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The new Foundation Stage will focus on 17 core areas of development in the pre-school years . A simpler, less bureaucratic system for assessing how young children in England are developing is to be announced. The Early Years Foundation Stage, which currently has 69 benchmarks, will be reduced to just 17, focusing on basics like physical development and language. The EYFS has been statutory since 2008 and sets out targets for learning and welfare for childcare providers. But there has been criticism that it makes carers spend more time …

Sunday Telegraph
By Laura Donnelly, Health Correspondent 27 Mar 2011
It is the dilemma facing every working mother – how to devote enough time to their children, while juggling career demands with household chores. Now, a new study has disclosed that in Britain, those who work outside the home spend on average one hour 21 minutes a day looking after their families – including meal times. Stay-at-home mothers managed almost twice as much time directly caring for their children, with 2 hours 35 minutes dedicated to activities like meals, bathtime and playing …

Published: Thursday, 20 January 2011

A review of the National Curriculum for 5 to 16 year olds in England has been launched. The review will consider what subjects should be compulsory at what age and what children should be taught in the main subjects at what age. The aim is to give teachers greater freedom and ensure the curriculum compares to the best school systems in the world. Have your say
The National Curriculum sets out what key subjects are taught in schools in England. Not everything taught in schools is part …

A review of the National Curriculum for 5 to 16 year olds in England has been launched. The review will consider …

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Anna Davis, Education Correspondent London Evening Standard
14.09.10
Thousands of London families are set to benefit from an overhaul of the primary school allocation system unveiled today. A new applications system is being introduced meaning parents will fill in just one form and all offers will be made on the same day.Under the previous system offers were made on different dates by each authority and parents had to apply to each authority separately. Parents were also able to hold on to offers for weeks until they received results from every authority. This …

The TES on 10 September, 2010 | By: William Stewart
Goves urges parents to compile their own tables but publication of all Government data would be overwhelming to some, say critics
Parents should create their own bespoke school league tables from exam results and extra data soon to be published on the internet, ministers said this week.
Education Secretary Michael Gove said he wanted to create greater transparency and end parents’ dependence on the measures of school performance that Government decides to use.
But parents groups and teaching unions have given the plan …

All courses full at Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh and Warwick nine days before A-level results, Guardian poll finds Clearing will be ‘even briefer and tighter than last year’. Several universities, including Warwick, have announced their courses are already full nine days before A-level results arrive. Record numbers of A-level students are being turned away…

Nick Collins Telegraph
02 Aug 2010
Children and parents have been left in confusion after the government published the results of sats tests and teacher assessments together for the first time Photo: GETTY Pupils who sat this year’s exams face being awarded different marks in the same subject if teachers’ appraisals do not match their test scores. Sats were designed to give parents an indication of the academic standard their child has reached and to help schools stream pupils into the correct classes. Teachers now assess each pupil’s performance over the …

By Richard Garner, Education Editor
Monday, 5 July 2010
Heads and senior school managers must “gird their loins” and rid their classrooms of incompetent teachers, the new chairman of the House of Commons select committee on education says today.In his first interview since taking office, Graham Stuart acknowledged that heads would need more training to carry out the task of sacking bad teachers. He was speaking as a BBC Panorama investigation to be broadcast tonight reveals that only 18 teachers have been struck off because of incompetence in the past four decades.This …