Forum Brief: School tests
Policy Consultation 16 June 2003
More tests could be introduced to 14-year olds across all subjects, according to reports.
Forum Brief: School funding
Policy Consultation 6 June 2003
Charles Clarke has promised a two-year cash settlement this autumn that would guarantee every school enough extra money to meet rising costs.
Forum Brief: Starter homes
Policy Consultation 29 May 2003
The Liberal Democrats have claimed that a £250 million government scheme to help key workers buy homes only helped one in four of the people targeted since its launch in
Forum Brief: School funding
Policy Consultation 22 May 2003
More than 3000 teachers will lose their jobs because of the funding crisis in Britain's schools, according to a survey in the Times.
Forum Brief: Specialist schools
Policy Consultation 22 May 2003
Ministers have failed to justify continuing the policy of creating specialist secondary schools, a committee of MPs have concluded.
Forum Brief: Policy-making and young people
Policy Consultation 21 May 2003
Ivan Lewis, minister for young people and adult skills, has published a progress report on the government's Listening to Learn initiative.
Forum Brief: Primary school tests
Policy Consultation 20 May 2003
Literacy and numeracy tests for seven-year-olds are to be reviewed as part of plans to give schools more responsibility for setting their own targets, education secretary Charles Clarke has said.
Forum Brief: School budgets
Policy Consultation 15 May 2003
Charles Clarke has moved to free up cash for school budgets in a bid to end the education funding crisis.
Forum Brief: Conservative education policy
Policy Consultation 13 May 2003
The Conservatives have pledged to abolish university tuition fees if they win the next general election.
Forum Brief: London schools
Policy Consultation 13 May 2003
Charles Clarke has pledged a radical revamp of the way London's schools are managed.
Forum Brief: Deaf awareness
Policy Consultation 6 May 2003
National Deaf Awareness Week last week prompted calls for deaf awareness training to be available to staff working in mainstream schools attended by deaf children.
Forum Brief: Education funding
Policy Consultation 2 May 2003
Charles Clarke has today published an analysis of Local Education Authority budgets for 2003-04.
Forum Brief: Independent schools
Policy Consultation 29 April 2003
The head of Ofsted has warned that failing independent schools must improve their standards.
Forum Brief: School sports
Policy Consultation 26 April 2003
Sports minister Richard Caborn has been criticised after he endorsed a campaign encouraging children to buy 160 million bars in return for "free" sports equipment for their schools.
Forum Brief: School funding crisis
Policy Consultation 24 April 2003
Charles Clarke has accused local education authorities of causing a funding crisis by failing to award schools all the money they have been allocated.
