Tory bid to select pupils by race
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Some schools would be able to select pupils by race under plans being considered by the Conservative Party.
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All schools in England should let pupils have a say in how they are run, MPs have recommended.
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A frontbench Conservative MP is reprimanded after suggesting selective schools can boost overall standards.
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Bogus language schools are to be  targeted in a new drive to bring down the number of fake foreign students in the UK.
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Free English lessons will be targeted at migrants who are poor or socially excluded, under government proposals.
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Didn't we hear that one somewhere before? Attempts to define race through science haven't had an entirely positive press subsequent to the collapse of the Third Reich, but the Weird Science Department of the UK Government could well be skittering on that very patch of thin ice. Lord Triesman, the Prime minister's Special Envoy for Returns, this week said that work on the "scientific and technical identification of nationality" will be "an important tool" to be used for the return of illegal immigrants to their countries of origin.â¦
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Currently, CCEA is proposing that a computerised assessment known as InCas be used with all children, starting at Primary 1. This system would not be appropriate for matching children to schools.
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Failing students could repeat the last year of primary school, Tory leader David Cameron proposes.
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BBC education correspondent Mike Baker considers the issue of school admissions.
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Tory MP John Bercow is asked by Gordon Brown to head a review into help for children with learning difficulties.
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MPs are to debate plans which will require schools to give unbiased advice about course options.
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Universities were encouraged yesterday to give preference to students from minority backgrounds in a scheme that could see working-class and ethnic minority applicants
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Students urge politicians to safeguard fair and equal access to Britain's elite universities.
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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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School saga is inflaming old divides between ethnic groups.
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The ability to use race when assigning students to public schools is on the line in two cases before the Supreme Court on Monday that could produce the most important decision on school desegregation in decades.
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School pupils reveal how visits from refugees and asylum seekers taught them lessons about prejudice.