Letters: Imbalance of power in education

The dangers which Peter Wilby points out (Does Gove realise he is empowering future dictators?, 31 January) were recognised 70 years ago. Unfortunately secretaries of state know very little history. The Oxford historian Dr Marjorie Reeves, when invited to be on the Central Advisory Council For Education (England) in 1946, was told by the permanent secretary, [...]

Michael Gove pledges to raise education standards – video

Speaking to the education select committee, the education secretary Michael Gove said schools that cannot get a majority of its pupils leaving school literate and numerate are not doing well enough. online school degrees

Letters: Cuts in education continue from libraries to outdoor centres

You have done us all a service by exposing the damaging cuts the government is inflicting on education (Report, 27 December). Those of us who work in education have been aware of this for some time. Let me highlight two areas. While the UK languishes in 25th position in the international Pisa reading rankings, a [...]

Young campaigners for education win award

A special issue of the Guardian helped to win this year’s Steve Sinnott award for young campaigners How about these for a few headlines that nobody would complain about: “Malaria wiped out”; “World population levelling off”; “Last shanty towns demolished in Mumbai”; and even: “Everyone in the world now earns at least $ 5 a [...]

Speed read of the latest education news

Why are sports personalities all men? Plus, a proposed free school hops boroughs, and a season of ill will at the London College of Communications Stopwatch at the ready The all-male shortlist for this year’s BBC Sports Personality of The Year met with outrage earlier this month. But the news came as no surprise to [...]

Bradford girls’ grammar school applies to join state education system

Independent girls’ school, whose past pupils include Barbara Castle, says it is time to ‘return to its community roots’ One of the north of England’s best-known independent girls’ schools is to apply to become a free school, which would end fee-paying and widen admission. Bradford girls’ grammar school, whose past pupils include the radical Labour [...]

Letter: Sex education and BNP ignorance

When I read your report of the demonstration by the British National party outside Grenoside community primary school in Sheffield, in protest at plans to give sex education lessons to pupils (Report, 25 November), I didn’t know whether to laugh or scream. I have been involved in child protection research for the past 25 years. [...]

Academies drain our education funds, councils warn

Councils are warning that the government’s academy programme is draining resources away from maintained schools – and vulnerable children may be the ones who lose the most It is the government’s flagship education policy. But councils in England are warning that the academies scheme will drain resources from support services used by thousands of conventional [...]

Arts education defended by star-studded campaign

Kevin Spacey and Lord Puttnam among big names from the UK’s creative industries who are supporting a report that highlights the importance of cultural learning and activities Kevin Spacey, Lord Puttnam, Nick Hornby and Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota are at the head of a concerted cultural backlash against government plans to concentrate the British [...]

Education budget faces deepest cut since 1950s, warns IFS

Under-fives, 16 to 19-year-olds and building programmes will suffer as spending is slashed by 14.4% over next four years Education spending is being slashed by more than 14% – the largest cut since the 1950s, Britain’s leading tax and spending experts have warned. Researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), a highly respected thinktank, [...]

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