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Polish immigrants 'improve school scores'
The influx of Polish immigrants after 2005 boosted the performance of native children in school, a new study has found.
Poor teachers should be paid less, say MPs
'Unlawful' school exclusions revealed
Truants' parents face benefits fine
Poor teachers should be paid less, say MPs
The government should go ahead with its plans to introduce "payment by results" for teachers to weed out those whose students perform poorly, say MPs.
Truants' parents face benefits fine
Parents of truanting children are to be fined from their child benefit under new measures to increase school attendance announced today.
Universities to play larger role in A-levels
Proposals to give universities more influence over the structure of A-levels are being met with a mixed response by education professionals.
'Unlawful' school exclusions revealed
Hundreds of schools across England have been unlawfully disallowing children from attending school, it has been revealed today.
Gove takes on adoption bureaucracy
The coalition’s proposals to tackle bureaucracy slowing down the adoption system are being published today.
Adopting 'doesn't need perfect match'
The coalition is set to make the adoption process much easier, David Cameron will tell a children's centre in London later.
Better safe than sorry? Care applications still rising after Baby P
Social workers are putting more and more children in care in the wake of the Baby P case, figures out today show.
Apprentices 'just as important as graduates'
"Technical excellence" should be placed on a par with "academic prowess" in Britain's rebalanced economy, David Cameron has said.
'Satisfactory' not good enough for England's schools
Schools watchdog Ofsted is scrapping its 'satisfactory' rating in a bid to improve coasting schools.
Gove paves way for purge of the teachers
Headteachers will find it much easier to get rid of poorly performing teachers under a shakeup of rules from Michael Gove.
'Bored' pupils liberated in ICT lessons
British schoolchildren are to be encouraged to embrace their inner nerd through changes to the ICT curriculum.
New Ofsted boss backs school commissioners
The schools watchdog's new head has called for the introduction of apolitical local education chiefs.
Victory for Lib Dems as pupil fund boosted
The coalition is expanding its pupil premium, as part of a bid to narrow educational attainment between the richest and poorest in society.
University applications down 13% following fees increase
The first evidence has emerged of a drop in university applications following the increase in tuition fees.
Teaching union votes to strike
Teachers belonging to the largest teachers' union have voted to strike later this month.
More toddlers to get free early education
One hundred and forty thousand disadvantaged two-year-olds could gain access to 15 hours a week of free early education, according to new government plans.
Only 24 arrests at tuition fee march
Today's tuition fee protest through central London appears to have passed off without violence.
Headteachers set to strike for first time ever
Headteachers have voted for strike action for the first time ever later, but union chiefs say it is still "not too late" to resolve the public sector pensions impasse.
Don't get violent, tuition fee protesters told
Universities minister David Willetts has appealed to tuition fee protesters to avoid violence in Wednesday's upcoming protest.
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