UK climbs rankings for maths, science and reading – but students are ‘less happy’
Experts predict there is little chance of the UK becoming one of the top-performing countries.
Tag: education
Corbyn hits the Tories with a knockout blow that says everything we need to know about his priorities
Labour has just unleashed some powerful pledges on its National Education Service. And in one knockout sentence, party leader Jeremy ...
Most state schools in England will still ‘be worse off in 2020 than in 2015’ despite government promises
Ministers announced plans last month to invest an extra £7.1 billion in schools in England over the next three years.
You know the school system is broken when children are put into isolation for wearing the wrong shoes
Children across the UK have recently returned to school after the summer holidays. And with the beginning of the new ...
Conservative Party caught out by Facebook spreading fake news online
Facebook has caught the Conservative Party's official page changing a BBC headline to push its propaganda. And the social media ...
UK has one of youngest teaching workforces among leading economies
The report looked at the state of education systems across 36 OECD nations and economies.
Six words from Jeremy Corbyn sum up the the horrific legacy of the Conservative government
His comments come after the Children’s Commissioner estimated there could be more than 210,000 youngsters without a permanent home in ...
Boris Johnson gets properly schooled after tweeting about GCSE results day
On 22 August, teenagers received the results of their GCSEs. So PM Boris Johnson marked the occasion by tweeting: https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1164437406583525376?s=20 ...
Girls closing achievement gap in maths and physics
The figures come in the same year that female entries for GCSE computer science rose by 14%.
Angela Rayner slams ‘this government’s failure’ for the poorest children
New research has revealed the "stark unfairness" that the most disadvantaged children face in schools. Labour's shadow education secretary Angela ...
A-levels ‘milestone’ hailed as more girls than boys take science
Results show the proportion of entries awarded at least an A grade has fallen to the lowest in more than ...
Angela Rayner takes Tories to task over ‘toxic, eye-watering debts’
Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner has slammed "the current broken system" of higher education loans. She blames Conservative-led governments for ...
Two-thirds of Boris Johnson’s Cabinet were privately educated, research says
Research suggests the proportion of former independent school pupils in Boris Johnson’s Cabinet is nearly twice that of Theresa May’s ...
Poll shows majority backing for LGBTQI+ relationship education in schools
Most people also supported individuals being able to self-identify their gender as one other than that in which they were ...
Almost half of UK universities and colleges see drop in student satisfaction
Analysis of the latest National Student Survey shows almost half of universities and colleges have seen a fall in satisfaction.
Private education is like a queue jump ticket at Thorpe Park. It’s time Labour pledged to end it, completely.
What do fast-track rollercoaster tickets and private education have in common? Both allow a system where those with money can ...
High Court told of ‘genuine crisis’ in special educational needs funding
Three families are bringing a landmark legal challenge against the Government over what they say is ‘manifestly insufficient’ funding.
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