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Parents want default porn block, after all
The number of parents supporting a default ban on all pornographic websites has jumped, according to new research.
Gove defends 'Mr Men' speech: 'I have every right'
'Chaos and incompetence': Clegg makes Tory childcare minister wriggle
Childcare: Coalition's helping hand to rich parents
Gove defends 'Mr Men' speech: 'I have every right'
Michael Gove has insisted he has the right to force children away from popular books like Twilight in the search for "higher standards".
'Chaos and incompetence': Clegg makes Tory childcare minister wriggle
Education minister Liz Truss has conceded the coalition's childcare plans remain up in the air after Nick Clegg's intervention yesterday.
Longer school day: Permanent detention for everyone?
Michael Gove wants to extend the school day and shorten holidays in order to modernise the '19th century' British education system.
Childcare: Coalition's helping hand to rich parents
The coalition is trumpeting its childcare support package, but campaigners have expressed bafflement that couples with a joint income of £299,999 will benefit.
Leading by example: Gove bullies MPs over bullying allegations
Michael Gove has shrugged off allegations that his special advisers bullied civil servants in his department, in a bitterly fought committee session which proved frustrating for both sides.
End of the golden boy: Gove humiliated in new coalition U-turn
Michael Gove's reputation as Cabinet's golden boy took a severe hammering this morning, as he announced a humiliating retreat on his ambitious plans for GCSEs to the Commons.
Making Cameron think again on student immigration
The chairmen of five parliamentary committees have teamed up to demand David Cameron remove international students from the net migration statistics.
Alien sex view trapping young in 'porn prison'
Teachers and parents are losing the battle again the "porn version" of sexuality now "swamping" British life, Diane Abbott will say in a speech today.
Gay marriage: Schools are the new battleground
Opponents of gay marriage took the battle to schools today, with a letter to every state secondary school in England and Wales suggesting they will be forced to teach that gay and heterosexual relationships are equal.
Coalition's childcare boost under threat
The coalition's plans to help working parents with universal childcare costs are already running into trouble.
Take your pick: Ministers open up fostering process
Prospective foster parents are to be given more chances to choose the child they will eventually adopt under new plans announced this Christmas.
Tuition fees bite as university applications plummet
Over 50,000 fewer students started university this year than in 2011, according to the University and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas).
The end of history? Students fall out of subject in their droves
Schools need to urgently drop Labour's citizenship classes and replace them with history lessons to deal with the collapse of interest in the subject, MPs said today.
Gove responsible for £1bn overspend in rush to create academies
Michael Gove's reputation came under severe criticism today when it emerged his department had created an estimated £1 billion of additional costs in its rush to expand the academies programme.
Demo 2012: The protest which fought itself
Relations between the National Union of Students (NUS) and its members hit rock bottom today, after marchers invaded its stage during a speech by its leader.
Two years later: New student protest to hit London
A new mass student protest will hit central London this week, two years after riots led to fierce clashes with police.
Fight against child abuse 'threatened by cuts'
Vulnerable children facing abuse could be affected by spending cuts undermining child protection services, MPs have warned.
Apprenticeship policy 'unclear and confusing'
The government's flagship policy of getting more young people into apprenticeships has been criticised as being unclear and lacking purpose by MPs.
Pupils' uncertainty continues as GCSE legal challenge begins
Even if the legal challenge against this summer's GCSE grading decisions begun today succeeds students will still face uncertainty, a solicitor has warned.
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