Parents will have more rights over their children's education - and the best heads will run chains of schools, in new education plans.

One of the most disappointing things about this Labour government has been its pandering to the religious of all persuasions over education, although they seem to be re-orientating themselves. Here's more evidence that faith schools are a bad idea: ?Our findings add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that the more contact children have with

From LifeSiteNews By Hilary White An “inclusive” education means that which respects the rights of parents to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children, a Vatican Cardinal told the U.N.’s International Conference on Education last week. Citing the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See's permanent ob...

Throughout its years in government - from Tony Blair's famous "Education, education, education" speech to the more recent "Every Child Matters" programme - Labour has claimed to champion the needs of the younger generation. For the 2,000 children who are sent to UK immigration detention centres every year, however, these claims ring hollow. These children are torn from their homes, their comm...

‘Making sure children are safe, well and receive a good education is our most serious responsibility… However, there are concerns that some children are not receiving the education they need. And in some extreme cases, home education could be used as a cover for abuse. We cannot allow this to happen and are committed to doing all we can to ensure children are safe, wherever they are e...

The government has announced a new commitment to equal rights for asylum-seeking children. Now they must put it into practice The government has taken an important step towards a more humane immigration system for children. At a meeting with the UN's Committee on the Rights of the Child on 23 September, it announced that it would sign the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in fu...

The A-Level pass rate has risen for the 28th successive year. Debasing the coinage. It's what governments do....

Alan Forrester is none too impressed with the evident wish of the state to stamp out any alternatives to state directed indoctrination The government has recently published a review on home education written by Graham Badman in which he expresses a laudable concern for free speech for children: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) gives children and young people over fo...

The news that Ed Balls will force 15 year olds to have at least one year of mandatory sex education in schools has re-opened that old debate – who should provide children’s sex education? Personally, I doubt whether teachers or parents are better suited to the task, as both use either clinical candour, which children find hilarious, or a stream of inscrutable euphemisms. The wider deba...

Urgent campaign action Farzad Kamangar is an Iranian teacher, unionist and human rights activist, charged by the Revolutionary Court of Iran with being a terrorist (through alleged links to the PKK) and sentenced to death on no convincing evidence. The international teachers’ union federation, Education International, has learned that Farzad has been taken from his political prisoner’s...