State boarding school boom: surge in pupils living away from home

Number of places on offer rises by more than 25% – an increase driven by family breakdown and pressure on working parents State boarding schools are witnessing a surge in popularity, with the number of places rising by a quarter over the past decade – an increase driven in part by family breakdown, which has [...]

Tech Weekly: highlights from CES

Guardian Technology editor Charles Arthur takes us through some interesting trends from CES 2012 – 3D printing, ultrabooks and smart TV. Plus Aleks is joined by Matt Brian from The Next Web and Guardian developer Dan Catt to discuss this week’s news – which includes Michael Gove’s plans to revamp IT education in UK schools, [...]

Stephen Twigg admits he would cut £2bn from Labour schools plan

Shadow education secretary admits last administration failed to get value for money from its school building programme Stephen Twigg, the shadow education secretary, has admitted that Labour did not always get “value for money” in education and that he agrees with more than half of the government’s cuts to school building programmes. Twigg, who was [...]

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 [...]

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