School location 'key for parents'
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Parents choose a school more because of its location than its exam results, a big survey suggests.
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Margaret Spellings said Monday her role as a parent of school-age children will help guide her views in her new job as secretary of education.
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The Conservatives have promised to give parents greater choice of schools. Their "pupil passport" idea is similar to a scheme in Sweden, as BBC education correspondent Mike Baker reports.
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By MIKE JOHNSON  Town of Merton - If you're a kid and it's a school day, there aren't too many better ways to spend the hours than splashing around in a lake, tromping through a swamp or hiking in a forest, all with the blessing of the principal and teachers.
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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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The city's public school choice process has left many parents and children stressed.
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Schools are being given rules for how they use and store pupils' biometric information, such as fingerprints.
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DfES qualifies its stance on school fingerprinting Parents cannot prevent schools from taking their children's fingerprints, according to the Department for Education and Skills and the Information Commissioner.â¦
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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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Pledge to give all parents a choice of school questioned by the minister responsible for delivering it
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Parents raise safety concerns about an online survey of school children which asked them for their postcodes.
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Parents are keen to monitor their children's progress in education with new technology, a survey suggests.
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Teachers are urged to take pupils on more school trips as a new safety guidelines are unveiled.
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Parental choice in schools pushes up standards but could increase social division, research suggests.
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Schools in England are urged to "twin" with those overseas as part of a strategy on  international collaboration.
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A former education adviser to Tony Blair warns school admissions policy is creating confusion for parents.
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Some parents are opting to ÂunschoolÂ their children, a philosophy broadly defined by its rejection of not only the schoolhouse but also classes, curriculums and textbooks.