At about lunch time I wondered, on hearing radio 4 explain how Capita had a contract to enforce run the National Literacy and Numeracy scheme if saving money might also be a motive for Labour. But then I heard Ed Balls being interviewed and my memory of that interview was he promised to pass the money ( which would be "ring fenced" on to schools to do the same job ). Now I'm not quite sure wh...

Ed Balls will give more money to failing secondary schools in areas with an 11-plus test. Schools are already assessed for more help based on their GCSE results, but now extra money will be made available for grammar school areas, because those who fail the 11-plus feel upset, or something. Balls said: Non-selective pupils frequently have a

Ed Balls is a weapons-grade fucking cunt: Schools are being given advice on how to prevent pupils becoming drawn to violent extremism and terrorism. Guidelines are being made available to primary and secondary schools in England to help them discuss the issues surrounding extremist views.WHAT THE FUCK???!!? Schools Secretary Ed Balls said schools could play a "key role" in getting young people to ...

Ed Balls MP, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary, speaking to Labour Party Conference today, said: Conference Today - all across our country - millions of children are going to school no longer putting up with leaking roofs or peeling walls… …but instead going to one of the 4,000 brand new or fully refurbished schools built in the last thirteen years by our Labour government. So...

Schools which fail to tackle bad behaviour risk being punished by the education watchdog Ed Balls the Children's Secretary will announce.

Ed Balls launched a fresh attack on grammar schools yesterday accusing them of condemning many children to "failure".

Ed Balls has promised to take action against faith schools that pursue covert selection at the Fabian Society question time fringe debate. According to the Fabians' own report on the debate: "Schools secretary Ed Balls pledged to put faith schools...

Underperforming schools face a raft of new "interventionist" measures to bring them up to scratch Ed Balls the Schools Secretary will announce this week.

Considering the fiscal crisis we face, this revelation in Andrew Rawnsley's column is particularly dispiriting: "[Gordon Brown] has been egged on by Ed Balls [to make more spending promises], partly because the schools secretary is also obsessed with that old dividing line, partly because he wanted to be able to boast that he had won more money for his department. I am reliably told that...

Ed Balls will consult on the plan to make finance and economics compulsory at schools as the government aims to ensure the next generation is better at managing money