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According to a sizable cadre of the wonkerati, social mobility will be at the heart of Labour's next half-decade. If the first term was about economic stability and the second [...]

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 [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD An online UK schools guide and directory has been enhanced through a project carried out by Porism Ltd, a web site developer. The Good […]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Parents of UK schoolchildren will now have the chance to sign up to receive school letters via e-mail. The initiative is being set up […]

BRITAIN'S schools are failing to offer enough pupils access to the Internet, despite a sharp increase in the number of computers available in the classroom, a survey shows. Almost every […]

Teacher shortages, highlighted in an interview last Tuesday by no less a person than the Chief Inspector of Schools, are nothing new, though the two biggest crises of the past [...]

The UK IT industry is in 'grave danger' of losing its top-ranking position in higher education and research, due to poor pay and working conditions in universities. So says a […]

For European schoolkids, it keeps getting tougher to skip class and cheat. In Great Britain, teachers are using mobile phones to send instant text messages to the parents of truant […]

THE number of vocational IT qualifications is set to be reduced dramatically from September, when qualification-awarding bodies will be expected to meet the requirements of a tough new framework. Further […]

The National Grid for Learning initiative is the project that will apply the principles of 'Joined-up' government to education. At its heart is the sharing of information. The use of […]

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 [...]

Ted Wragg finds foreigners baffled by the latest developments in English schools It was a dark and stormy night on the San rancisco waterfront as the intrepid band of travellers [...]

Despite numerous expert studies, the relationship between education and growth remains mysterious. Russian teachers are often not paid at all but, when they are, they sometimes get their wages in [...]

Exclusive: Trafford parents give up the fight against the 11-plus. Earlier this year, I received a copy of the centenary Labour Party magazine, which included a picture of Tony Blair [...]

Kelley is headteacher of Monkseaton High School in Newcastle, England. The treatment of one of my state-school students has provoked a major political and media storm in Britain. The student, [...]

The U.K. government has appointed BP Amoco Chemicals CEO Bryan Sanderson chairman of the Learning and Skills Council (Coventry, U.K.), which has been set up to reorganize training and further [...]

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 [...]

Imagine private companies, with brand names as familiar as Tesco or Safeway, running chains of schools. Standards would soar. In 1999, new Labour embraced the notion that for-profit private education [...]

Since 1990 the Institute has sought to become more involved in the provision of education for its qualification. A more `hands on' approach has therefore been adopted with value being [...]

LIZ WARREN charts the technical evolution of Manchester Metropolitan University's distance learning operation The potential of the Internet to deliver distance learning courses to students at any time in any […]

The faults in the schooling of English teenagers have been clear for 30 years. Too many stop learning too early; in this respect, only Mexico, Turkey and Greece among OECD [...]

For schools and teachers, the annual announcement of GCSE and A-level results is a classic no-win situation: whether passes are up or down, they will be taken as evidence of [...]

Annually, around Easter, Britain's teachers gather in three separate seaside towns and slag off the government. (They need three towns, because there are three big teachers' unions.) This year will [...]

Over the past decade or so, British schools have been transformed. On the one hand, parents have greater choice, and local councils have lost many of their powers to direct [...]

Records Management Education in Britain: Groping in the Dusk Those in Britain who want to study records management have a hard time of it. There are, essentially, no degree programmes [...]

Behind the government's latest blast at the problem of Hackney's schools lurks a radical plan to kill or transform local education authorities As the New Statesman went to press, Stephen [...]

In the new, rigorous political climate that surrounds education, it may be unfashionable to feel some for teachers (especially as some are clearly not up to the job). But should [...]

In the English shires, parent power is turning against the government. If the tailor of Gloucester was at his window a few weeks ago, he would have seen an unusual [...]

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 [...]