The vested interests are up in arms about Conservative plans to improve education by freeing good performing primary schools. Catch a load of the NASWT's Chris Keates: "Having already announced academies will be the norm for secondary schools, this proposal for primary schools completes the Tories' blueprint for the dismantling of state education.There is no evidence that severing the li...

• Government plans include sex education for all pupils • Catholic schools welcome clause on teaching 'values' Sex education is to be made compulsory in all state schools in England but faith schools will also be free to preach against sex outside marriage and homosexuality, under government proposals. The plans to make personal, social and health education (PSHE) compulsory fr...

Education is the area where the Cameron agenda inspires most. The supply-side revolution the Tories are planning to enable, will transform education for the better in this country. This morning, the Tories launched the education section of their draft manifesto at the Walworth Academy in south London, one of the ARK schools.  The event was memorable for a compelling performance by Michael Gov...

Ed Balls, Labour's Schools Secretary responding to comments from the Conservative leader of Kent County Council and Conservative Cabinet Member for schools in Hampshire said: "These leading Conservative councillors with real experience of education have let the cat out of the bag and confirmed what we and educational experts have been saying all along. "The only way David Cameron and Michael ...

Shadow Education Secretary Andy Burnham MP responding to the a WMS on the Education Endowment Fund announced today, said:

Michael Gove, the education secretary, is set to postpone plans to rebuild more than 700 schools across Conservative constituencies.

The Welsh Conservatives have unveiled their big idea in the field of education this morning, free schools. Well yes, I know that school education has been free for a very long time but this is not what they are getting at. The plan is to set up schools directly funded by the Welsh Assembly Government so as to give them the freedom to make their own decisions. However, all schools will have to abid...

My heart soared when, talking on the phone to Michael Gove earlier in the week, he mentioned that he was in Stockholm. Michael Gove plans to allow for the creation of 3,000 schools "Please tell me that you're there to study their education system, Michael." "Yes, we've been looking at schools all week". The Conservative Party's benign interest in Swedish schools is arguably the sing...

Nick Clegg today set out the importance of early years education in tackling inequality in a speech to the Salvation Army. Here’s how Politics.co.uk reports it: Nick Clegg has placed inequality firmly at the centre of the Liberal Democrat’s education policy and attacked the Tories for not costing their plans for schools. In a keynote speech

The pass mark for GSCE examinations would be doubled under Conservative education plans to toughen education standards the shadow schools secretary has disclosed in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.