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- Progress needs patience - The Guardian, Thursday August 30, 2007
It will take time for government reforms to reading, writing and maths for seven-year-olds to affect results, says Donald MacLeod Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Prof John Sutherland condemns 'ruinous' state of English literature at universities - Daily Telegraph, Wednesday June 1, 2011
The study of English literature in universities is in a “ruinous” state because students are treated as customers rather than being told what to read
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Prodigy on a mission to turn children into lovers of literature - The Observer, Sunday February 19, 2006
She dashes off poems and reads Voltaire in her spare time. Now Adora, eight, is coming to tell British pupils how to write Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Probe launched as examiners 'set same GCSE paper twice' - Daily Telegraph, Friday April 20, 2012
An inquiry has been launched after hundreds of students were forced to sit a GCSE English exam that was almost identical to one staged just three years earlier.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Prize incentive to help improve literacy in the Commonwealth - The Guardian, Monday April 12, 2010
As former winners, we acknowledge the truly unique contribution the Commonwealth Writers' prize has made in promoting literacy as a tool to empower and enrich the lives of millions...Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Private tuition firm to provide maths and English at state secondaries - Times Educational Supplement, Friday July 29, 2011
A private tuition company has struck a deal worth about £200,000 to teach English and maths lessons in five state secondaries in East Anglia.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Print is not dead - but it is fast fading away - The Guardian, Friday October 14, 2005
Young people are heading towards a world in which books and other traditional media have almost no place, writes Adam Fox The government's watchdog on teaching and examining, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), issued a booklet this week on the future of the major subjects studied in English schools....
This is appropriate: the book is history.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Prince Charles's elite teachers will bring back Chaucer and the Crusades - Daily Telegraph, Sunday November 6, 2011
The Prince of Wales is to create a cadre of elite teachers to bring neglected areas of study back to England’s schools.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Prince attacks 'voguish' GCSE text message studies - The Guardian, Wednesday June 8, 2005
The Prince of Wales attacked "short-term, fashionable" trends in education yesterday which he said were threatening the "foundations of civilised existence".Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary tests results improving - BBC, Tuesday August 7, 2007
Primary school national test results in England have shown a slight improvement in English, maths and science.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary teachers should have A-level maths and English, say thinktank - The Guardian, Wednesday July 22, 2009
Right-of-centre study argues teachers among worst qualified in EuropeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary stereotypes - The Guardian, Tuesday May 15, 2007
Phil Beadle on how each sector of British education views the others as being the realm of the amateur. 'In the space of seven weeks working with experts from primary and adult sectors for this new TV programme, however, I've acquired more new knowledge and skills than in the previous five years combined.'Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary schools to get new freedom - The Guardian, Thursday April 30, 2009
Slimmed-down curriculum will allow teachers to select lesson content and make links between subjects... For the first time children will have to learn how to speak properly alongside reading and writing skills Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary schools miss test targets - BBC, Thursday December 7, 2006
This year's league tables of England's primary schools confirm the government missed its targets for the results of Sats tests children took in May.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary school strategies were a waste of money, report claims - The Guardian, Thursday April 30, 2009
Literacy and numeracy standards rose faster before government brought them in, says thinktankLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary school Sats will stay, says Balls - The Guardian, Wednesday October 15, 2008
Tests "show how individual children and schools perform"
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Secondary schools' "grave concerns" over replacement - Primary school Sats results on the rise - The Guardian, Tuesday August 2, 2011
Marked increase in 3Rs attainment for level 4 pupils but worries persist at level 5, particularly in reading abilityLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary school league tables show 1,310 schools failing on English and maths - The Guardian, Thursday December 15, 2011
About 150 schools languishing beneath 'floor standard' for five years, though percentage of children meeting standards is upLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary school league tables expose shortcomings - BBC, Tuesday December 1, 2009
The controversial primary school league tables for England, based on children's Sats results, have been published.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary school league tables 2009: heads threaten Sats boycott - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday December 1, 2009
Head teachers are threatening to block the publication of primary school league tables next year after branding them “demoralising”.
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