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Government’s key adviser on Academies makes millions ...from setting up Academies

Graham McAvoy

Leaked documents show ex-physics teacher behind Labour’s flagship schools charges £800 an hour to set up Academies.

Mixed-sex schools can 'crush' girls' ambition, says leading headmistress

Schoolboys and schoolgirls sitting exam

Pupils at girls-only schools are more likely to be confident and aspire to enter fields such as politics, according to Elizabeth Allen, head of a girls' grammar.

Big Brother quiz for new school parents: Officials launch 83-point probe into families' lives

Mother and daughter talking with teacher

Parents are questioned over whether they have friends, if they can speak freely with others in their family and how well they did at school themselves.

Don't make a meal of it, I'm a working mum

Judith Woods is shocked that Britain's mothers have a repertoire of nine recipes – she can think of five.

Loan bosses left students broke, yet still took huge bonuses

Many students have endured a miserable time waiting for their student loan

Student loan chiefs collected five-figure bonuses this year despite presiding over a fiasco which left thousands starting university in poverty.

Middle class families to lose more than £2,000 a year in childcare vouchers despite Brown U-turn

Child asleep in a child car seat

Under pressure from women Labour MPs who said mothers would quit work over the plans, the Prime Minister is to make a U-turn on his decision to scrap the scheme entirely.

'I'll give away my lifetime's earnings': Ethics professor pledges to donate £1million to help the poor

Dr Toby Ord, an academic at Oxford University, will give up 10 per cent of his annual salary, plus any yearly earnings above £20,000 for the rest of his career.

Top public school closed as swine flu strikes 100 pupils

Christ's Hospital school in West Sussex

Parents at Christ’s Hospital in West Sussex have been told to remove their children from the boarding school this weekend.

More than half of the UK population doesn't accept climate change is man-made

Pollution

Poll shows only 41% of Britons accept human responsibility for climate change as a scientific fact.

Star of 'City to teaching' drive suspended in probe over girls

When he gave up his £150,000-a-year job in banking to become a teacher on just £30,000, Nick Hamlyn (pictured with his wife) was held up as a shining example of the Government's drive to tempt City high-flyers into education.