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Friday 29 August 2014
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Professor Brian Cox says that universities need to work alongside schools to raise aspirations, help close the skills gap, and make pupils aware of STEM opportunities
Below are some example questions taken from the new spelling, punctuation and grammar tests sat by 11-year-olds when they finish primary school
Hundreds of thousands of pupils left primary school this year without basic literacy and numeracy skills despite an improvement in SATs results across the board
Alan Milburn, head of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, condemns the scale of 'elitism' at the top of British public life as he calls for companies to engineer a more socially-balanced workforce
One in three adults who were bullied at school claim that it has had a negative impact on their career prospects and self confidence, new research suggests
Lisa Wilks was due to sit 15 exams in five different subjects at a sixth form college as part of her plan to a forge a career as a scientist
Research by the Local Government Association finds a £1bn shortfall in funding to create more school places, with some primaries going to extreme lengths to expand
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