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Speech patterns are just important as letter sounds when learning to read.
Suggestions that the government could introduce a two-tier system for post-16 education could still leave some young people behind.
With exam season in full swing, how you cope with stress might be the difference between brilliance and burnout.
Government plans to introduce more flexibility could be destabilising for universities.
Abduction, sexual violence, early marriage: a few of the choices facing adolescent girls who ought instead to be in school.
Good results and issues of identity drive attendance of Jewish schools – it’s not all down to religious beliefs.
Because exam season can be tough on parents, too.
Plans to reward universities for excellent teaching could see a bigger role for metrics that track how students spend their time.
Universities deemed excellent at teaching will be allowed to raise their fees in line with inflation.
Good tests may build in failure, but that doesn’t mean they’re an efficient way of measuring a child’s ability.
Families are falling deeper into poverty when school holidays come, just to feed their children.
Does it have a formula?
We should fret less about what teenagers do with their phones, and spend more time talking to them about what the digital, connected future holds for them.
Seven and 11-year-olds feel the pressure from their parents and teachers.
New, harder tests for primary school children have raised questions about the purpose of learning grammar.
Emotional competence can help children do better at school.
More children are going to independent school in the UK, according to a new census.
A few notable successes, but could do better.
We should be well jel of geezers who speak slang, says a language expert
Dealing with inequality should be the main priority.
Local education authorities have mediated the RE syllabus for decades. Now, there might be a free-for-all.
Plans to turn all schools into academies by 2022 have caused a crisis within the party.
With English dominating university life around the world, what are we losing?
A short history of research into the links between genes and intelligence.