Labour: pupils should be given lessons in speaking skills
23.05.2012, 15:00:27
Children as young as five should be given lessons in debating and presentation skills amid fears that too many pupils are leaving school unable to articulate themselves properly, according to Labour. |
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David Willetts: computer science courses 'catastrophically boring'
23.05.2012, 12:18:26
Education is failing to keep up with the needs of businesses and putting people off studying IT, science and universities, Minister David Willetts has said. |
CBI: children being failed by GCSE exams system
22.05.2012, 23:01:44
Ministers should consider scrapping GCSEs because pupils' education is being seriously undermined by exams taken at 16, business leaders said yesterday. |
Bend the twig to shape the tree - that's the key to social mobility
22.05.2012, 19:03:04
Only a radical rethink of pre-school education will improve the lot of the under-achiever, says Neil O'Brien. |
How technology is taking hold of our children's lives
22.05.2012, 18:58:46
We should limit toddlers' access to gadgets, believes Rowan Pelling. |
Sketch: The Lib Dem who wants to give the poor a Clegg-up
22.05.2012, 16:25:09
Michael Deacon watches Nick Clegg relaunch his campaign for greater social mobility. |
Bodleian library changes anger professors
22.05.2012, 11:26:10
Oxford University professors fear "noisy mass tourism" from rowdy undergraduates. |
Ofsted: bright children failed by poor maths lessons
22.05.2012, 05:00:41
Inspectors are to launch a fresh crackdown on substandard maths teaching after it emerged that almost 40,000 bright children are leaving school with a "mediocre" grasp of the subject, Ofsted said today. |
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