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Police fear a link to gang culture after a rise in rapes and serious assaults in schools
Introduced as a key education reform in 1997, the strategies included directives on how reading and writing should be taught
Faith schools are allowed legally to discriminate on religious grounds but not racial grounds
JFS, in Kingsbury, North London, said pupil was not Jewish because his mother had converted at a progressive synagogue
A scheme that attracts top graduates to secondary school teaching should be extended to primaries, the Sutton Trust says
Class of 2009 - the first to pay full tuition fees - faces bleak job market with a 20 per cent fall in graduate vacancies
It is vital that everyone still learns proper spelling says Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary
A court has ruled that children have a right to offer an opinion as long as it does not hinder their teacher professionally
St Martin's School in Northwood won The Times Spelling Bee, the first national spelling championship for schools
Youngsters shoot to fame after a rapid-fire performance in front of the judges at finals of The Times Spelling Bee contest
Ofsted report finds schools receive inadequate support from authorities or cannot afford alternative strategies to expulsion
Adam Abdelnoor says children must be accountable for their actions but schools need to offer them a lot of of support
A Dorset schoolboy is running a campaign to save the Lyme Regis Hotel where JRR Tolkien wrote part of Lord of the Rings
Top performing state schools will form academies to raise standards and cut costs at weaker schools, Ed Balls says
Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, says voters will face a choice between Government investment and Conservative cuts
Discounted degree courses and help for budding entrepreneurs are among the help offered by Scottish universities to job-hunting graduates
A flood of graduates are set for struggle and disappointment as they enter the worst job market for decades
The mantra that helped generations of children to spell is confusing and irrelevant, according to government guidelines
Wes Streeting, president of the National Union of Students, says virtual learning environments should replace lectures
Checks on whether students from outside the EU are attending courses will not be operating until the end of the year
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