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Headline: The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) is developing on screen ICT tests
Description: The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) is developing an onscreen test to provide an independent measure of pupils' attainment in information and communication technology (ICT) at key stage ...
Date: 25.09.2005
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Headline: University drop-out rate rising
Description: Some Scottish universities had the highest drop-out rates
Student drop-out rates are on the rise, the latest official figures suggest.

The number of students who quit after the first ye...
Date: 25.09.2005
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Headline: Parents 'raise £73m for schools'
Description: Parental fundraising should not be underestimated, the NCPTA says Parents' groups in England, Wales and Northern Ireland raised £73m for schools last year, a survey suggests.

The National C...
Date: 24.09.2005
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Headline: Teenage truancy increases sharply
Description: Truancy rates in England's secondary schools rose by over 10% last year, according to government figures.
Despite £900m spent on anti-truancy initiatives, the annual figures show the highest tru...
Date: 23.09.2005
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Headline: Pupils try university SATS entry exam as option for fairer admissions system
Description: A new study will look at the benefits of a SATS university entrance test Tens of thousands of A-level students are being invited to take part in a trial of a US-style university admissions test.
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Date: 21.09.2005
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Headline: Education 'in a mess' says head
Description: Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has not met the head teacher
An independent school head teacher has said the education system is "in a total mess" and Education Secretary Ruth Kelly is "a disaster...
Date: 21.09.2005
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Headline: How much do we understand the statistics sloshing around in education?
Description: I was musing on this after a reader accused us of increasingly using "woolly statistics" that were, he said, "meaningless".

We had another crop of statistics this week with the publication o...
Date: 21.09.2005
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Headline: Internet Poll finds it helpful for homework
Description: Internet Poll finds it helpful for homework

Do you find the Internet helpful for homework?
votes
Yes 768 83%
No 107 12%
Don't know 51 5%

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Date: 18.09.2005
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Headline: Call for new inquiry into Blunkett
Description: David Blunkett is facing calls for an inquiry into new allegations that he abused his position as a Cabinet minister.

Mr Blunkett denies getting an official to check whether his son was caug...
Date: 18.09.2005
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Headline: First born children are "more successful" than their siblings
Description: A 10-year study of nearly 1.5 million Norwegians has concluded that, regardless of family size and income, the eldest child is the most successful academically and at work.
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Date: 18.09.2005
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Headline: Slang creeps into English exams
Description: English examiners have complained about the use of slang expressions such as 'gonna', 'ain't' and 'shouda' in GCSEs this year.

Markers for the exam board Edexcel said "almost unforgivable" b...
Date: 17.09.2005
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Headline: Pupils taught wrong English text
Description: The school spotted the error once the exam began
Pupils at a Merseyside private school went into an English Literature GCSE exam having been taught the wrong book.

Birkenhead School, wh...
Date: 17.09.2005
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Headline: ICT Sats exams take place on internet
Description: ICT Sats exams take place on internet
23/05/2005


Teenagers sitting Sats exams in information and communications technology (ICT) have been carrying out their tests over the internet...
Date: 15.09.2005
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Headline: Britian plunges down world exam league Evening Standard 13.09.05
Description: Britain has tumbled down an international league table of exam results.

High drop-out rates combined with years if low standards in comprehensives pushed the UK from 13th to 22nd in the annua...
Date: 14.09.2005
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Headline: Results show that use of the thinking tools had a major impact on the children
Description: The results show that use of the thinking tools had a major impact on the children in the target group, both in terms of their optional Year 4 reading and writing national test results and more genera...
Date: 11.09.2005
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Headline: Parents protest over Sats tests
Description: Teachers also complain that the tests narrow the curriculum
A couple are keeping their 11-year-old daughter off school while her class take Sats tests next week because they say the tests are rui...
Date: 10.09.2005
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Headline: Outcry over 'upsetting' Sats test
Description: 600,000 children took the English test. There has been an outcry over a Sats test for 11 year olds in which they were asked to describe the feelings of a girl whose grandfather had suffered a stroke. ...
Date: 10.09.2005
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Headline: Government welcomes Sats results
Description: Tuesday, 23 Aug 2005 13:05 Schools minister Jacqui Smith has welcomed news of a slight improvement in school test resultsSend Us FeedbackEmail this to a friendPrinter friendly versionThe government ha...
Date: 10.09.2005
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Headline: Sats results show slight improvement
Description: Primary school Sats results showed a slight improvement this year, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) has revealed.

The latest figures show a one per cent improvement in the numbe...
Date: 10.09.2005
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Headline: SATs - screwed-up arguments
Description: National school tests might have problems - but that doesn’t make them child abuse.

by Jennie Bristow

Forget violent pupils and middle-class parents taking their kids on holiday...
Date: 10.09.2005
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Headline: Concerns over Sats raised
Description: Following the debate surrounding the ability of GCSEs and A-levels to sufficiently stretch the top candidates, primary school tests are to come under the spotlight.

There are increasing worri...
Date: 10.09.2005
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Headline: SATs are changing: Good News or Bad?
Description: Cate Campbell discusses the new ‘flexible’ approach to key stage 1 testing, explaining how it will affect those in the foundation stage.

News that SATs testing in England will become le...
Date: 10.09.2005
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Headline: Suicide of father who thought he had failed his child
Description: A father threw himself under a train because he thought he had failed to get his he had failed to get his daughter into the school she wanted.

Steve Don felt his inability to secure a place ...
Date: 10.09.2005
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Headline: Sharpen your brain!
Description: Researchers say that increasing intelligence by inserting genes into humans is a long way to go. In the meantime we should do the following:

1. Learn just one new thing every day.

2....
Date: 04.09.2005
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