Creativity 'boosts pupils' work'
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Pupils benefit from having worked with creative people such as writers and fashion designers, Ofsted says.
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Â· Assistant head says pupils gain wide range of skills  Â· NUT representative says scheme is step too far
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Pupils prefer active learning with real-life relevance, a review of research studies suggests.
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Mike Baker considers what has driven improvement in England's specialist secondary schools.
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Pupils in England will learn more about how food is grown and how it reaches the consumer in a new  scheme.
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Pupils in fee-paying schools scored four times as many A* grades at GCSE this summer than the average for teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, according to figures from the Independent Schools Council (ISC) released yesterday.
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NEW YORK  - Music lessons may give a boost  to the IQ scores of children, even if they're less than musical  prodigies, new research suggests.
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A strategy is launched to encourage teenagers in England to develop an enterprise culture.
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Schools grapple with degree to which they're responsible for social, as well as academic, skills.
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MORE than 700 children from 14 primary and junior schools across Solihull are uniting to find out how they can make a difference to their environment.
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Schools in England have been sent advice on how to teach children good spoken English.
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COMPUTER software which gives children a chance to create their own comic strips is proving a hit with pupils at Frederick Bird Primary School.  Shefateur Rhaman and Alamin Hussain, both 11, brought in toys from home and took pictures of them with a digital camera.
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UK schoolchildren are being offered the chance to design an experiment for a small satellite.
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Extended schools, with after-school activities, are improving GCSE results, say researchers.
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Schemes to improve adults' English and maths skills need to be more "creative and responsive", a report says.
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By Barbara Grady  A couple of years ago, Jim Marggraff created a pen for school kids that couldn't be beat. If you wrote out an algebra problem with it on special paper, it would help you figure out the answer, spouting advice from a voice-activated computer inside the pen.
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GCSE pupils at private schools are three times more likely to score A and A* grades, a report suggests.