Minister: schools keeping poor pupils out
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'Covert admission practices' discriminate against poorer families, schools minister says
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Schools are struggling to cope with increasing numbers of pupils with mental health problems, research suggests.
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Plaid Cymru claims the Army is targeting schools in the more deprived areas of Wales to find new recruits.
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The state is failing children in its care with most leaving without any qualifications, a report by a think tank has said.
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Ugandan children who have completed primary school benefit from free education at many secondary schools.
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White pupils from poor homes are most likely to persistently underachieve and far more are boys than girls, a study says.
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The education minister  is embroiled in an exchange of words over a teaching scheme for graduates backed by Tony Blair.
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Teachers could get more powers to remove unruly pupils from classes, suggests Education Secretary Ruth Kelly.
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A lack of suitably trained staff poses a serious threat to the government's early years programme, MPs warn.
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Money given to schools to support pupils who have special educational needs should be ring fenced, campaigners say.
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Ministers are telling councils in England that, by law, they should not be closing rural schools.
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Paid governors for groups of schools might be an answer to recruitment in poorer areas, a study suggests.
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Vulnerable youngsters expelled from schools in England are being doubly disadvantaged, say inspectors.
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Ministers are proposing to claw back 5% of any money England schools have left at the end of the financial year.
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Campaigners for village schools say hundreds face closure because of government pressure.
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Poor children who attended a premier preschool in the 1960s were more likely to graduate from high school, hold a job and stay out of jail than peers who didn&#39;t get an early education, says
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The state is failing children in care with most leaving without any qualifications, a report by a think tank has said.