A decade after they were phased out, the government could reintroduce national tests for seven-year-olds.
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Despite economic hardships, young people haven’t been pushed into crime. But can we trust the data?
Nicky Morgan has announced a scheme to give incentives for the best teachers to go to struggling schools. Will it work?
China’s population policy helped more women into university, creating a generation with higher aspirations.
People growing up with two or more languages have social and cognitive advantages.
Children educated at home by their parents are not on a register, nor subject to an annual visit.
It’s simple: sexist language should be considered just as unacceptable as racist and homophobic language.
The UK’s approach to classics in school is a hangover from the days of selective education.
Names of applicants will no longer be shown on university admissions forms from 2017. But will it help?
UK universities should take note from US colleges and cultivate more of a university spirit.
A new film questions the way universities handle complaints of sexual assault.
The number of part-time students has dropped dramatically and even those who get to university feel side-lined.
Five percent of seven-year-olds are having some kind of extra tuition. Why?
To prepare teachers for the 21st century, we need to reform the way we assess children.
The world outside the womb is full of new sensations for a newborn. New research is explaining how they navigate it.
Both universities and their host countries have a stake in the success of overseas campuses.
A new grammar school has been given the go-head in Kent, despite evidence that selective education increases inequality.
If robots will take traditional graduate jobs, universities should be training students in borderless leadership skills.
Dubbing Islamic supplementary schools as incubators for extremism and intolerance could be counter-productive.
Classes at Al-Quds University have been disrupted by violence, but students are still struggling to learn.
Children growing up with other relatives are more likely to be from an ethnic minority.
The new wave of academies created since 2010 are very different to those that went before.
A checklist of how countries can be as uncompetitive as possible in attracting overseas students.
The higher education sector needs to think what it can offer to the average taxpayer.
Some countries make it easier than others for women to have a family and keep on working.