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Leading academic attacks citizenship teaching

Sir David Watson attacked the flagship government education policy as nationalistic and politically slanted

Millions of pounds wasted on schools with 'empty' desks

Figures show nearly one in seven primary schools and one in 10 secondaries are at least a quarter empty

McDonald's to train 10,000 staff a year

The recruitment and training of thousands of teenagers will make it the country’s biggest provider of apprenticeships

Darts being used to encourage maths

Debate has raged over whether darts is really a sport but there is no doubt it is, at least, a branch of applied mathematics

Private schools secretly up for sale

At least 25 independent schools are facing a spate of takeovers as pupil numbers decline in the economic downturn

Can Dr Evil get boys to start reading again?

Three boys and a girl take on a wicked scientist in a series designed to turn boys, who lag behind girls, into bookworms

Poor pupils are falling farther behind

An analysis by the Conservatives shows the divide between rich and poor to have risen by two percentage points within a year

Failure to master maths adds up

Research by KPMG suggests that innumeracy costs Britain £2.4 billion every year at school and in the workplace

Probability lessons teach how to be winners

One of Britain’s leading mathematicians says pupils should be taught the statistical skills to make sensible life decisions

Universities fail to woo poor students

Universities are to step up efforts to 'socially engineer' intake after failure to attract applicants from poor families

This is a place of learning, not a school

A school in Sheffield has adopted the new phraseology because it thinks that the word 'school' may have negative connotations

'Let students take drugs to boost brainpower'

Leading academic Professor John Harris suggests that students take 'smart drugs' like Ritalin to improve concentration

Ban will keep junk food away from pupils

Local authorities are resorting to aggressive policies in schools, as efforts to combat childhood obesity fail

15,000 teachers call in sick every day

More than 311,000 teachers took authorised sick leave last year, resulting in the loss of nearly 3,000,000 working days

Minister urged to lift cap off university fees

Report commissioned by universities secretary finds institutions should up prices if it improves the quality of teaching

Police dealt with 7,000 violent incidents at schools

Tories say figures show impotence of teachers in dealing with violence, but heads say figures do not tell whole story

Academy exclusions ‘may harm nearby schools’

A review of the Government’s academies programme warned that the neighbouring schools were not collaborating closely enough

School trips: No parents, please

New guidance discourages parents from going on school trips. For some schools it may mean no trips at all

Answer the question: Chris Woodhead

Inspectors don’t believe everything they see