In Tune

Exam results delayed for 1.2m children

Marking backlog and 'technical issues' mean 1.2 million children will have to wait for Key Stage 2 and 3 results

Jewish school is cleared in race bias case

A leading Jewish state school has been cleared by the High Court of racially discriminating against the son of a convert

No coasting on results, Balls tells schools

Schools judged to be coasting on their good results are to face the threat of direct intervention from central government

Jewish school did not discriminate against pupil

The ruling, which saw JFS cleared of racially discriminating against an 11-year-old boy, has widespread ramifications

Academics plagiarise their own work to stay ahead

The practice gains academics an unfair advantage over more scrupulous colleagues in a 'publish or perish' climate

School governors told 'get insured'

England's 300,000 school governors are being advised to take out insurance to protect themselves against litigious parents

Ed Balls: children should not be told about exams

Head teachers astonished after the Schools Secretary says the best way to prevent exam stress is to disguise the tests

Boy, 16, finds £2m in his account

Teenager thought windfall was linked to sixth-form funding and withdrew maximum £300 to pay for spending spree

University: give more top degrees to beat rivals

Internal memo at Manchester Metropolitan University told staff to 'bear in mind' that rival institutions award higher degrees

Literacy goal for under-5s to be watered down

New curriculum that requires young children to write simple sentences has been attacked by experts as 'overly ambitious'

Comment: ‘we’re looking for positives’

The myth that all candidates have to do to pass a GCSE is write their name on the paper is simply that, a myth

Increase your exam marks with obscenities

Pupils are rewarded for writing obscenities in GCSE English exams

Learning to be British and Muslim

In a controversial report, Cristina Odone argues that traditional Muslim schools are the best means of keeping Islamic girls in education

The A-level marking scandal

A badly marked exam cost Ed Wood his place at Cambridge. Here his mother tells why the family is still angry

Universities told to favour poor schools

Government likely to anger independent schools by telling universities to favour pupils from poorly performing state schools

Run state schools for profit, says senior Tory

Head of the Local Government Association wants private companies running schools with the power to dismiss bad teachers

Novel GCSE in English leaves out literature

A shake-up of GCSE English will allow pupils to study travel brochures or biographies rather than novels

Family meals put pupils at top of exam tables

A study found strong links between how well children get on with their parents and their success at school

Schools segregation worsens over ten years

Schools are now more segregated by poverty than 10 years ago when Labour had just come to power, Government figures indicate

White children most likely to be bullied

White children are much more likely to be bullied than any other ethnic group - reversing racial stereotypes surrounding playground abuse, Government...