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'We want the wow factor'

It is possible for schools to shake off the constraints of the curriculum and be creative, says Naomi WestlandSeven-year-old Rayhan is talking excitedly about next week's medieval day. She will go to school dressed as a maid or princess, not just for fun, but as part of a themed learning system

Fewer than one in three pupils taking history GCSE

Tories blame league tables for drop in number of teenagers taking history over last 10 years

Lecturers may boycott immigration 'snooper' rules

May 26, 2009 - Government plan to combat terrorism by using university and college staff to monitor foreign pupils

Apprentice scheme 'out of cash'

Government's plan to encourage companies to train workforces with public money on brink of collapse

Top university language departments face harsh cuts

Some classes will be scrapped, linguists warn, as funding is diverted to science subjects Some of the country's most prestigious universities – including Oxford, Edinburgh and King's College London – are facing swingeing cuts to their language departments because the governmen ...

Woodhead says Ofsted is irrelevant. Change of heart or sour grapes?

He denounced useless teachers (there were 15,000 of them, remember) and trendy progressive methods in the classroom,

Pakistani gang 'pocketed millions' in bogus college scam

Businessman arrested for enrolling young men from al-Qaida heartland in fake UK colleges

Nearly 3,000 school arson attacks in two years

Figures from Conservatives' freedom of information request show highest number of incidents in Scotland and in London

Let universities design new A-levels, Tories say

The proposals will reduce the number of top grades awarded making it easier to pick the best students

Cheating has always been around - but the internet is making it far worse

Everywhere in the world plagiarism by students is on the increase, with information directly lifted from Wikipedia or Google, says Marcel Berlins