ARK Schools, one of the leading City Academy providers, has just release another amazing set of results with GCSE passes 11 percentage points higher in 2011 than were achieved in 2010. This is staggering progress, given that these schools are serving the same neighbourhoods with the same demographics as the state schools which they replaced. It is also a reminder that the City Academy programme, s...

Concerns raised in Whitehall that state schools moving outside the local authority system are not being adequately supervised by officials

Another testing day for the government, as we shift from the autumn statement to a national strike. It will certainly be more noticeable than the industrial action in June. Some 2 million public sector workers will be involved. According to the schools minister Nick Gibb, around 75 per cent of state schools will be closed. And on top of that, airport queues will lengthen; non-emergency operations ...

The Education Secretary promises to transform state schools and create more academies and free schools.

Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, promised to transform state schools by promoting an "unashamedly elitist" approach and creating more academies and free schools.

Its time for the Radio 4 Today program panic about social mobility again. Guess what ? All the fixes, fiddles and plain bodges to get children who's education has failed at state schools into top Universities isn't fitting the targets which have been dreamed up. They'll try anything - scholarships ( free money for some people taken from others ), summer schools, putting out informat...

Prime Minister David Cameron accuses a number of state schools in England - particularly in more affluent areas - of "coasting".

Should state schools be able to make a profit? We asked this of you on our Coffee House poll this week. 71 per cent of you said yes, and with good reason. Profit-seeking companies expand when demand is strong: that’s what you want good schools to do. But successful schools not seeking profit have no incentive to expand: it’s an easier life just to let the waiting list grow and jack up ...

Should state schools be able to make a profit? We asked this of you on our Coffee House poll this week. 71 per cent of you said yes, and with good reason. Profit-seeking companies expand when demand is strong: that’s what you want good schools to do. But successful schools not seeking profit have no incentive to expand: it’s an easier life just to let the waiting list grow and jack up ...

Job centres and courts are being hit and about half of all state schools in England and Wales affected as UK public sector workers stage a 24-hour strike.