Primary school results laid bare
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The primary school league tables for England set out the scale of the gap between the best and the worst.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Starting school at the age of four is "stressful" to children and does not help their education, according to a major review of English primary schools which also concluded kids take too many tests too early.
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An Ofsted study of children's first years of learning shows weaknesses in literacy and calculation.
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Number of children taught in schools with more than 2,000 pupils has trebled since Labour came to power
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A pilot study assesses making primary schools in England specialists, the way most secondaries now are.
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Â· Sats make English pupils most tested in the world  Â· Parents sceptical of league tables, GTC study finds
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Report laments 'phrase book' standards Foreign language teaching in the UK's state schools has been reduced to "the sort of thing you find in a 'get by' phrase book", claims a doom-and-gloom report published yesterday.â¦
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&#39;It&#39;s really the only way we have to determine how the United States as a nation is doing in preparing its children and its students in math and science.
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The results are in, but what they mean is by no means settled.
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NI students will receive the first batch of GCSE grades which show a slight improvement from last year.
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The author of a report on England's exams says it does not matter whether A-levels and GCSEs remain as "labels".
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Some primary schools could close and others may share head teachers as Gwynedd examines its education system.
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The number of England's schools judged to be failing has remained steady on the same period last year.
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Can "clearer" school tables tell us what we need to know, the BBC's Mike Baker asks.
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Elementary and middle schoolers posted solid gains in math and more modest improvements in reading in national test results released Tuesday.
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Kids pitch in to improve school ICT A parliamentary group has launched a competition for primary school children to prove their grasp of technology.â¦
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Finland, where there are no wholly-private schools, beat the top-ranking schools in Hong-Kong, Japan and Korea in maths and science - but the UK was left out of the study after the government failed to deliver the statistics.