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One In Six Young People Now Classed As 'Neets'

PA | Posted 23.02.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Almost a million young people are not in school, work or training, official figures show. One in six 16 to 24-year-olds is now considered "NEET" (n...

Teenagers Lose Tuition Fee Case

Posted 17.02.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Two students who took the government to court after arguing that the tuition fee increase broke human rights laws have lost their case. Lawyers for...

Judges To Rule If Government's Tuition Fees Increase Is Illegal

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 17.02.2012 | UK Universities & Education

UPDATE: Katy Moore and Callum Hurley "partially win" their High Court case over tuition fee increase, the BBC is reporting. Two teenagers who took ...

Free School Meal Confusion Schools' Fault... Or Is It Government's Fault?

PA/Huffington Post | Posted 16.02.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Schools are asking poorer parents to sign up for free school meals even if they don't intend to use them in order to boost funding, campaigners claime...

School In 'Illegal' Academy War With Gove To Be Inspected By Ofsted

Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 17.01.2012 | UK Universities & Education

The primary school claiming Michael Gove is illegally forcing academy status onto it will be inspected by Ofsted to reassess their classroom standards...

Michael Gove Defends Office In Private Emails Row

PA/Huffington Post | Posted 16.01.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Education Secretary Michael Gove has insisted his officials had acted with the "highest standards of propriety" following claims government business w...

Teaching Union Rejects Pension Deal

Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 06.01.2012 | UK Universities & Education

One of the UK's largest teaching unions has rejected the government's proposals for the reform of the teachers' pension scheme. The National Associ...

Only 17 Teachers Sacked For Incompetence In The Past Decade, Figures Show

PA | Posted 30.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education

More than 200 school teachers have been thrown out of the profession in the past decade, official figures have revealed. Since 2001, 228 have been ...

Labour Table Questions In Attempt To Expose Gove Private Email Scandal

Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 19.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education

In a bid to ascertain the full extent of the use of private email accounts for official business between Michael Gove and officials at the Department ...

One In 10 Primary Schools 'Failing' To Teach Basics

PA | Posted 15.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education

The Government has vowed to tackle "chronic" under-performance in primary education as official figures showed that more than 1,000 schools are failin...

First Round Of £2m Teaching Scholarships Announced

PA | Posted 12.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education

The first round of successful bids to the Government's new £2 million scholarship scheme for teachers has been announced by ministers. The Nationa...

Headteacher Qualifications To Be Optional

PA | Posted 07.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education

A headteaching qualification which is currently required to take charge of state schools in England will no longer be compulsory, the Government says....

Church School Accused Of 'Emotionally Blackmailing' Parents For Cash

Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 22.11.2011 | UK Universities & Education

A Church of England school is being investigated by governors after parents complained they were being "emotionally blackmailed" by teachers to hand o...

Football Club Given Go-Ahead To Open Free School

Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 15.11.2011 | UK Universities & Education

Everton Football Club has been granted permission by the government to open a Free School - making it the first Premier League club in the country to ...

'Can He Speak English?' Westminster Official Asks Welsh Teacher

Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 10.01.2012 | UK Universities & Education

A Welsh teaching union leader was left reeling from a question posed by a Department for Education official regarding whether or not her predecessor, ...

'Unnecessary' Reading Tests A 'Waste Of Money', Say Experts

PA | Posted 28.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education

The Government's new reading test for six-year-olds is a waste of taxpayers' money that will fail to identify youngsters' needs, literacy experts have...

League Table Which Sees 'Horse Care' Worth Four GCSEs To Be Shaken Up

PA | Posted 27.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education

Thousands of vocational qualifications are set to be axed from school league tables under a major shake-up of the system. It is understood that onl...

Teachers Descend On Parliament To Protest Against Pensions

PA | Posted 25.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education

Thousands of teachers and lecturers are descending on Parliament to protest against planned Government changes to their pensions. Teaching unions h...

Children With Special Educational Needs More Likely To Be Out Of Work

PA | Posted 19.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education

Young people with special educational needs are three times more likely to be out of school, work, or training than their peers, official figures sugg...

Money Squeeze Could Put Schools In The Red And Hit Academic Performance

PA | Posted 19.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education

Financial pressures may put more schools in the red, which could lead to a drop in achievement, the spending watchdog has found. If schools struggl...

Schools Forced To Take Responsibility For Excluded Children

Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 16.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education

Schools will be forced to take responsibility for pupils they expel in a new trial piloted by the government. The new scheme was revealed on Monday...