University selection postcodes 'a secret' - 23/04/02
Colleges say 'we are broke' - 23/04/02
Girl boarders reverse 50-year decline - 24/04/02
More teachers come forward - 24/04/02
Education jargon 'baffles parents' - 27/04/02
£620m 'misspent' on cutting class sizes - 02/05/02
Police checks hit teacher supply - 07/05/02
Teachers' 35-hour week rejected - 08/05/02
Teachers' long working week 'must be cut soon' - 09/05/02
Best schools run by 'grey-haired revolutionaries' - 13/05/02
Exam regulator sets duff question - 15/05/02
'Silent erosion' of school curriculum - 16/05/02 Mike Tomlinson has just stepped down from Ofsted
No such thing as too clever says minister - 16/05/02
Universities 'short of more than £1bn' - 20/05/02
Top graduates for 'sink' schools - 23/05/02 The brightest graduates will be paid to teach in London's roughest schools for two years before pursuing alternative careers, under a radical scheme backed by the Government and business
School expulsions exceed 9,000 - 23/05/02 Education Secretary Estelle Morris is relaxed about the rise!
School exclusions on the rise - 23/05/02
Thousands more pupils are expelled - 24/05/02
Greater powers urged for school truancy teams - 24/05/02
Schools 'abandon' languages - 24/05/02
The overlap between schools and crime - 24/05/02
More teaching days lost to sickness - 30/05/02
Single-sex lessons get full marks from pupils - 31/05/02
Heads call for review of exam system - 31/05/02
Head teachers demand exam board's closure - 01/06/02
Softly-softly education system a disastrous failure, admits Schröder - 14/06/02
Parents must be able to set up schools, says Tory - 14/06/02
Maths ban on pupils to improve pass rates - 15/06/02
Lack of teachers harming education, Ofsted reports - 18/06/02
Parents urged to face up to truancy - 18/06/02 truancy patrols in England have caught 12,500 children out of school, half of whom were with their mother or father
Failing colleges face the axe - 20/06/02
End of 'one-size-fits-all' schools - 23/06/02
Minister's 'bargepole' jibe at comprehensives causes row - 25/06/02 Has Estelle Morris finally rejected 40 years of Labour education policy?
Morris is challenged on schools blacklist - 26/06/02
Parents lose on school appeals - 27/06/02
'Hypocrisy' of Labour over Tory son at Eton - 27/06/02
Sack for teachers who fail to spot pupils abused at home - 30/06/02
School sniffer dogs catch pupils on drugs - 30/06/02
Eton to lead top schools' revolt over league tables - 01/07/02
Hygiene rules consign school pets to history - 01/07/02
£40 a week to stay in education - 02/07/02
Fewer teenagers are 'staying on' - 02/07/02
Blair refuses to scrap AS-levels - 03/07/02
Children of violent parents may be expelled - 03/07/02
Teachers blamed as pupils slip back - 03/07/02
Poor teaching lets down 11-year-olds - 04/07/02
Private tutoring necessary to fill state school gap - 05/07/02
AS-levels 'here to stay' - 05/07/02
If only the PM cared so much for all our children - 07/07/02
Brown squeezes parents with new £1bn stealth tax - 07/07/02 to pay for children from low-income families to stay on at school
Schools' budgets may be frozen - 08/07/02
Better-off 'should pay more at university' - 11/07/02
Students fearful of more debt - 11/07/02
Concern over student debt - 11/07/02
Science lessons 'tedious and dull' - 11/07/02
GCSE science is irrelevant and boring, say MPs - 12/07/02
'Four-in-one' exam reprieved - 12/07/02
Penalties for poor hospitals and schools in Brown review - 15/07/02
Spending plans face rising demands - 15/07/02 The Secondary Heads Association has called for spending to be increased by £17bn... earlier funding increases have been absorbed by increased staff numbers... Rising costs are barely covered
Brown unveils school cash bonanza - 15/07/02
It isn't really cash for kids but billions for bureaucrats - 16/07/02 Every time large sums are produced from the Chancellor's hat, as they were in 1998 and 2000, the money has failed to materialise in school budgets
Education: Help for poor schools - 16/07/02
Heads face sack for poor exam results - 16/07/02
Top heads to be 'chief executives' - 16/07/02
School 'cash for reform' plans due - 16/07/02
Education cash brings new targets - 16/07/02
New Cambridge students 'can't write English' - 16/07/02
Schools must sack weak heads to get extra cash - 17/07/02
Council strike closes schools - 17/07/02
One million join town hall walkout - 17/07/02
Subjects given 4% of school timetable - 17/07/02
Shake-up to make maths more relevant means less algebra - 21/07/02
Blair fears middle-class anger on student aid - 11/08/02
Big rise in A-level pass rate - 14/08/02
Warning over A-level results claims - 14/08/02
Queen Elizabeth's boys show the girls they too can excel - 16/08/02
Job check in schools 'may take 4 months' - 03/09/02
History of education employee checks U-turns - 04/09/02
Labour 'fails pupils in the inner cities' - 05/09/02 No major city has met the Government's target of 50% of pupils achieving five A to C passes at GCSE
Checks delays hit college students - 10/09/02
Teacher 'kite mark' scheme delayed - 10/09/02
Teachers demand 10 per cent pay rise - 12/09/02
Ministers want colleges to scrap degree grades - 15/09/02
Inquiry into exam fixing claims - 15/09/02
University place fear in exam dispute - 16/09/02
Exams chief denies political fix - 17/09/02
Teachers' anger at A-level stand-off - 17/09/02
Inquiry into A-level grades 'fixing' - 19/09/02
Why the exams row happened - 19/09/02
Scrap A-level, says Estelle Morris's top exam adviser - 22/09/02
But then came the day when the laughter had to stop - 22/09/02
The week in which the system failed our teenagers - 22/09/02
QCA loses backing of Morris in grades row - 23/09/02
Minister agrees that A-levels could be scrapped - 23/09/02
No 10 'to blame' for exams fiasco - 23/09/02
Call for more open A-level 'fix' inquiry - 23/09/02
Examiners back heads on A-levels - 24/09/02 The inquiry into the alleged fixing of A-level grades opened yesterday with evidence from 50 senior examiners that they were pressed into marking work down
Re-marked A-level papers show that grades were changed - 26/09/02 Work that the examiners judged to be "basically sound" was downgraded to "inadequate" and given a fail grade
Morris decides on exam fiasco - 27/09/02
A-level fix 'was inevitable' - 27/09/02 How the Labour government set up Sir William Stubbs to take the blame for grade inflation
A-Levels to be re-graded - 27/09/02
University students 'lack basic maths' - 27/09/02
A-levels re-graded as watchdog is sacked - 27/09/02
Tories call for Morris resignation - 27/09/02
'It is the children who are going to suffer' - 29/09/02 The sacked head of the Government's examinations watchdog has launched a scathing attack on Labour's education policies, giving warning of "calamitous" flaws in every aspect of the school system
It wasn't me, Sir - 29/09/02 As Estelle Morris sacked the head of the exam watchdog last week, she hoped to save herself
An awkward question from the back of the class - 29/09/02 Mr Tomlinson's report is a "greywash"... Ms Morris and her colleagues still have much explaining to do
Private schools claim university bias - 30/09/02
How 68% is worth only a D grade - 01/10/02
Men behind new A-levels fiasco 'saw it coming' - 02/10/02 The way the exam was designed meant grades were bound to rise this year. So it was inevitable that the choice this summer would be between accepting significant grade inflation or robbing candidates of the grades to which they were entitled. The latter course was adopted
Secondary exam tables delayed by A-level row - 02/10/02
Blair aide sends son to fee-paying school - 02/10/02
Exams: 31 subjects affected - 02/10/02
Blair 'sorry' over exams fiasco - 03/10/02
Morris apologises for exam chaos - 15/10/02
Confidence in A-levels in tatters - 15/10/02
Angry e-mails claim exam whitewash - 15/10/02
Warning of more trouble for A-levels - 28/10/02
Higher fees: Political dynamite - 01/11/02
200,000 pupils cannot read at seven - 27/11/02
Writing on the wall - 27/11/02 a quarter of 11-year-olds leave primary school unable to read or write properly
Students march against top-ups - 04/12/02
'£40,000 needed for uni' claim - 04/12/02
Head to head: Student charges - 04/12/02
Blair seeks to calm tuition fee fears - 04/12/02
Tony's poll tax moment - 04/12/02
Blair's 'retreat' on top-ups welcomed - 05/12/02
Debt deterring would-be students - 06/12/02
Shortage of good maths teachers - 09/01/03
Schools lectured on standards - 10/01/03 Test results achieved by 11 year olds have failed to improve for three years
Duncan Smith targets Blair record - 13/01/03 accusing him of being responsible for failing the nation on crime, health and education
'Mickey Mouse' degrees attack - 13/01/03
University research split 'disastrous' - 13/01/03
Research threat angers universities - 14/01/03
Heads' 'extreme concern' on funding - 14/01/03
Students 'to face £21,000 debt' - 19/01/03
Higher university fees confirmed - 22/01/03
Williams in protest over student fees - 24/01/03
Exams not assured, watchdog says - 30/01/03
'Dumbing down' of Bard angers teachers - 08/02/03
What did the report really say? - 08/02/03
Tories push for vocational schools - 11/02/03 IDS looks to the Dutch education system as an example of how state-funded schools can operate independently
Parents warned of 'less school choice' - 13/02/03
What future for grammar schools? - 15/02/03
US teaching 'fantastic for self-esteem' - 17/02/03 Segregation by ability actually works!
Slow progress for middle years pupils - 03/03/03
U-turn over university targets - 04/03/03
Private schools 'boycott' Bristol - 04/03/03 "Bristol has been very public about a policy which unfairly discriminates against applicants from good schools, whether independent or state"
Middle-class mothers 'know best' - 12/03/03
Private schools top the A-level tables - 03/04/03
Heads threaten school remodelling plan - 04/04/03
Primary test results 'set to fall' - 07/04/03
Labour's report card - 12/04/03
Teachers' anger at 'spending cuts' - 15/04/03
'Own goal' on school funding - 17/04/03 The School Standards Minister, David Miliband, faced a hostile reception from delegates when he sought to downplay claims that there many schools with reduced budgets which were considering redundancies
School funding scheme 'incompetent' - 18/04/03
Tories want 'targets bonfire' - 21/04/03
Budget cuts and red tape are last straw for head - 23/04/03
Head's TV threat to quit over funding - 29/04/03
Heads 'more worried' over tests - 30/04/03
Boarding school pupil numbers rise - 30/04/03
£2.5bn school funding gap 'catastrophic' - 02/05/03 The NAHT believes the crisis is much worse than has so far been revealed, with three quarters of schools facing financial deficits
Targets impossible, say heads - 02/05/03
Cash-strapped schools 'going backwards' - 04/05/03
Debt fears blamed for drop-out rate - 15/05/03
Q&A: Why are lessons being cut? - 21/05/03
Bottom of league schools still fail to make grade - 25/05/03
Labour MP calls for extra cash to save school jobs - 27/05/03
Funding plan 'will split universities' - 29/05/03
Expulsions rise for second year - 29/05/03
Good schools boost house prices - 30/05/03 in the age of "Education, Education, Education," decent schools have become gold dust
Ministers accused of 'dumbing down' unis - 03/06/03
Schools 'failing 20%' of pupils - 05/06/03
'200 teachers' go over funding crisis - 05/06/03
'Grade creep' leads 86pc of students to expect a top degree - 09/06/03
'Thousands' of school job losses expected - 11/06/03 The 3 R's: redundancy, redundancy, redundancy
Parents asked to help cash-strapped school - 17/06/03
Revealed: pass marks for key exams are lowered again - 22/06/03
Top-up fees vote defeated - 23/06/03
Top marks for grammar school coaching scheme - 23/06/03
Teachers quit 'over reform overload' - 25/06/03
Two in three councils 'laying off teachers' - 28/06/03
Prince's plea to teach children about the Empire - 28/06/03
Heads want guarantees on cash - 15/07/03
School 'invoice' sent to Clarke - 15/07/03
Big rise in cost of student debt - 28/07/03
Teachers want to save A-levels - 30/07/03
Eton leads way in abandoning 'dumbed-down' GCSE exam - 04/08/03
A-level maths made easier - 07/08/03
Public schools 'boost A-level results' - 22/08/03
Funding crisis 'costs 3,500 teachers' - 28/08/03
Eton tops private school GCSE table - 29/08/03
TUC condemns top-up fees - 11/09/03
Universities 'desperate' for funds - 23/09/03
Lessons taught by non-specialists - 25/09/03
Tuition fees dog Labour - 30/09/03
Tories plan school 'passports' - 06/10/03
Jobs lost in school money crisis - 14/10/03
Cash for gifted children 'goes to below-average' - 19/10/03 Millions of pounds earmarked to help gifted children is being spent on pupils with below-average results in inner city schools, while very bright youngsters in rural areas get little support
Students rally against top-up fees - 27/10/03
Universities back A-level change - 03/11/03
Literacy drive 'fails to teach 11-year-olds basic grammar' - 16/11/03
We will continue to oppose top-up fees, says Howard - 16/11/03
Poor students 'most hit by fees' - 18/11/03
Lecturers walk out over job losses - 18/11/03
Inner city schools 'struggling' - 20/11/03
Schools crisis deepens under Labour, claims Ofsted chief - 21/11/03
Blair faces student fees grilling - 02/12/03 More than 140 Labour MPs have criticised plans to allow universities almost to triple the amount students are charged for their tuition
Blair defends student fee plans - 03/12/03 This grammar school boy isn't going to take any lessons from a public school boy on the importance of children from less privileged backgrounds gaining access to university - Michael Howard
School 'failed' bright teenager - 05/12/03
Howard renews tuition fees attack - 06/12/03
Tuition fees 'badly presented' - 08/12/03
No grants in tuition fees bill - 09/12/03
Children hit by 'weak' teaching - 09/12/03
Adverts for top-up fees attacked - 10/12/03
Ofsted team fails flagship 'beacon' school - 13/12/03
Grammar schools serve their pupils best - 17/12/03
Grammar Schools top the Performance Tables The very schools Labour has been undermining for 30 years continue to perform outstandingly well
Grammar schools add most value - 17/12/03
School exam pass marks are being lowered, says report - 18/12/03 Labour fiddled the results (again)
Top-up fees 'will damage science' - 18/12/03
Blair is losing the battle over university fees - 19/12/03
Row over part-time student fees - 19/12/03
Tories stick to scrapping fees - 22/12/03
Two children, different fees - 08/01/04
Pupils 'struggling' with spelling - 19/01/04
I will survive, Blair tells angry students - 20/01/04 but will anyone else?
Student debt 'unacceptable' - 20/01/04 Julia Prague, a 19-year-old medical student, gave the prime minister a grilling on top-up fees during a BBC Two Newsnight debate
Disruptive pupils wreck science - 20/01/04
Private schools reject 'diplomas' - 20/01/04
'Too many graduates', bosses say - 20/01/04
Student renews attack on Blair over tuition debt - 21/01/04
Student debt hits £8,000 - without top-up fees - 21/01/04
Scrap coursework and make A-levels harder, say heads - 21/01/04
Top-up fees 'to deter students' - 21/01/04 seven out of ten students agree the government is "out of touch" with their views
Howard tackles Blair on top-up fees - 21/01/04 the PM is trying to bully his MPs to break an election promise not to bring in fees
Tests changed after Bard row - 22/01/04
£1,000 to tempt physics students - 22/01/04
Bard takes centre stage again for school test - 23/01/04 The downgrading of Shakespeare in the national curriculum tests is to be reversed in response to widespread complaints
Tories work on an answer to top-up fees - 23/01/04 based on less debt for students, lower costs to the taxpayer, greater freedom for universities and no fees
Private school fees claim fails - 23/01/04
Medics 'face £64,000 study debt' - 24/01/04
What students spend their money on - 26/01/04
How we got to this point - 27/01/04 Labour's 2001 election manifesto said: "We will not introduce 'top-up' fees
Analysis: Blair's fees escape - 27/01/04
Students outraged at Commons decision - 27/01/04
Oxford union head slams fees vote - 27/01/04
Five students, five systems - 27/01/04 a look at student funding in 5 other countries
Do We Need More Graduates? - 27/01/04
Leading fee rebel to back Blair - 27/01/04
Fees vote 'cuts student choice' - 28/01/04
Fees fear for trainee teachers - 29/01/04
What about middle income students? - 31/01/04
The £900m cost of students from EU - 01/02/04
Universities fear science courses will disappear - 02/02/04
'Doomsday scenario' casts shadow over chemistry - 02/02/04 there could be as few as six departments left within ten years
More students declare bankruptcy - 03/02/04
A-levels face another shake-up - 12/02/04
Top-up fees money 'is not enough' - 12/02/04
Maths exams 'fail at all levels' - 20/02/04
Universities face week of protest - 22/02/04
Black boys under-achieve at GCSE - 24/02/04 Chinese pupils are achieving the best results of any ethnic group
Tories extend pupil passport plan - 06/03/04
Tories want best schools to grow - 08/03/04
Call to open up private schools - 08/03/04 Tony Blair has been described by a private school headmaster as "a public school toff" who had manipulated the education system to his own family's advantage
Cambridge's state school intake falls - 12/03/04
Degree grades 'show dumbing down' - 16/03/04
Islington faces bill for lower exam targets - 22/03/04
Fresh revolt over tuition fees - 24/03/04
Grammar schools have expanded - 26/03/04
University heads' plea over fees - 29/03/04
Rebels step up top-up fee battle - 30/03/04
Lines drawn for top-up fee D-Day - 31/03/04 A fresh rebellion by Labour MPs is expected
Rebels lose top-up fee protest - 31/03/04
Top-up fees rebellion fails as Bill is passed with majority of 28 - 01/04/04
Hitler wasn't real, says one in 10 historically challenged Britons - 04/04/04
Tories want poor in best schools - 05/04/04
Tories' school places shake-up - 11/04/04
Moving school 'lowers happiness' - 27/04/04
More pay full student tuition fee - 29/04/04
Head teacher exodus 'near crisis' - 30/04/04
Parents 'prefer private schools' - 26/05/04
Grammar schools denounce diploma - 10/06/04
Anger as exam board drops classics - 11/06/04
Tory leader backs grammar schools - 17/06/04
Higher fees for English students - 24/06/04
Parent choice tops Tory package - 29/06/04
UK student debt rises to £14bn - 29/07/04
Britons 'ignorant of UK history' - 05/08/04
Physics A-level loses momentum - 19/08/04
Top head attacks exam coursework - 03/09/04
Gangs who fail exams on purpose - 17/09/04 segregation would be the choice of swots and skivers alike
20,700 pupils in oversize classes - 30/09/04
Trendy teaching was 'crackers' - 05/10/04
Where there is excellence and achievement wreck it - 10/10/04
Patten attacks university targets - 14/10/04
Grading doubts over diploma plan - 20/10/04
Blair exams pledge 'a red herring' - 27/10/04
'Fatal floors' in exam scripts - 03/11/04
UK left out of world maths study - 19/11/04
Children 'failed in geography' - 24/11/04
Tomlinson: GCSEs neglect basics - 24/11/04
Failing colleges 'are a disgrace' - 29/11/04
Students paying £575 in fees - 30/11/04
Newcastle axes physics courses - 03/12/04
Why school tests omitted the UK - 07/12/04
Kelly is new education secretary - 16/12/04
What Kelly does next - 17/12/04
University confirms subject cuts - 20/12/04
Grammars shine at 'adding value' - 12/01/05
B grade for pupils who get 83pc wrong - 16/01/05
Britain's cultural revolution - 17/01/05 A-level and in turn degree courses are sharply dumbing down to accommodate ill-equipped students and give them increasingly bogus qualifications
'Inequality' on students exposed - 19/01/05
Oxford 'to cut 1,000 undergrads' - 25/01/05
Make history compulsory - Tories - 27/01/05 Many teenagers do not know about the Battle of Hastings
'Best of the best' schools named - 02/02/05
1,000 schools 'lagging behind' - 02/02/05
1.5m pupils 'denied decent education' - 03/02/05
Alarm at history 'Hitlerisation' - 04/02/05
Schemes fail to dent truancy rate - 04/02/05
University scraps maths degree - 11/02/05
Student plagiarism 'on the rise' - 11/02/05
School standard rise 'overstated' - 18/02/05
The national literacy debacle - 03/03/05
Labour adjusts test result target - 04/03/05
Black school's moral message - 07/03/05 Political correctness is just nonsense
Top head says keep science exam - 08/03/05
University places 'harder to get' - 10/03/05
LSE has quotas for state students - 10/03/05
Oxford owns up to a bias against girl applicants - 15/03/05 and those from independent schools
A better education in Africa? - 15/03/05
Universities to charge top fees - 17/03/05
Teachers' head chides Ruth Kelly - 25/03/05
Latin's 'last gasp' in state schools - 02/04/05
MPs demand reading lessons review - 07/04/05 17% of 11-year olds do not reach the required standard
Fear over poor UK language skills - 14/04/05
Graduate debts rise to £2.46bn - 14/04/05
Money worries at 11 universities - 15/04/05
'The disruption made teaching virtually impossible. I could not believe what I saw' - 24/04/05
Poorest pay for failures of state schools - 25/04/05
The grammar lesson - 25/04/05 The war against grammar schools has reached new depths under the Blair administration
Kelly insists she is right even when statistics say she is wrong - 27/04/05
Secret film of classrooms reveals world of swearing and porn - 27/04/05
Hypocrisy at the heart of Labour's education policy - 28/04/05
Labour needs to be taught a lesson - 28/04/05
Minister is booed by school heads - 01/05/05
State pupils 'urged to read easy A levels' - 10/05/05 the gap in performance between independent and state schools is widening
Students 'confused about fees' - 10/05/05
Kelly guarded over adviser Adonis - 13/05/05
Money squeeze hits adult learners - 20/05/05
Cutbacks threaten adult classes - 24/05/05
Labour faces Welsh top-up fees defeat - 24/05/05
Flagship academy is failed by Ofsted - 27/05/05
City academy failing says Ofsted - 27/05/05
Students 'struggling with maths' - 02/06/05
The pitiless universe of planet Warnock - 09/06/05
Pupils' summer absence not logged - 13/06/05 truancy figures to be fiddled
Maths 'stuck in downward spiral' - 28/06/05
Public 'misled' on city academies - 30/06/05
Most students fail to get grants - 14/07/05
Teachers say no-one should 'fail' - 19/07/05 failure will now be called "deferred success"
College-school funding gap '13%' - 21/07/05
New trained teachers out of work - 21/07/05
Graduate debt 'is underestimated' - 26/07/05
Grammar schools 'must come back' - 27/07/05 Comprehensive schools and a "one-size- fits-all" policy do not deliver high- quality education
Church schools 'a year ahead' - 28/07/05
Inspectors break up school fights - 29/07/05
Truants 'missing half a term' - 01/08/05
School drops 'tedious' maths GCSE - 04/08/05 "GCSE is nothing like the standard of O-level"
What university is going to cost - 05/08/05
Fees rise 'would deter students' - 10/08/05
Government ditches biased grammar school entry code - 14/08/05
Calls for A-levels to be tougher - 14/08/05
Students drop out of Welsh Bac - 16/08/05
A-level science slump 'must end' - 16/08/05
A-level exam is 'terminal decline' - 17/08/05
Is it finally the end for A-levels? - 17/08/05
Car repair diploma beats A-level - 18/08/05
Media studies overtakes physics - 18/08/05
Admin staff 'marking GCSE papers' - 22/08/05
School test results questioned - 23/08/05
Language exams in sharp decline - 25/08/05
'A' Levels and GCSEs 'too easy' - 25/08/05
'Whistleblower' exam marker quits - 26/08/05
Private schools' A-level success - 26/08/05
Exam board defends 47% A* grade - 09/09/05 "it was a problem paper and it just turned out that it didn't work the way it was intended to"
UK struggles in university race - 13/09/05
Oliver 'sparks school food drop' - 14/09/05
Millions spent on taxis to school - 16/09/05
Teaching assistants 'exploited' - 07/10/05
Boys unwilling to learn languages - 19/10/05
England secondary schools - 19/10/05
Fewer boys managed the 'three Rs' - 30/10/05
Tutors 'forced to inflate grades' - 31/10/05
'Blatant copying' in coursework - 02/11/05
Fewer UK university applications - 10/11/05
Gifted children 'are missing out' - 16/11/05
Tussle over student debt research - 17/11/05 The organisation for university chiefs has been accused of suppressing research on student finances during the general election. Universities UK cut "politically highly contentious" parts of a study it had commissioned
Ridings School 'inadequate' again - 18/11/05
Staff 'crisis' threatens physics - 21/11/05
Students 'buy' their way from A-levels to degrees - 23/11/05
Term-time working 'lowers grades' - 23/11/05
Urban school scheme questioned - 24/11/05
Kelly pressed on school places - 24/11/05
Primary reading set for overhaul - 01/12/05
Just a fifth of his MPs back Blair on schools - 04/12/05
'Confusion' over new GCSE targets - 05/12/05
No 10 hints at deal with rebels to save education reforms - 15/12/05
Prescott in blow to school reform - 18/12/05
Blair 'must keep' school reforms - 18/12/05
Student medics 'owe over £20,000' - 18/12/05
White Paper's selection confusion - 19/12/05
State school quotas under attack - 04/01/06
Kelly's critics not impressed - 06/01/06
Sex offender offered teaching job by Education Secretary Ruth Kelly - 08/01/06
Sex offender cleared to teach PE in school - 09/01/06
Schools 'fail a million pupils' - 11/01/06
School head recruitment 'crisis' - 11/01/06
GCSEs 'fall in improved schools' - 13/01/06
History suspended at university - 13/01/06
Sex-offender teachers row grows - 14/01/06
Letter reveals how Ruth Kelly cleared second sex offender - 15/01/06
School tables 'let off' poor performers because of ethnic background - 15/01/06
Howard adds to pressure on Kelly - 15/01/06
Science 'not for normal people' - 20/01/06
Gap in maths and science teaching - 26/01/06
'Split' over A-level maths reform - 05/02/06
New students' skills 'worsening' - 09/02/06
Pledge on ability sets 'missed' - 09/02/06
Row over fall in teacher numbers - 13/02/06
Sharp fall in university entries - 15/02/06 13,000 fewer than last year - a fall of 3.4% - as higher fees are introduced
Fall in history and classics no bad thing, says minister - 16/02/06 that explains a lot
Half of 5-year-olds failing to reach education targets - 17/02/06
Teacher training 'not sufficient' - 21/02/06
Blair: We'll end two-tier schools - 23/02/06
Student target 'not attainable' - 02/03/06
Death of the comprehensive school - 04/03/06
State teachers go private for own children - 05/03/06
Desperately seeking 11-plus success - 06/03/06
Students 'stay home to cut costs' - 09/03/06
University axes chemistry degrees - 11/03/06
Sussex University axes chemistry course - 12/03/06
Cookery lessons 'not good enough' - 14/03/06
Bill 'to cause post-16 confusion' - 15/03/06
Pupil progress targets 'perverse' - 16/03/06
Education bill 'about old scores' - 18/03/06
Rural pupils 'miss out on funds' - 19/03/06
It's not money holding back state schools, it's bureaucracy - 24/03/06
Schools spending 'slowing down' - 24/03/06
Row over 'record' school head ads - 31/03/06
Teachers face barrage of abuse every few minutes - 09/04/06
Rise in number of large classes - 27/04/06
'Hundreds' of schools lack heads - 28/04/06
Science degrees threatened - MPs - 03/05/06
O-levels are alive and well - but not in Britain - 07/06/06
Tories want more history lessons - 15/06/06
Rethink on A-level 'fail' points - 30/06/06
National learning 'grid' scrapped - 04/07/06
Gifted pupils 'still missing out' - 11/07/06
New teachers 'in wrong subjects' - 14/07/06
Examination golden age 'a myth' - 24/07/06
'Bring back grammar schools' call - 25/07/06
Private pupils 'learn key skills' - 25/07/06
'Right and wrong' lessons to end - 31/07/06
Nursery trainees 'cannot spell' - 02/08/06
Pupils 'cannot be called clever' - 03/08/06
Test focus 'hits learning skills' - 09/08/06
Schools 'letting down UK science' - 13/08/06
Row continues over exam standards - 14/08/06
Student debt increases to £13,252 - 14/08/06
Tests flummox trainee teachers - 15/08/06
Maths resurgence follows changes - 17/08/06 has it become harder or easier, I wonder...
Primary school test target missed - 24/08/06
Languages 'at point of no return' - 24/08/06
Are GCSEs easier than O-levels? - 26/08/06
Blair jeered by college students - 07/09/06
Billions spent but UK schools still fail - 13/09/06
Maths GCSE coursework is dropped - 27/09/06
Reading closes physics department - 02/10/06
Ban on coursework in nine subjects - 06/10/06
Thousands going to 'poor schools' - 07/10/06
Months after they turned children away, 'full' schools open to migrants - 08/10/06
Critics attack new science GCSE - 11/10/06
GCSE pupils can shine in English but never read a book - 14/10/06
Music education 'still a lottery' - 17/10/06
Fall in university applicants - 18/10/06
Campaigners back sacked teacher - 25/10/06
Science degree numbers 'masked' - 26/10/06
Ministers are blamed as teaching of languages at school goes into free fall - 02/11/06
Colleges may have degree powers - 15/11/06
Stalling on university admissions - 18/11/06
Reading confirms physics closure - 20/11/06
More schools judged 'inadequate' - 22/11/06
Call to adopt tougher overseas GCSE rejected - 23/11/06
Half of teacher's can't see this mistake - 25/11/06
Harder A-levels and boost for IB - 30/11/06 so many students now get top grades that the oversubscribed universities have difficulty differentiating between them
Blair's farewell to education? - 02/12/06
Cameron attacks Blair on schools - 06/12/06
Labour's greatest skill is passing the buck - 09/12/06 the "skills tsar" says it is the responsibility of employers to educate the illiterates churned out by New Labour's failed schools
Labour's tsar savages record on education - 11/12/06 It's coming very close to the time when every child will only have been to school under Labour – isn't that when the excuses end?
Adults abandon further education - 16/12/06
Oxford reformer admits defeat after vote - 20/12/06
Degrees hierarchy 'might change' - 21/12/06
Lessons in Indian history 'anti-British, inaccurate and sexually explicit' - 27/12/06
Labour MP withdraws her son from academy - 29/12/06 Ms Buck said the teaching facilities and accommodation were "appalling"
Poorer pupils benefit most from selective education - 02/01/07 Britain is running the best private schools in the world, so why are we not also running the best state schools?
76% believe in streaming pupils - 02/01/07 or the chance to send high-fliers to selective grammar schools. Almost as many people said that weaker children could also benefit from being segregated at school
Majority 'back selective schools' - 02/01/07
Job applications 'full of errors' - 03/01/07
Schools ignoring birthday of two kingdoms - 04/01/07
Boys and girls need separate classes to close gender gap - 04/01/07
Pupils fail in final two years, says minister - 05/01/07
Hidden truth behind GCSEs - 06/01/07
Floristry as good as maths in school tables - 07/01/07 Critics rounded on the tariff, describing it as "nonsense" that would make it impossible for parents to understand the league tables
Blair defends Kelly over school - 08/01/07
Right school, wrong job, Miss Kelly - 09/01/07 actually, this androgenous psychopath is a "Ms"
Cabinet and media on standby as newspapers were warned not to identify minister - 09/01/07 Opus Dei monster tries to manipulate the media like Mandelson, the other "spinopath"
Hostile ministers chip away at private sector funds and status - 09/01/07
What Labour MPs said, and what they did - 09/01/07
School catchment areas to be scrapped - 10/01/07
The truth about maths and English GCSE - 11/01/07 two out of three secondary pupils fail to pass exams in those subjects
Tables expose truth of grade inflation - 11/01/07
Schools failing to teach basics - 11/01/07
Pupils who stay on 'need better courses' - 13/01/07
So, that's one happy parent - 14/01/07 Former Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has bought her way out of the state system, and no wonder: the past week has laid bare the surreal, ever-changing world of targets, tables and tests created by Labour
Migrant English classes cuts row - 11/01/07 Proposed cuts to English language classes for immigrants contradict the government's own policies on integration
Pupils 'unable to use full stops' - 15/01/07
Britishness and the class system - 21/01/07 the British identity is hardly touched upon in the curriculum
Degree cutbacks 'creating academic deserts' - 09/02/07
A third of schools ditch history for GCSE - 11/02/07
Germans opt for British public schools - 18/02/07
What have the past 10 years of Blair been for? - 21/02/07 what Alastair Campbell so aptly termed "bog-standard" comprehensive schools flourish like weeds
Parents: Bring back the cane to restore order - 23/02/07
No lessons on the Holocaust - 03/04/07
University policies that filter out middle classes - 03/04/07
Children 'do better in grammars' - 09/04/07
MPs issue EC university warning - 29/04/07
Children 'damaged by exam factories' - 01/05/07
Straw's new vision of history 'is hypocritical' - 02/05/07
Heads warn over exam 'meltdown' - 06/05/07
Academy call for private schools - 14/05/07
'500,000 fewer' adults learning - 18/05/07
Ancient history A-level preserved - 18/05/07
11-yr-olds 'could pass exam worth 4 GCSEs' - 19/05/07 Schools are using it to get soft certificates
Exam results fall in deprived inner cities - 24/05/07
Student debts break £3 billion - 10/06/07
Language classes 'reduced to holiday phrases' - 12/06/07
Study shows grammars benefit poor pupils - 13/06/07
Abolition of grammars 'ruined poor's chances' - 21/06/07 Poor children born in 1970 had much less chance of going on to a successful working life than their counterparts born 15 years earlier
Labour gets a very poor school report - 22/06/07
Labour's record on schools 'fails' - 22/06/07 obfuscation, obfuscation, obfuscation
Physicists protest at GCSE change - 28/06/07 "The result is a fiasco that will destroy physics in England"
Funding 'curbs joined-up courses' - 29/06/07
A-levels are easier says adviser - 16/07/07
Male teachers 'help boys behave' - 30/07/07
History A-level 'could disappear' - 06/08/07
MPs warn over £45bn schools plan - 09/08/07 PFI schools launched by Blair in Clacton and Brighton are now closing
Numbers down at rebuilt schools - 09/08/07
Schools not improved, say bosses - 13/08/07
Fewer teens achieve maths target - 14/08/07
Fees 'pushing up student debts' - 14/08/07
Increase in top grades at A-level - 16/08/07 further grade inflation
Private schools widen gap at top - 16/08/07
A-level pass rate increases again - 16/08/07
Teens 'cannot function in work' - 20/08/07 many employers have to retrain school leavers in the basics they should have learned in class
University 'non-courses' attacked - 21/08/07
800,000 pupils in under-performing schools - 03/10/07
Review of grammar abolition polls - 08/10/07
Secondary schools failing pupils, says Ofsted - 17/10/07
Testing 'deprives primary pupils' - 06/11/07
School leaving age plans unveiled - 06/11/07
Grammar fights closure proposals - 07/11/07 A row is growing over plans to shut the most successful school in Stoke-on-Trent
Diplomas 'poor relation' warning - 12/11/07
Private pupils grab top courses - 27/11/07
England falls in reading league - 28/11/07 The reading performance of children in England has fallen from third to 19th in the world!!!
Ofsted: 'Serious concern' over school reforms - 30/11/07
Four in 10 primary schoolers failing three Rs - 01/12/07
Student teachers 'bullied' away from public schools - 01/12/07 left wing tutors in teacher training colleges are lying to student teachers
More expulsions of violent children overruled - 02/12/07 Consequently England's classrooms are now among the world's most violent
UK schools slip down in science - 29/11/07
Pupils aged 11 to 14 'go backwards in maths' - 07/12/07
Boarding from a tough beginning - 17/12/07
General GCSE Diploma idea dropped - 21/12/07
A GCSE in French without reading the language - 22/12/07
Government misses education goals - 20/12/07
Thousands of teachers 'leave job' - 27/12/07
School Latin rise 'an illusion' - 05/01/08
University 'soft' A-level warning - 07/01/08
Bogus university scam uncovered - 07/01/08 it has been allowed to flourish in the UK - virtually unchecked by government - for the last seven years
Failure to teach three Rs 'damaging economy' - 18/01/08
Maths A-level 'has become easier' - 18/01/08
Patriotism lessons would glorify Britain's morally dubious past, say teachers - 01/02/08
Watchdog probes 'soft A-levels' - 12/02/08
Language GCSEs 'could drop orals' - 17/02/08
Physics teacher shortage warning - 30/06/08
Past science papers stump pupils - 09/07/08
Economics 'dying out' in schools - 25/07/08 Only three economics teachers were trained on teacher training courses in the whole of England last year
Increasing number of children being taught by classroom assistants - 29/07/08
A-levels 'now two grades easier than 20 years ago' - 12/08/08
Sats marking contract is scrapped - 15/08/08
Exams ARE becoming easier: Marks required to pass Sats tests have fallen over last decade - 07/01/09
Labour sees SATs pass marks plunge for English and maths - 07/01/09
Brightest children 'failed by state school teachers who fear promoting elitism' - 29/01/09
Science lessons are failing to produce next generation of top British scientists - 21/02/09
Foreign students leaving UK debts - 26/02/09
Universities push for higher fees - 17/03/09
Half of teenagers missing out on A-level equivalents - 24/03/09
Science GCSE standards 'lowered' - 27/03/09
A-level students face larger class sizes after millions cut from budgets - 02/04/09
Crisis for new exams designed to replace GCSEs and A-levels - 25/04/09
'University A-levels' suggested - 21/05/09
Dilemma over science entitlement - 03/06/09
Students saddled with rising debts - 25/06/09
'Kick in the teeth' for students as grants are frozen - 01/07/09
University clearing places 'to plummet by two-thirds' - 01/07/09
Exam chief warns 'barmy' Ed Balls over A-level replacement - 21/07/09
Labour sell off playing fields - 29/07/09
The lunatics are running the asylum - 25/11/09
Academies accused of dumbing down - 13/12/09
Seven applications for every place at top universities - 29/01/10 Labour has announced that university budgets will be slashed by £135 million next year, on top of £600m cuts to be made from 2012
Grade fears prompt A-level exam board checks by heads - 29/01/10
University budget cuts revealed - 01/02/10
History of England starts at 1700, says university - 11/02/10 Academics have attacked a decision by a top university to scrap research into English history before 1700
Private school pupils 'being rejected from university' 12/02/10 Headmasters are blaming a shortage of university places caused by funding cuts, combined with the effect of Labour’s “social engineering” drive that prioritises bright children from under-performing comprehensives
The rejection of A-grade students by universities is demoralising for pupils - 15/02/10 Misdirected university cuts are harming the education of the brightest students
Queen invented phone, pupils say - 13/03/10 60% of 9/10-year-olds thought Sir Isaac Newton discovered fire