• Education ‘narrower than in Victorian era’• Labour accused of ‘Stalinist’ approach• Scrap Sats and league tables says biggest study
Schoolchildren should not start formal lessons until they turn six, and Sats should be scrapped to relieve the damaging pressure England’s young pupils face, the biggest inquiry into primary education for 40 years concludes today.
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Posts on ‘October 15th, 2009’
Start school at six, key schools report recommends
Generation of pupils being put off school, report says
A devastating attack on what is taught in primary schools is delivered today by the biggest inquiry into the sector for more than 40 years.
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Over 5000 litres of alcohol confiscated from teenagers over the summer
- Successful crackdown on binge drinking in youth crime hotspots … (2009/0189)
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Raising the bar on youth sport
- A new benchmark for youth sport has been set today with the publication of the PE and Sport Survey 2008/09. (2009/0185)
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Nearly half get GCSEs benchmark
Just under half of teenagers who took GCSEs this summer in England got five “good passes” including maths and English.
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Crews tackle severe blaze at town school
About 30 firefighters were called out to tackle a severe blaze at a Shropshire school which badly damaged part of the building and led to hundreds of children being told to stay at home today.
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Child abuse reviews ‘inadequate’
More than a third of official inquiries into England’s most serious child abuse cases are inadequate, Ofsted warns.
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