Research has found that parents who push their children leads to them doing better in school.
Parents who ensure their child gets their head down in the classroom has a better effect than the effort that gets put in by the school and the child.
The research was done by the universities of Leicester and Leeds, and [...]
Over six hundred students decided to demonstrate in Oxford fighting against the latest decision to raise tuition fees and also fighting for a change in how higher education is funded in England.
Business Secretary Vince Cable was due to visit Oxford on the day of the demonstration but cancelled when he heard about the protest.
The protest [...]
The majority of pupils will find they are in schools which will face funding cuts, even though there has been an announcement of an increase in the schools budget.
The rise in English school spending will be 0.1% every year.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies stated eighty seven percent of secondary school pupils and sixty percent of [...]
Headteachers are concerned that school staff like caretakers and lunch ladies could end up being underpaid.
The organisation that decides on the salary for thousands of school workers has been scrapped, meaning a higher chance of these workers being underpaid.
The education secretary informed the house of Commons he was abolishing the School Support Staff Negotiating Body [...]
Michael Gove’s department of education were unable to invite bids for a five hundred thousand pound grant to help parents in setting up free schools, before awarding it to his former adviser.
The education secretary’s former colleague, Rachel Wolf who is 25, runs The New Schools Network charity was awarded the five hundred thousand pound grant [...]
