As a first year student working towards a degree in business and law at LCA Business School in London, it could be argued that I am a professional of tomorrow.
As a nation, we are inherently afraid of failure, while in America, people are encouraged to take risks. This is the nature of an entrepreneur, a fearless, ambitious and passionate risk taker, and I believe that we need to create more people of this nature to think big and be ambitious.
Some academy schools may be "manipulating" admissions to select and exclude certain pupils, a new report suggests. A study by the Academies Commiss...
An extra £1 billion was spent by the Government in the last two years on turning schools into academies, the spending watchdog has said. The Natio...
The government will no longer "put up" with failing primary schools. Those are the words of prime minister David Cameron after hosting the sixth Ca...
Failing schools should be handed over to private firms to run as a final attempt to raise standards, a former adviser to the Prime Minister has sugges...
Michael Gove has been blasted by Jamie Oliver for presiding over some of the "worst" school meals during his time as Education Secretary. Mr Oliver...
People commonly believe that the character of Lord Julius Nicholson in The Thick Of It is based on Andrew Adonis - or Lord Adonis to give him his prop...
At least 143 secondary schools are at risk of being labelled as failing after they were affected by the GCSE English grading fiasco. Schools could ...
The decision by Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, that Academies can appoint teachers without formal teaching qualification (QTS), was characterized by the Department of Education as no big deal, and that most teachers will continue to have QTS qualification.
The Government's decision to allow academy schools to hire unqualified teachers was condemned by a leading education expert on Wednesday who said the ...
Devaluing QTS at this time will only serve to hammer home what many people have thought for a long time - anyone can do it, and so they do. Anyone who remembers the government call for parents to fill in for teachers on strike will understand just how ridiculous the notion is.
All academies will be allowed to hire unqualified teachers in the future, the Government announced on Friday. Ministers said the move will mean sch...
Every failing primary school is to be turned into an academy, Michael Gove announced on Tuesday. The Education Secretary said it was time to "accel...
Parents and teachers at a school resisting academy status will visit Westminster to urge Education Secretary Michael Gove to pay the primary a visit. ...
Almost half of schools inspected in the first three months of this year were found to be not good enough, new figures show. Statistics published by...
It seems the Conservatives are behind with the times as well as in the opinion polls after Michael Gove claimed the reason he sent private emails to h...
More than 87,000 incidents of racist bullying have been reported in schools between 2007 and 2011, it has been revealed, but the real concern is those...
Striking teachers and parents took part in a protest on Tuesday outside a school which is resisting academy status. Downhills Primary School in Har...
Weak maths students receive the worst teaching, an Ofsted report has revealed. The publication, released on Tuesday, found pupils in lower ability ...
Many of the government's academies are revamping the curriculum, but fewer are changing term times or the length of the school day - contrary to popul...
Academies are making money out of selling junk food which the government has banned in other schools, it has been claimed. An independent study pub...
An increasing number of children are unable to cope with the academic demands of starting school because of poor parenting, according to the schools c...
A school in Scotland has ordered its teaching staff to declare presents from pupils in order to prevent bribes from parents, reigniting the debate of ...
David Cameron has suggested pupils should stand up when their teachers enter the classroom but his idea has been criticised by both teachers and stude...
