Forum Brief: Teacher pay
Policy Consultation 29 October 2003
The education secretary has announced extra measures to help schools suffering from a budget crisis.
Forum Brief: School league tables
Policy Consultation 29 October 2003
The government has announced plans to publish separate league tables of national curriculum test results for 14-year-olds for the first time.
Clarke condemns NUT strike threat
News Article 24 October 2003
The education secretary has reacted angrily to the latest strike threat from a teaching union.
Forum Brief: Teacher vacancies
Policy Consultation 23 October 2003
Teacher vacancies in secondary schools have trebled since 1997, according to government figures published on Wednesday.
Forum Brief: Secondary school targets
Policy Consultation 15 October 2003
A report by the Commons education select committee has warned the government against introducing further targets for secondary schools.
NUT slams school cuts
Press Review 15 October 2003
Forum Brief: School tests
Policy Consultation 30 September 2003
Award-winning children's author Philip Pullman has attacked the government's "brutal" school testing system, warning that it is creating a generation of children who hate reading and "feel nothing but hostility
Forum Brief: School cash shortfall
Policy Consultation 19 September 2003
The National Union of Teachers said on Thursday that schools were facing a £1 billion shortfall in funding over the next three years.
Union highlights school cash shortfall
Press Review 19 September 2003
Forum Brief: Children's commissioner
Policy Consultation 8 September 2003
England is to have a watchdog to safeguard children's rights under new plans published by the government.
Forum Brief: Disruptive pupils
Policy Consultation 3 September 2003
Details of a multi-million pound plan to tackle truancy and bad behaviour in schools have been set out by education minister Ivan Lewis.
NUT threatens strike over classroom assistants
Press Review 1 September 2003
Forum Brief: GCSE results
Policy Consultation 21 August 2003
Overall achievement at GCSE level is down for the first time in three years, exam results released today will reveal.
Forum Brief: SATs
Policy Consultation 19 August 2003
There has been little improvement in literacy and numeracy among primary school children, the latest test results have indicated.
Forum Brief: A Level results
Policy Consultation 14 August 2003
This year's A Level results have been published, with more students than ever achieving top marks.
