Chill Out

Religion should not be used to select pupils

Two-year study by race-relations think-tank provides a devastating critique of the role of faith schools in modern Britain

Britain’s big challenges met by new doctors

A £250 million initiative will create 44 PhD training centres in the biggest expansion of postgraduate science education

Parent approval not needed for sixth-form

Sixteen-year-olds will be able to apply for sixth-form study without parental approval, under new school admissions code

Teens to get right to choose own sixth-form

The measure is an attempt to encourage young people to take a greater interest in their own education

Faith schools 'should not select on religion'

The two year study by the race-relations think tank the Runnymede Trust, provides a devastating critique of the role of faith schools

Faith schools 'fail poorest' says report

Many have a 'disproportionately small' number of children from the poorest sectors of society, the landmark report says

Teacher who pulled faces at kids is struck off

Susan Barnard seemed to be 'acting or pretending' to do her job, and pulled faces at pupils from behind their headmistress

Dropout fear over grant delay for poorest

Colleges fear that thousands of students could drop out if they do not receive their education maintenance allowance soon

Student’s diary exposes Cambridge University

19th-century student's diary, which is to be published for the first time in 100 years, tells of drinking and prostitution

Spanish to overtake German as language of choice

Three years ago, half of state schools offered Spanish but now it is 75 per cent, according to a survey

Employees 'must have right to study leave'

A new right for employees to take study leave is needed to ensure that British workers can compete in global economy, ministers have said

Scale of grant delays revealed

More than 100,000 teenagers are still waiting for their education grants, three months after the start of term

Happiness lessons 'having little impact'

Lesson to help children to learn emotional skills and improve classroom discipline have had little impact on pupil behaviour a study suggests

Thousands more students to have grants cut

An extra 90,000 students will lose out because of a government miscalculation, the Students Loans Company estimates

'Act to stop another Baby P case' warns think tank

Failure to invest in support services means thousands of children were destined to leave school 'illiterate, pregnant and unqualified'

Left-handers do 'less well' in exams

A study of more than 10,000 children born in the 1990s, found that left-handed children perform slightly less well in IQ tests

Who won the battle of Waterloo? Google it!

'Net generation' champion says memorising facts is a waste of time

The danger of relying on a computer’s memory

What is going to happen when the digital grown-ups are stripped of their BlackBerries and put to the test?

Teacher faces ban for 'indecent advances'

Primary school teacher accused of indecent behaviour towards his pupils could be struck off the teaching register

Students need truth over ‘soft’ A-level choices

Bright pupils may be ruining their chances of getting into a top university by choosing profession-based A-level subjects