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Britain has slipped down the international education league THE results of a new international comparison of 15-year-olds' scores in maths, reading and science, sponsored by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic [...]

A private-sector deal opens Britain's higher education business BRITAIN has two big higher-education institutions outside the state sector. Now they are joining forces. One is the University of Buckingham, an [...]

Britain is obsessed with school exam results. Grades are rising for good reasons--but the system has some deep flaws SCHOOL exams must do a few seemingly simple things. They should [...]

Are Britain's top fee-paying schools running a cartel? PARENTS of the 6% of children at independent schools will be getting letters around now telling them that fees are rising by [...]

Comparing notes WASHINGTON, DC The British educational establishment is eager to learn from the United States. But will it learn the right lessons? LAST week much of the British educational [...]

The once mighty Local Education Authorities are being quietly dismantled in the government's drive to pay more money directly to schools IN THE government's crusade to raise educational standards, most [...]

NOT everyone rejoiced at this month's school exam results. Teenagers were delighted to achieve record grades in both GCSEs and A-levels. But scientists and engineers who believe that the education [...]

THE past fortnight has brought a flurry of initiatives on education: a compromise on the national curriculum, guidelines on everything from discipline to special education, noises about bringing back school [...]

ANYTHING that gives the English a reason to meditate on the state of their schools should be welcomed. This week they had not one reason but two. On November 15th, [...]

BRITISH schoolchildren are doing brilliantly in their exams. On August 26th, GCSE results showed the sixth successive improvement since GCSEs replaced O-levels in 1988. Last week A-level candidates achieved their [...]

LIKE journalists, plumbers and the Royals, teachers have an image problem. They want to be loved but find themselves mistrusted. They consider themselves hard-working, dedicated and badly-paid. But they know [...]

Our latest brief looks at education and training where, despite much sound and fury, Britain's political parties are in broad agreement on the outlines of policy. The most striking fact [...]

Business-school blues THIS winter Oxbridge common rooms are buzzing with gossip about the outcome of a new kind of varsity match: who will be first to set up a first-class [...]

WHAT should Britain do about an examination at, tackTed by the country's employers' organisation, by the heads of four-fifths of its secondary schools, by its university vice-chancellors and even by [...]

BRITAIN is sprouting MBAs as if they were an instant cure for decades of management incompetence. In contrast, America, inventor of the Master of Business Administration, has grown unhappy with [...]

In the bid to reform Britain's schools, the government is trying a unique educational experiment THE most spectacular educational reform of the Thatcher government may also turn out to be [...]

All but the most academic children are discouraged from going on to higher education by England's A-level exams. Those who want to go to university or polytechnic must specialise narrowly [...]

OVER the past few weeks anxious and ambitious middle-class parents have been suffering agonies over their 11-year-old daughters. They have been waiting to find out if Sophie or Emma has [...]

Not enough science and maths graduates are becoming teachers. That problem needs to be solved before the number of schoolchildren starts to rise again ADVERTISE for a secondary,school maths teacher [...]

IS MANAGEMENT a profession? This question has exercised the best minds in British business since the idea was floated last year of having qualified chartered managers, much like qualified chartered [...]

Hope for the handicapped MOST of the trade in ideas between East and West these days is one-way: the communist countries are learning from their western neighbours. But Hungary is [...]