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.
Gove takes on adoption bureaucracy
The coalition’s proposals to tackle bureaucracy slowing down the adoption system are being published today.
Michael Gove speech on adoption in full
Read Michael Gove’s speech on adoption in full on politics.co.uk
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.
Miliband deserts strikers as Gove goes on warpath
Striking public sector workers were struggling to receive any support in Westminster today as Ed Miliband branded the action “a failure”.
Clegg stands firm over free school profits
Nick Clegg will not “tolerate” state-run schools which are run for profit, he will say in a speech later.
Gove promises no ‘wackoidal’ free schools
Michael Gove’s free school programme will leave no space for “wackoidal” theories on religion and science, he has pledged.
The political week on Twitter
The week’s best political tweets in one handy location.
Gove laments education’s ‘lost souls’
Britain is blighted by “lost souls” which the school system has failed, Michael Gove has said.
