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?

Half way through his coffee as he enters the briefing room, the Minister for Schools tells me he is a "cup half full, not half empty" kind of guy. Here to announce the 2008 Sats results after the marking fiasco of recent months, can Jim Knight convince journalists the situation was indeed half full and not half empty? "It's just like being in an exam", he remarks as 20 silent reporters lift u...

Half way through his coffee as he enters the briefing room, the Minister for Schools tells me he is a "cup half full, not half empty" kind of guy. Here to announce the 2008 Sats results after the marking fiasco of recent months, can Jim Knight convince journalists the situation was indeed half full and not half empty? "It's just like being in an exam", he remarks as 20 silent reporters lift u...

Nearly half of Scotland's primary schools are still not meeting the target of two hours of PE a week, according to new statistics published by the Scottish Government.

Did he have a privileged education? You bet he did. He went to Haverstock, one of those schools that are called comprehensives in much the way that some private schools (and a few comps) are called grammar schools for historical reasons. Haverstock is (like, say, the London Oratory) one of those half a dozen or so London private schools which have the effrontery to send their bills to the taxpayer...

It should have been a national scandal. In 1997 half of secondary schools failed to meet what we now say is our minimum acceptable standard.

Around half of Wales' schools are set to fully or partially close on Thursday as up to 20,000 teachers walk out in a protest over changes to their pensions.

Marcia Neal, a retired high school teacher, is seeking a seat on the Colorado State Board of Education. Her diagnosis of Colorado's education system: "The top half of the students are well-educated, the bottom half receive extra help, but the middle half we are leaving out."

Many people say that the poll tax funded BBC no longer matters - but I do not agree. The BBC matters less than it once did, but it (or rather parts of it) is still considered a source of serious discussion - and things said on the BBC go into the schools and colleges (via teachers and university lecturers - the sort of people who still actually listen to things like BBC Radio Four) and...

Ministers have agreed the schools budget for England and will claim schools will be protected from across-the-board cuts, the BBC has learnt.