As the whole saga untangles, we are delighted that art and design will be retained in the National Curriculum, and that its importance both to the economy and as a tool to broaden pupils' grasp of the world around them has been recognised.

Whilst the initial plans to implement the EBacc were incredibly alarming, the loud and very public backlash also proved that Britain is proud to be the cultural capital of the world. We must now keep this momentum going and ensure that our teachers are delivering the arts in the classroom with as much passion and creativity as possible.

It is a puzzling aspect of modern politics that the more persistently a minister is entreated to change their mind on an issue, the greater the crowing if he or she does indeed perform an about face.

Education secretary Michael Gove has confirmed he is not pressing ahead with plans to scrap GCSEs, telling the Commons on Thursday his proposals were ...

A generation of girls is still being brought up to believe that raising children is more important than their own ambitions, a leading headmistress wa...

Michael Gove, a scholarship pupil at the selective Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen, clearly regards his own educational experience as a template for the rest of us. It worked for me, the thinking goes, so it ought to work for everyone else too.

Through utilising imaginative methods of learning, we can ensure all children are provided with the equal opportunities to achieve and learn. This is increasingly important as the number of children eligible for free school meals, or children who have English as an Additional Language is on the rise in our primary schools.

The decision to leave arts subjects out of the English baccalaureate could destroy Britain's creative economy, according to leading arts figures. T...

Less than one in four teachers are in favour of the government's plans to scrap GCSEs and replace them with a new English Baccalaureate Certificate, a...

Teachers are under fire. The Chief Inspector of Schools in England has commented that, if teachers want to receive pay rises, they should work longer hours, staying on in school after the final bell has gone each afternoon.

We don't know what education is and, as a consequence, we do not know what debate means. Debate is at the heart of education and if there is a crisis about one there is a crisis about the other.

As a teenager I learned pretty swiftly that exam boards didn't care if you could write a novel on photosynthesis or recite the periodic table backwards while gargling marmite - if you didn't bone up on past papers or use 'key words', your knowledge was useless.

Where have we gone so wrong when Michael Gove acknowledges only two kinds of education - traditional (good) and progressive (bad) - and insists on turning the clock back to a form of testing that while having some benefits (rigour, an ability to discriminate amongst the 'brightest' ) self-evidently entails severe costs?

Not an easy afternoon for Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg, who had to stand up and respond to Michael Gove's heavily-trailed announcement tha...

GCSE exams are to be replaced by a qualification known as the English Baccalaureate Certificate, Nick Clegg and Michael Gove have said. Writing in ...

Middle class working parents are increasingly relying on private schools to bring up their children as they are too busy to do it themselves, accordin...

Pupils should be made to study dance and drama up to the age of 16, amid concerns England's cultural education is still "patchy", a government-commiss...

Faith groups and politicians will join forces in a bid to protect Religious Education in schools and promote its value to young people. The creatio...

Labour's shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg has publicly backed the English baccalaureate (Ebacc), saying they may reverse the decline in the nu...