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

On the BBC / Nu Labour alliance’s R4 ‘Today’ program they are doing the sex education thing to death. Pointing out that more under 18’s get pregnant in the UK than elsewhere in Europe, the debate is, apparently, do we need; Compulsory sex education More compulsory sex education Even more compulsory sex education. This is a perfect example of

Data was released this week showing a steep increase in the number of young people in this country with sexually transmitted infections. The usual debate has ensued, relating to whether this is due to weaknesses in sex education, or whether, on the contrary, it is to do with too much sex education.

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 ...

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...

The sex education fetish so beloved of the political left is manifest in the news today that the government is expected to announce later that sex and relationship lessons will be made compulsory in primary and secondary schools in England. Yes sir - it's REAL important that we provide kids as young as five years olds with a basic insight into full-on sex, straight or gay, naturally. So a tea...

A group of MPs has called on the government to make sex education compulsory for primary school pupils.

MPs back a government move to allow sex education to be taught in England in a way that "reflects" a school's "religious character".

The government is accused of doing a U-turn over compulsory sex education in faith schools.

Sex education will be given to children as young as five in some schools in a bid to lower the teenage pregnancy rate.