Education
New TV will raise status of teachers
The devalued status of Thai teachers has been a significant and growing problem for years. A similar phenomenon was once a problem in England, but according to a British educational innovator, things have changed and the quality of teachers in Eng...
State school headteacher enjoyed £130,000 in 'City-style' bonuses
State schools were yesterday accused of embracing a City-style salary 'gold rush' after it emerged that a comprehensive paid its head £130,000 in bonuses over two years.
New curriculum to change how Scottish pupils study
Scottish pupils are to learn traditional subjects by applying them to the study of broad topics - such as flight, the oceans, or France - as part of a new £23million school Curriculum for Excellence.
Scotland's universities to share £1billion funding pot
Scotland's universities are to share a billion pounds of public funding, including more than £100million for working towards the SNP administration's priorities.
Education unions plan 2010 Sats boycott
Teachers are threatening to bring the Sats system in England to a halt by boycotting next year's tests.
Anger over education announcements
A Scottish minister came under fire from Labour who accused her of announcing a £20 million spending boost on education for the fourth time.
Learning and Skills Council funding crisis disaster for colleges
Dozens of colleges have been left with unfinished building projects and bills for millions of pounds after a government agency promised them more money than it had.
Vice-chancellors' salaries on a par with prime minister
The pay of university vice-chancellors has soared to an average of £194,000, nearly equalling the prime minister's, it was revealed today as students protested against the threat of higher tuition fees.
Nearly half of English Sats grades 'wrong'
Nearly half of the grades awarded for some Sats papers could be wrong, according to research by the government's exams agency that prompted calls for the controversial tests taken by every 11-year-old in England to be scrapped immediately.
Students 'graduating from university with poorly paid jobs'
Students risk being left in debt for decades after a study found many were leaving university with poorly paid jobs.
Cambridge insists on new A-level star grade
Cambridge university is to combat exam grade inflation by demanding at least one A* - the new top A-level grade to be introduced next year - from the vast majority of its potential students.
Brown's pledge to give all children an education
The world's richest countries are to set up an international crisis fund to help support the poorest nations through the global recession, Gordon Brown said yesterday.
Parents told to appeal if children fail to enter favoured schools
The new chief adjudicator for schools, Ian Craig, has urged parents who are unhappy with the school allocated to their child to appeal to overturn the decision.
Poor still shunning universities
The government has given universities £392m to get more working class youngsters in England to attend but progress has been slow, MPs say.
Working class 'has lower IQ'
The working classes have lower IQs than those from wealthier backgrounds and should not be expected to win places at top universities, an academic has claimed. Bruce Charlton, reader in evolutionary psychiatry at Newcastle University, suggested th...
Every pupil's dream: the exam with answers on back
It sounds like every student's dream - turning over an exam paper and finding the answers on the back. But that was what happened to 12,000 lucky British teenagers when they sat their GCSE music exam last week.
British teachers mull ending homework for pupils
Homework should be scrapped for primary school children because the pressure to complete assignments makes pupils "unhappy and anxious", say teachers. A Royal Commission should also investigate why so many children dislike school, the Association ...