BBC News - Education & Family

9 December 2011 Last updated at 08:36 ET

Third suspension over exam claims

A chief examiner has been suspended following allegations in the Daily Telegraph that she suggested a course was easy.

The pilot run of a new reading test for six-year-olds suggests two-thirds of pupils are likely to fail it when it is introduced in England.

Welsh councils miss top school band

More than a quarter of Wales' 22 councils have no schools in the top band of a system which identifies the best and worst performers.
UK students 'lack global outlook'

Business leaders are warning that students in the UK are lagging behind in developing an international outlook, needed for a globalised economy.
Big rise in school exam regrades
'No evidence' for school decline
Fees 'may mean fewer scientists'
Heads qualification not required
700 extra student places for NI
Class sizes up teacher rates down
'Traditional' family not typical

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Teaching to the test

Secrets of exam board seminars revealed by a teacher
Breaking away

Why more UK students are switching to the US
'My moral dilemna'

Head teacher on deciding whether or not to strike over pensions
Banana teasers

Why Oxbridge interview questions are not as eccentric as they seem
Home is where heart is

Former pupils set up house in their old school.
Robot Olympiad

International robotics competition arrives in the Middle East
To serve and protect

Are America's campus cops failing in their duty?
History in schools

How teaching the past has changed down the years
Hot topic

Why is free milk for under-fives such a sensitive political issue?