Forum Brief: Exam report response
Policy Consultation 3 December 2002
In the ePolitix forum teachers and examiners respond to the Tomlinson report.
Forum Brief: Literacy rates
Policy Consultation 27 November 2002
The chief inspector of schools has warned that schools are failing to teach literacy properly.
Forum Brief: Specialist schools
Policy Consultation 26 November 2002
City Technology Schools are achieving GCSE results which are nearly twice as good as those of comprehensives in general, according to the latest figures.
Forum Brief: Academic performance
Policy Consultation 25 November 2002
The chief inspector of schools has called on girls to do even better in exams to beat the discrimination they will suffer in later life.
Forum Brief: Language lessons
Policy Consultation 25 November 2002
Language assistants from France, Germany and Spain, are to be hired to give lessons to children aged seven and up.
Forum Brief: Teacher freedoms
Policy Consultation 22 November 2002
Charles Clarke has announced that he wants teachers to have more freedom from central government.
Forum Brief: Language teaching
Policy Consultation 22 November 2002
Secondary schools are considering ditching compulsory foreign language GCSEs in a bid to improve exam result ratings.
Forum Brief: Class sizes
Policy Consultation 21 November 2002
The government has missed its target that no five to seven-year-olds should be in classes of more than 30 by September, according to figures from the Department for Education and
Forum Brief: Queen's Speech - Education
Policy Consultation 13 November 2002
Education ministers are set to renew their drive to crack down on truant pupils, the Queen told parliament this morning.
Forum Brief: Asylum bill
Policy Consultation 8 November 2002
The government last night won the day on controversial laws to establish new asylum detention centres.
Forum Brief: Childcare
Policy Consultation 7 November 2002
Schools are to be asked to look after pupils before and after the school day as part of a new plan for helping parents with childcare, according to a new
Forum Brief: Scottish education
Policy Consultation 6 November 2002
Scotland's first minister, Jack McConnell, has outlined his plans for the future of education in Scotland in a landmark speech to headteachers.
Forum Brief: Asylum bill
Policy Consultation 6 November 2002
The government's asylum bill returns to the Lords today after more than 40 Labour MPs voted to allow all children of asylum seekers to be educated in mainstream schools rather
Forum Brief: Further education strike
Policy Consultation 5 November 2002
Further education colleges face shutdown today as lecturers and support staff stage industrial action over a 2.3 per cent pay offer.
Further education staff hold industrial action
News Article 5 November 2002
Further education colleges have been hit as lecturers and support staff stage industrial action over a 2.3 per cent pay offer.
