If 81.8% of parents think Grammar schools are "much better" than other state schools and 62.5% of parents think there should be more Grammar schools, is it surprising that some parents prepare their children for the 11+!?! Does the BBC have an educational agenda opposing Grammar schools when so many BBC employees have been privately educated?

Following on from my post about schools and social mobility the other day, I saw an item on the news yesterday (probably BBC, but it may have been ITV or even Sky - I can't remember) in which they reported that social mobility was worse now than it was in the fifties. The report made several references to education - but didn't mention grammar schools once. The same report also featured ...

Every school in England could be rated on a scale of A to E under plans published today to introduce a New York style "report card" for schools. The schools secretary Ed Balls has published proposals on how the report card, first announced as part of the decision to scrap Sats for 14-year-olds in the summer, would work. The report card would pull together all the information currently available, o...

A BBC partnership with Channel 4 would be damaging for the industry, making BBC Worldwide too commercially "aggressive", says a leaked parliamentary report. The draft House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee report examining BBC Worldwide's activities expresses scepticism about a merger. "There is a danger that it would make [BBC] Worldwide even more aggressively commercial,...

The report launched by the Runnymede Trust today, Right to Divide? Faith Schools and Community Cohesion’, is serious, balanced and well researched. The Right to Divide report recommends that faith schools should: * End selection on the basis of faith * Give children a greater say in how the school is run * Make broad-based RE lessons

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...

The following piece also appears on the Guardian's Comment is Free website.The interim report by the schools adjudicator Philip Hunter into claims that faith schools have been breaking laws aimed at making admissions fairer is due with ministers next month. Ed Balls ordered the probe after the Department for Children, Schools and Families research revealed that a "significant number" of schools in...

Parents who report unruly pupils to the authorities will help poorly performing schools improve discipline Schools Secretary Ed Balls has told MPs.

Some schools waste money, according to a report (read this). But isn't the report itself the biggest waste of money - I could have told you this for free, as indeed could most of the people who work in schools?

Millions of pounds of taxpayers' money is being wasted on schools and children's services, an internal government report suggests.