Debating skills to aid social mobility
Debate Mate coaches state school children to speak up
View ArticleSingapore-style teaching boosts UK maths
Study provides first evidence that new ‘Mathematics Mastery’ programme influences performance
View ArticleScrap GCSEs, says head of business lobby
Putting teenagers under exam pressure gets in the way of learning, says Cridland
View ArticleUK schools should not be exam factories
Compulsory national examination at 16 and 18 cannot be justified
View ArticleConcern raised over ‘coasting’ academies
Research casts doubts on how effective forced academisation would be in raising attainment levels
View ArticleTop universities eyed as A-levels arrive
More students take core academic subjects to seek edge in competitive labour market
View ArticleGCSE pass rate up but top grades fall
Big increase in entries for science, Polish and Urdu as French and German decline
View ArticleA-level students at work in the City
Twenty-year-old scheme aims to give state school pupils a taste of life in a financial job
View ArticlePupils offered courses in real-life maths
Practical numeracy syllabus to cover interest rates and profit margins
View ArticleEnglish schools face recruitment crisis
Numbers entering teacher training have fallen by 17% over the past 5 years
View ArticleWe must stem the loss of girls studying science, technology, engineering, maths
Many of the UK’s best scientists are giving up before they have even started
View ArticleMaths is more important than adding up
Business needs problem-solvers who use modern tools, writes Conrad Wolfram
View ArticleNew grammar school given green light
Weald of Kent school plans 450-pupil ‘annexe’ in Sevenoaks
View ArticleGrammar schools are not the real issue
Excellence for all is an admirable goal but it needs funding to be achieved, writes Sam Freedman
View ArticleSchool 21: circle time beats exam coaching
The London ‘free school’ focuses on skills such as oratory
View ArticleSchools to be freed from local authorities
Education burdget protected and more loans extended to students
View ArticleUK warned of north-south schools divide
Ofsted chief calls on MPs, chief executives and headteachers to emulate efforts made in London
View ArticleEnglish adults struggle with basic maths
About 9m working-aged people have difficulty with simple reasoning
View ArticleComprehensive schools advance in CEO list
Privately educated still over-represented in top corporate jobs by share of population, survey finds
View ArticleBritons’ maths-phobia is no joke
Problem is with culture in which it is all right to say ‘I don’t do numbers’, writes Bronwen Maddox
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