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May 8 2008
GIVEN how long the idea has spent on the drawing board, the Assembly Government’s Foundation Phase for three to seven-year-olds is proving remarkably difficult to implement....
May 3 2008
EDUCATION Minister Jane Hutt yesterday gave a stark description of the challenges facing children in schools across Wales....
Apr 22 2008
THERE is no rift between England and Wales on whether to raise the school leaving age to 18, UK Schools Minister Ed Balls insisted yesterday. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is keen to use the idea as a key dividing line with David Cameron’s Conservatives at the next general election. But the change, due to come into force in 2013, applies only to England....
Mar 13 2008
EDUCATION is once again a main beneficiary in the Budget....
Mar 11 2008
COMPULSORY homework should be scrapped for primary school children because pressure to complete assignments makes pupils unhappy, according to teachers....
Dec 5 2007
WELSH teenagers are performing worse than their counterparts in every other part of Britain at core subjects, according to league tables published for the first time yesterday....
