Forum Brief: Fast track pupils
Policy Consultation 1 November 2002
Bright children will take national curriculum tests earlier under a new system which is designed to accelerate their progress.
Forum Brief: House of Commons reform
Policy Consultation 30 October 2002
MPs have narrowly backed Robin Cook's modernisation of the House of Commons.
Forum Brief: Exam cheating
Policy Consultation 28 October 2002
An investigation has found that cheating in SATs for 11-year-olds is so widespread that school league tables can no longer be trusted.
Forum Brief: A Level revamp
Policy Consultation 28 October 2002
Edexcel chief, John Kerr, has urged the government to restore confidence in A Levels - perhaps ditching the name to make the public recognise change to education's "gold standard".
Forum Brief: Clarke appointment
Policy Consultation 24 October 2002
Charles Clarke has been appointed as the new education secretary.
Forum Brief: Morris resignation
Policy Consultation 24 October 2002
Estelle Morris has resigned as education secretary.
Forum Brief: Teacher workload
Policy Consultation 22 October 2002
Teachers are to be given additional help with secretarial and administrative tasks under plans outlined by the government today.
Forum Brief: A and AS Levels
Policy Consultation 17 October 2002
Tony Blair has defended the system of A Levels after the Conservative leader claimed they "were not worth the paper they are written on".
Forum Brief: A Levels
Policy Consultation 15 October 2002
Estelle Morris has been accused of over-reacting to the A Level "grade fixing" row.
Forum Brief: Primary school curriculum
Policy Consultation 14 October 2002
School standards inspectorate Ofsted has today published a report on the primary curriculum.
Forum Brief: School expulsions
Policy Consultation 11 October 2002
The education secretary has personally intervened to prevent two 15-year-old pupils returning to school after making a series of telephone death threats to a teacher.
Forum Brief: Truancy crackdown
Policy Consultation 9 October 2002
Ministers are pressing ahead with tough new measures to crack down on the parents of truants.
Forum Brief: Private and state schools link
Policy Consultation 8 October 2002
Private schools should link up with schools from the state sector or lose their charitable status, the IPPR argued today.
Forum Brief: Exams re-grade
Policy Consultation 2 October 2002
A massive review of A-level papers will go ahead in the latest twist of the exams row.
Forum Brief: Morris' speech
Policy Consultation 2 October 2002
Comprehensives have failed to break the link between poverty and poor educational achievement, the education secretary has told Labour.
