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

Children, Schools and Families - This annual Volume provides statistics on UK education and training including schools, post-compulsory education and training, and qualifications and destinations, also education expenditure and population numbers.

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

Sex education is to be made a compulsory part of the national curriculum in primary and secondary schools under government plans to cut teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. A new personal, social and health education (PSHE) curriculum, expected by 2010, will include compulsory sex and relationships education as well as better advice warning children against drugs and alcohol. Childr...

‘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...

From The Greenville News By Ron Barnett When Kristin Maguire of Clemson takes on the chairmanship of the state Board of Education this month, she faces one obvious question: Why should a mother who home-schools her children lead the policy-making body for the public school system?She dismisses that line of inquiry by saying she doesn’t want to talk about her children. “I think my nine ...

Can someone help me out, please? The Treasury's coffers are empty. The last thing the Chancellor needs is greater demand for public spending - say, education spending. So why then is the government embarked on a war against private schools - a war that, if successful, will only result in private schools hiking their fees to pay for state-compelled bursaries, thereby forcing many parents to pu...

Some school kids playing truant Despite the dumbing down of the exams to the point where some leading independent schools have dropped them in favour of international exams, figures reveal that nearly 50% of children from poorer backgrounds are failing to pass a single GCSE at "C". There are also record rates for truancy. This despite Phoney's "Education, Education, Education!" pledge, and Go...

There have been many debates over faith schools, what should be taught in schools, what should be worn in schools, and the suggestion from Ken Livingstone's closest ally (what lovely people he hangs around with) that racial segregation would be in order. All these issues affect children already in education, but what about those not in the school system? Johann Hari reminds us about them. His...

HOW nice it is to find I'm not the only lunatic who thinks that sex education in schools is a disastrous policy and that it's parents who are best placed to decide what their children learn, when they learn it and how they go about learning it - Judged by its results – not a bad way of judging – sex education has been an utter failure. The increase in sex education ...