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The gap is growing between the best and worst chains of academies, according to new research.
Children who tend to do well in one subject tend to do well in others, largely for genetic reasons.
The Channel programme is meant to protect children, but it could be breaching their rights.
Only 1% of adolescent friendships last the distance - but could our schools be the real root of the problem?
Plans to double free childcare will only be available for ‘working parents’.
There is no consistent system for recording and reporting children who are removed from school registers.
Music is good for the brain – and we’re now discovering how it helps our cognition.
Despite big changes in childcare policy at the end of the 20th century, we’re asking many of the same questions as in the 1960s.
We shouldn’t just be blaming the middle classes for snapping up all the free childcare spots.
When teachers and schools remind children to be inclusive, they are nicer to those not in their ‘group’.
New partnerships between schools and colleges have helped more children with autism continue in further education.
As university becomes more expensive, it seems more students are seeking other ways to pay for their education.
For the first time, teachers have voted for the best ebooks to use in school.
Lesions on a particular region of the brain can cause ‘acquired dyslexia’.
As more foreign aid starts going to higher education, developing countries need to be careful about the direction of travel for their universities.
The decision about whether to say a ‘person with autism’ or an ‘autistic person’ is never clear cut.
Policies announced in George Osborne’s budget could harm students’ access to university and cost the state more.
Can you and should you stop free thought? Not in primary school.
For decades, higher education in developing countries has not been a priority for international aid donors. That is now changing.
Oxford and Cambridge are to lose special funding for their undergraduate tutorial teaching system.
It’s not just about physical training and psychology, sport is influenced by your location.
As professors, we must look up from our cosy academic debates and hear the cries around us.
The higher education minister Jo Johnson has announced plans for a new Teaching Excellence Framework.
Inside the theme park where kids have to play at real jobs to earn a living.