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Sure Start Centres show positive impact on lives of children

Other findings show that parents have more positive parenting skills and provide a better home learning environment for their children, helping prepar

Many struggling pupils suffer from poor memory - report

Children who under-achieve at school may just have a poor working memory rather than low intelligence, according to researchers who have produced the

Oral tests to be dropped from language exams

Oral tests look set to be dropped from GCSE language exams in favour of longer-term teacher assessment, it emerged yesterday.

Attention Class! From Troops To Teachers

Former soldiers are being encouraged to retrain as teachers, bringing a taste of military discipline to tough, inner city schools

Young to receive lessons in culture

Every child will take part in five hours of cultural activities each week under a new Government plan.

NQTs need more time in class

New teachers should experience a full timetable before the end of their probation to prepare them for life as fully-fledged teachers, according to an

Academies for school cooks open

Training centres for school cooks are being launched across England to ensure primary school lunches meet strict new standards

Exam board takes cue from Richard and Judy

Examiners have culled TS Eliot, EM Forster and Joseph Conrad from the A-level curriculum and are offering schools the chance to pick their own set tex

Children who can dream again

Iraqi refugees in Jordan have at last won the right to an education. Natasha Gilbert hears what it means to them

Students from every school in Britain to visit Auschwitz

Britain will help fund two students from every school in England to visit Auschwitz to learn about the Holocaust, in a bid to help teach the lessons o