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DATE SOURCE ELEVEN PLUS NEWS HEADLINE
11 May 05 ProPC British school kids overcharged for software
11 May 05 BBC Boy barred from school next door
10 May 05 BBC Students confused about fees
10 May 05 Guardian GCSE recall after exam papers go missing
10 May 05 Guardian Long way round
10 May 05 Cheshire Schoolboy runs internet firm alongside exams
10 May 05 Young People Now Exam stress: Testing times
10 May 05 BBC Private pupils do ‘hard’ A-levels
9 May 05 Scotsman Half A Million GCSE Papers Recalled
9 May 05 Scotsman Examiners' cheep tricks
9 May 05 BBC More girls in independent schools
9 May 05 Times More choose private education as parents lose faith in state
8 May 05 BBC Exam boost for pupils if pet dies
8 May 05 BBC ‘Good effects’ of small classes
7 May 05 Times Boost my exam marks, please sir -- the cat's been run over
7 May 05 Christian Today Re-Elected British Labour Government Pledges £500m to Rebuild ...
7 May 05 BBC 'I was bullied because of my hair'
7 May 05 BBC Education agenda set on reform
7 May 05 Guardian 'As I see it, life is an exam that you have to keep passing and ...
6 May 05 Inquirer UK schools could halve IT spending by dumping Microsoft - report
6 May 05 Wales Help parents bring up decent kids
6 May 05 FT A passionate Dr Arnold strides again
6 May 05 Yorkshire £150m plan to replace secondary schools
5 May 05 BBC School's A-levels wrongly marked
4 May 05 London Labour's pledge to master three Rs
4 May 05 Telegraph Bravo for boys
3 May 05 Times of India Indian kids shine bright in Britain
3 May 05 Guardian Career doctor
3 May 05 Guardian Unspoken promises
3 May 05 BBC Tips for exam success
3 May 05 BBC Top tips for exam success
3 May 05 Scotsman Could Do Better - Heads' Verdict on Kelly
3 May 05 Guardian Read my lips: whatever happened to that promise?
3 May 05 Times School heads lose a champion
2 May 05 Guardian 'We are real teachers teaching real teachers'
2 May 05 Scotsman Outraged parents to protest in new school places row
2 May 05 BBC 'Teach risk' says business boss
2 May 05 Guardian It's a tough one ...
2 May 05 Socialist Resistance grows to Labour’s academies plan, where big business ...
2 May 05 Times Stop this tinkering and scrap A levels, say heads
2 May 05 BBC Warning of school ‘parent power’
1 May 05 Guardian Time for teachers to just say 'no'
1 May 05 Scotsman Heads Demand School Admissions System Review
1 May 05 BBC Minister is booed by School heads
30 Apr 05 Financial Times Too many targets make a priority of everything
30 April 05 BBC I will break the law says head
29 April 05 BBC Heads back parent lessons for all
29 April 05 BBC Heads denounce exorbitant costs
28 April 05 BBC Net-illiterate failing ‘failing children’
27 April 05 Telegraph Hypocrisy at the heart of Labour's education policy
27 Apr 05 Mail Is Blair risking a bloody nose?
27 Apr 05 London Labour school selection row
27 Apr 05 BBC Schools top priority, says Blair
27 Apr 05 London Party's line... and the reality
26 Apr 05 Scotsman Every School Must Be A Good One, Says Kelly
26 Apr 05 Bucks Angry parents pack out public meeting
26 Apr 05 Times Labour's policy plays truant
25 Apr 05 Mail End of grammar schools has helped widen class divisions
25 Apr 05 BBC Poor 'need more school support'
25 Apr 05 Sun Rich/poor gap gets wider
25 Apr 05 Times Demise of grammar schools leaves poor facing uphill struggle
25 Apr 05 Guardian Some choose, some lose
25 Apr 05 Telegraph GCSE exam papers will be sent to India for marking
25 Apr 05 Times Demise of grammar schools leaves poor facing uphill struggle
25 Apr 05 Bucks Poorer schools may miss out on sniffer dogs
25 Apr 05 Telegraph Poorest pay for failures of state schools
25 Apr 05 Telegraph The grammar lesson
25 Apr 05 London Woman earns £100,000 helping students cheat
25 Apr 05 London Woman earns £100,000 helping students cheat
25 Apr 05 London ‘Give my son a place at school’
25 Apr 05 Independent Pupils give top marks to flexible boarding trend
25 Apr 05 Guardian Private deals block Jamie's school dinners
23 Apr 05 Scotsman Far too few nurses for school care
23 Apr 05 Times Studying for a degree costs less in Ireland
23 Apr 05 Times Katie Grant: If we treat teen mums too well, they’ll multiply
23 Apr 05 Scotsman Unruly Pupils 'To Be Sent to State Boarding Schools'
22 Apr 05 Telegraph Boarding schools for state pupils to be built
22 Apr 05 Guardian Ex-laureate condemns classics-free GCSE
22 Apr 05 London Classics are kicked off the curriculum
22 Apr 05 London 'Give £500 to parents of struggling children'
21 Apr 05 Scotsman Private school heads warn of chaos over 'charity' test
21 Apr 05 BBC Graduate gloom about job chances
21 Apr 05 BBC Lib Dems focus on education plans
20 Apr 05 Times24 Pupils' school blaze drama
20 Apr 05 London School where they speak 58 languages
20 Apr 05 BBC Call for 'bottom-up' exam reform
19 Apr 05 Bucks Parents demand grammar places
19 Apr 05 Mail Working mums' children eat better
19 Apr 05 Telegraph Children of working mothers have healthier diet
19 Apr 05 FT Britain seeks right balance for funding
19 Apr 05 Bucks Head and LEA both criticised
19 Apr 05 Telegraph Pupil profiles may be best solution
19 Apr 05 Scotsman Most Secondary Schools Have Drugs Problem - Heads
19 Apr 05 Scotsman Ten Property Hot-Spots Where Prices are Booming
19 Apr 05 Herald A generous school of thought
19 Apr 05 Herald Millionaire Tory peer invests in future of home town children
18 Apr 05 Yorkshire Schools gamble for the brightest
17 Apr 05 Silicon GCSE mobile cheating hits record high
17 Apr 05 Sunday Times Katie Grant: School values the state seems unable to offer
16 Apr 05 Belfast Telegraph Opposition to 11-plus plans deepens
15 Apr 05 Telegraph A civilising subject for teenagers
14 Apr 05 BBC Grammars reject 'admission plans'
14 Apr 05 Independent Howard under fire over state school comments
14 Apr 05 Guardian Howard bets on phonics to improve literacy
14 Apr 05 BBC Graduate debts rise to £2.46bn

14 Apr 05 Times How not to get lost in translation
13 Apr 05 Daily Mail Pupils have ten maths teachers in two terms
13 Apr 05 4ni Conservatives pledge 'thousands' of faith schools
13 Apr 05 BBC Plan to let Ofsted close schools
12 Apr 05 BBC Tories propose more faith schools
12 Apr 05 Scotsman School boards go back to the drawing board
12 Apr 05 Scotsman Woodhead plans low-cost private school for capital
12 Apr 05 Guardian Teachers Say Parents Get More Aggressive
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12 Apr 05 Scotsman Primary school class sizes increase in city
12 Apr 05 FT Steep learning curve for government's schools policy
12 Apr 05 Bucks Grammar schools battle stepped up
12 Apr 05 BBC Many fail to get chosen schools
12 Apr 05 Guardian What would you do to get your child into a good school?
11 Apr 05 Guardian Dead language not dead lessons
11 Apr 05 BBC Labour attacks 'drop-out culture'
11 Apr 05 BBC Sue violent parents, say Lib Dems
11 Apr 05 BBC School children to get ID cards
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11 Apr 05 Guardian Cook the books
11 Apr 05 Telegraph Teacher faked address to find daughter school
10 Apr 05 Independent Labour to give parents power to sack heads
9 Apr 05 Herald Blair declares education is key
9 Apr 05 Sunday Telegraph State school tests teaching in mixed age groups
9 Apr 05 Financial Times Blair puts education at heart of party manifesto
9 Apr 05 BBC Essays marked by a computer program
8 Apr 05 Reuters Study says only boys benefit from tutoring
8 Apr 05 BBC Doubts over extra tuition success
8 Apr 05 Telegraph Private tuition for pupils is a major growth industry
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7 Apr 05 Watford School's redevelopment put on hold
7 Apr 05 FT The big little spenders
7 Apr 05 Telegraph A waste of my time and parents' money
7 Apr 05 BBC Online essays sold many times
7 Apr 05 Bucks Catchment areas to change again
6 Apr 05 BBC Colleges best for teenage study
6 Apr 05 Guardian Survey shows strong support for colleges
5 Apr 05 Guardian Maths GCSE to be overhauled so every pupil has a chance to get at least Grade C
5 Apr 05 Scotsman Sometimes a comprehensive approach isn't enough
5 Apr 05 Socialist Making a school a business academy
4 Apr 05 Huddersfield Pupils to get brain booster snacks
4 Apr 05 Guardian In search of flexible friends
3 Apr 05 Times Tory education plans
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3 Apr 05 Independent Brown puts education at heart of campaign
3 Apr 05 Independent Sales of Turkey Twizzlers soar as Britain's canteen culture ...
3 Apr 05 Herald Defuse health time bomb by giving every schoolchild free dinners
3 Apr 05 Guardian A father's place is in the classroom
3 Apr 05 Scotsman Where the Main Parties Stand on Education
2 Apr 05 Telegraph Latin's 'last gasp' in state schools
2 Apr 05 Teleraph Own way = best results
2 Apr 05 BBC Football stars to promote reading
2 Apr 05 Telegraph Junk food 'helps
1 Apr 05 Guardian Software problems sound death knell for Latin
1 Apr 05 BBC 'Brainband' helps you pass exams
1 Apr 05 Reading Learning curve: education chief bows to opponents' pressure
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1 Apr 05 Guardian On a learning curve after places crisis
31 Mar 05 Bucks Crisis meeting over new 11-plus system
31 Mar 05 Financial Times Kelly underlines ideal of equal chance for all
31 Mar 05 BBC Women 'pushed into girls' jobs'
30 Mar 05 Scotsman Kelly Accused of 'Grossly Unfair' Attack on Comprehensives
28 Mar 05 Guardian 'I had to wait for pupils dealing drugs on their mobiles'
30 Mar 05 Guardian Comprehensive system is flawed, thinktank to be told
30 Mar 05 Guardian Halt the expansion
29 Mar 05 BBC Parental choice 'is an illusion'
29 Mar 05 MyFinance House prices linked to school performance, finds Halifax
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28 Mar 05 Guardian Teachers unite to fight city academy scheme
28 Mar 05 The Sun Teachers slam city schools
27 Mar 05 Sunday Times British rule is very real
26 Mar 05 Scotsman Higher House Prices Near Best Schools
26 Mar 05 Harrow Ministers accused over exams system
25 mar 05 London House prices reflect best schools
25 Mar 05 Guardian School plans 'turn back the clock by 50 years'
25 Mar 05 Telegraph Kelly's vocational plans 'will turn the clock back 50 years'
25 Mar 05 Independent Teachers' leader accuses Kelly of creating an unfair '14-plus' ...
25 Mar 05 BBC Teachers oppose education plans
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25 Mar 05 BBC Most school dinners under 50p
25 Mar 05 Telegraph Eton master attacks ' buying' into Oxbridge
24 Mar 05 BBC Teachers warn against selection
24 Mar 05 Kent Ministers accused over exams system
23 Mar 05 Financial Times Ministers emphasise technical skills
23 Mar 05 Telegraph Getting a better deal by going abroad
23 Mar 05 London Teenage A- level dropout starts his own airline
22 Mar 05 Guardian Kelly announces FE skills academies
22 mar 05 BBC Pupils taking horse tranquilisers
21 Mar 05 Politics Lib Dems - GCSE's becoming an increasing irrelevance
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21 Mar 05 Independent Education investment fails poorest pupils
21 Mar 05 Telegraph 'Kids are like wild mustangs'
21 Mar 05 Telegraph Pupils make more progress in 3Rs 'without aid of computers'
21 Mar 05 Yorkshire Legal challenge likely on school admissions
20 Mar 05 Telegraph Some schools ' institutionally racist'
20 Mar 05 Guardian Middle classes fill best state schools
20 Mar 05 Telegraph Parents fight Labour's 'stealth attack' on grammar schools
20 Mar 05 Telegraph Report reveals 'institutionally racist' schools
20 Mar 05 Telegraph Teachers see God as 'too boring
20 Mar 05 Sunday Times 1 in 7 teachers are ‘assaulted by their pupils’
19 Mar 05 Telegraph Do the right thing
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19 Mar 05 Times British pupils are happy to bury Germany's swastika stereotype
18 Mar 05 BBC Anti-bullying campaign by father
18 Mar 05 Guardian Private academies fail Commons exam
18 Mar 05 BBC Car containing exam papers stolen
18 Mar 05 Guardian New test for entry- level teachers
17 Mar 05 London Academies at bottom of school league tables
17 Mar 05 New Statesman Britain's rich kids do better than ever
17 Mar 05 BBC MPs call for a halt to academies
17 Mar 05 BBC Performance warning over 3Rs
17 mar 05 Independent Teachers threaten walk-out after deal to cut hours is blocked
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17 Mar 05 Times O Ridiculus Mus, Kelly
17 Mar 05 Times Welcome to the shame academy
17 Mar 05 BBC Why the fuss over city academies?
17 Mar 05 New Statesman Teach us all a lesson
16 Mar 05 ePolitix Flagship academies among 'worst' schools in England
16 Mar 05 Louth School admissions blunder
16 Mar 05 BBC Performance warning over 3Rs
16 Mar 05 Edinburgh Not just the pupils facing a taxing test
16 Mar 05 Scotsman Answer parents' private school concerns
16 Mar 05 Times Er, what Tory schools policy?
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16 Mar 05 Harrow Less to learn in Latin and Greek
15 Mar 05 BBC Teachers oppose ‘city academies
15 Mar 05 Guardian Cheer for the second tier
15 Mar 05 Bucks Computer problems to blame for 11+ confusion
15 Mar 05 Halifax Now say you’re sorry
15 Mar 05 Guardian Bright sparks
15 Mar 05 BBC School stereotypes 'being broken'
15 Mar 05 BBC A better education in Africa?
15 March 05 Scotsman The only class that counts is classroom
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15 March 05 Guardian School project 'breaking down stereotypes'
14 Mar 05 BBC Much tougher to go to university
14 Mar 05 Scotsman Why the middle classes are still fair game
14 Mar 05 Telegraph Oxford owns up to a bias against girl applicants
14 Mar 05 Daily Mail Taxing Britain's home-owners to destruction
14 Mar 05 Telegraph Children left with grandparents 'fall behind at school'

14 Mar 05 Guardian School medicals are back to fight obesity
13 Mar 05 Scotsman A real class struggle
13 Mar 05 Sunday Times Universities to cut intake of private schools pupils
12 Mar 05 Mirror Francais pour les enfants
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12 Mar 05 Independent Focus: Should boys and girls be educated separately?
11 Mar 05 Telegraph Record number to miss out on a place at university
11 Mar 05 Scotsman Should private schools be stripped of charity status?
11 Mar 05 Yorkshire School spins up a storm with logo to replace old crest
11 Mar 05 Oxford A degree of snobbery
11 Mar 05 BBC £ 115 mn boost to language learning
11 Mar 05 BBC University places harder to get
11 Mar 05 Independent Morris resigned because she feared Humphrys interview

11 Mar 05 Politics Kelly announces cash for language drive
10 Mar 05 Spiked Making learning uncool
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10 Mar 05 Scotsman Kelly Acts to Reverse Decline in Language Teaching
10 Mar 05 BBC Primary School bans pencil cases
10 Mar 05 BBC Gifted schools ‘getting better’
10 Mar 05 BBC University denies quota claim
10 Mar 05 Independent Chinese revolution
9 Mar 05 BBC Top head says keep science exam
9 Mar 05 Ireland What have the British ever done for us
9 Mar 05 Sun What a waste of money
8 Mar 05 Spiked Keeping black boys in the ghetto?
8 Mar 05 Australian Race expert wants black-only classes
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8 Mar 05 Guardian How to help black boys
8 Mar 05 Guardian 'It makes me feel like I am being put down'
8 Mar 05 Scotsman Segregating Black Boy Pupils 'May Have Negative Impact'
8 Mar 05 Independent CRE boss accused of apartheid schooling
8 Mar 05 BBC Black classes 'could be illegal'
7 Mar 05 Wales Howard canes Labour overloss of school discipline
7 Mar 05 Politics Black boys may benefit from separate teaching
7 Mar 05 Mirror Teachers to ignore Kelly plan

7 Mar 05 Telegraph 'Gifted' tick box that could cost pupils a university place
7 Mar 05 Times Learning from the US example
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7 Mar 05 BBC Schools to 'ignore diploma plans'
7 Mar 05 Scotsman Parents' fury at 'child factory' pre-school plan
6 Mar 05 Telegraph The best 'small group' is a grammar school
6 Mar 05 BBC Howard attacks Blair's 'contempt'
6 Mar 05 Guardian Black absentee fathers should lose rights, says head of race ...
6 Mar 05 Scotsman 'Black Boys May Need Separate Classes to Whites'
3 Mar 05 London Kelly refuses to step into school uniform row
3 Mar 05 Newcastle Blair to outline school reform plan
3 Mar 05 Scotsman Blair to Present 'Mini-Manifesto' on School Reform
3 Mar 05 BBC Labour offers tailor-made tuition
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3 Mar 05 Guardian Full text: Tony Blair's education campaign speech
3 Mar 05 London 25% of pupils have private tutors
2 Mar 05 Liverpool Pupil's school books turn back the pages 200 years
2 Mar 05 Yorkshire Woodhead criticises 'twaddle' curriculum
2 Mar 05 Independent History exams seriously flawed, say teachers
1 Mar 05 Scotsman History Exams Badly Flawed Says Report
1 Mar 05 BBC History exams 'seriously flawed'
1 Mar 05 Guardian History teachers call for subject overhaul
1 Mar 05 Newcastle Parents fear crisis over school places
1 Mar 05 BBC School in fear of ‘gang culture’
1 Mar 05 Public Technology UK exam board to roll out online submission of GCSE & Key Skills ...
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28 Feb 05 BBC Labour targets hardcore truants
28 Feb 05 BBC Delay to secondary school offers
28 Feb 05 Telegraph Pupils are kept waiting over new schools
28 Feb 05 BBC Languages in schools 'in decline'
28 Feb 05 Telegraph Pupils are kept waiting over new schools
28 Feb 05 Scotsman Software Glitch Hits School Admissions Scheme
28 Feb 05 Harrow Independent schools get glowing reports
27 Feb 05 Scotsman School fee rises to bust inflation yet again
27 Feb 05 Sunday Times City tempts teens with gap-year cash
26 Feb 05 Independent Why not leave school at 16?
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26 Feb 05 Telegraph Kelly gives Labour its best day this term
26 Feb 05 Telegraph Schools told: don't make pupils read same books year after year
26 Feb 05 Scotsman School fee rises to bust inflation yet again
25 Feb 05 Times Keen chemistry student brings 'napalm' to class
25 Feb 05 Liverpool Lords deny schools right to smack
25 Feb 05 Scotsman Black Pupils Shrink GCSE Grade Gap
25 Feb 05 Computing IT and education: a steep learning curve
25 Feb 05 London 35,000 children in overcrowded classes
25 Feb 05 Newcastle Heads fight back over parents of unruly pupils
25 Feb 05 BBC Blind GCSE pupils' exam quandary
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25 Feb 05 Guardian Two ethnic groups narrow exams gap
25 Feb 05 HT UK Indian, Chinese kids outperform Whites
24 Feb 05 Guardian You don't need an A- level to spot the flaw in Blair's logic
24 Feb 05 Times Congratulations Ms Kelly. Schools need your masterful inactivity
24 Feb 05 BBC College lecturers strike over pay
24 Feb 05 BBC Schools challenge ban on smacking
24 Feb 05 BBC Poor pupils go to worst schools
24 Feb 05 BBC Teachers top unpaid overtime poll
24 Feb 05 Birmingham Kelly sent to the back of the class
24 Feb 05 FE News Mixed Reaction To Kelly’s White Paper
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24 Feb 05 Scotsman A-levels to remain 'gold standard' as Kelly rejects call to scrap
24 Feb 05 Financial Times Pledge to focus on school basics
24 Feb 05 Guardian Outcry at Kelly's exam reforms
24 Feb 05 Guardian Failing the test
24 Feb 05 Guardian 'I think they are letting the kids down'
24 Feb 05 Guardian Frustration at a missed chance for reform
24 Feb 05 Telegraph Pupils to opt for academic or vocational learning at 14
24 Feb 05 Times Teachers award Kelly black marks for rejecting reforms
24 Feb 05 Independent Biggest reform in exams in 50 years or a golden opportunity thrown away
24 Feb 05 Guardian Teachers reject white paper proposals
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23 Feb 05 Scotsman 'Keeping Exams Gold Standard Could Backfire' - Tomlinson
23 Feb 05 Guardian 'These measures are a radical package'
23 Feb 05 Kent Kelly rejects A-Level and GCSEs axe
23 Feb 05 Guardian Kelly unveils new breed of schools
23 Feb 05 Telegraph Kelly reprieves A-levels and GCSEs
23 Feb 05 Scotsman Kelly Plans Vocational Diplomas Alongside A-Levels
23 Feb 05 Belfast Telegraph Parents back tests ... but not the 11-plus
23 Feb 05 CBBC (Audio) GCSEs and A-Levels 'set to stay'
23 Feb 05 BBC School diploma will be rejected
23 Feb 05 Independent Maths and English to lead exam overhaul
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23 Feb 05 BBC Work based diplomas for teenagers
23 Feb 05 BBC Home-taught girl ordered to class
23 Feb 05 Telegraph Teachers lament lost opportunity for change
23 Feb 05 Independent Teenage girls 'depressed by modern life'
22 Feb 05 Independent Cambridge rejects 5,300 with three top A- level grades
22 Feb 05 Financial Times It is time to teach England's teachers
22 Feb 05 Guardian Opportunity knocks
22 Feb 05 FENews Making The Case For 14-19 Education Reform
22 Feb 05 Guardian 'Well done, mate'
21 Feb 05 BBC Duncan Smith opens black school
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21 Feb 05 BBC End A-level obsession, says MP
21 Feb 05 Guardian Cambridge calls for end of A-levels
21 Feb 05 Independent Heads angered by plan to retain A-levels
21 Feb 05 Wales Parents to sue private school over tragedy
20 Feb 05 Wales Drug bust at top Welsh school
20 Feb 05 Scotsman Government Pulls Back from Abolishing A Level 'Gold Standard'
20 Feb 05 BBC A-levels to stay, says Kelly
20 Feb 05 Guardian When words fail them

20 Feb 05 Sunday Times Schools may ditch literary classics
20 Feb 05 Sunday Times Kelly to insist on harder maths and English exams
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19 Feb 05 BBC China students in fight for visas
18 Feb 05 Belfast Telegraph Pupils 'should not feel they failed'
18 Feb 05 BBC Schools standards rise ‘overstated
18 Feb 05 BBC Parents pledge to fight closures
18 Feb 05 Scotsman Rising Primary School Test Scores 'Exaggerate Progress'
18 Feb 05 Financial Times The other side of the tracks
17 Feb 05 Telegraph Jamie calls for extra school dinner money
17 Feb 05 BBC UK study applicants are up 8.9%
16 Feb 05 Times Specialist schools falter on their chosen subject
16 Feb 05 BBC Specialist schools ‘succeeding’
15 Feb 05 Guardian Teaching of English faces review
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15 Feb 05 Telegraph Model student has feet on the ground
15 Feb 05 BBC University scraps maths degree
15 Feb 05 BBC School trip teachers ‘reassured’
15 Feb 05 Belfast Telegraph Teens go online for 10 hours a week
15 Feb 05 ePolitix Warning on UK skills shortage
14 Feb 05 Telegraph Blair's policy that dare not speak its name: selection
14 Feb 05 Telegraph England comes top in cost of school exams
14 Feb 05 Manchester Kelly heading for exam showdown
14 Feb 05 BBC £610mn exam bill, ‘tragic waste’
11 Feb 05 BBC Student plagiarism on the rise
11 Feb 05 BBC Sounds ‘help pupils with reading’
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10 Feb 05 Telegraph Kelly's chance to make history
8 Feb 05 Downing St Top graduates targeted for inner-city schools
8 Feb 05 BBC Top graduates 'improving schools'
7 Feb 05 Derry An Open Letter To 11+ Pupils
6 Feb 05 Independent Bright pupils to start degrees in 6th form
5 Feb 05 BBC Pupils to receive 11-plus results
5 Feb 05 Independent Week of education setbacks ends with damning report on English ...
4 Feb 05 BBC How should truancy rates be reduced?
3 Feb 05 Independent Still no improvement in 2,000 state schools, but education system ...
3 Feb 05 Telegraph Would-be lawyers flop in essay test
2 Feb 05 BBC School puts emphasis on faiths
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2 Feb 05 Bucks Anti- grammar parents start new bid
2 Feb 05 Belfast Telegraph Funding formula 'could see schools close'
2 Feb 05 Independent Kelly says 300 schools have discipline problem
2 Feb 05 BBC ‘Best of the best’ schools named
2 Feb 05 BBC One in ten schools ‘not improving’
2 Feb 05 BBC Scrap A-levels says Ofsted chief
2 Feb 05 Times No dumbing down in English schools, Ofsted insists

2 Feb 05 Guardian Report reveals rise in number of failing schools
2 Feb 05 Telegraph Boring lessons, Stalinist schools: no wonder children don't behave
1 Feb 05 Times To serve them all my days
1 Feb 05 Guardian Why the culture of failure has been hard to break
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1 Feb 05 Guardian Opportunity locked
1 Feb 05 Guardian The good, the bad and the ugly
1 Feb 05 BBC Fewer youngsters stay in learning
1 Feb 05 BBC Kelly tones down discipline plans
1 Feb 05 Guardian Couldn't care less
1 Feb 05 BBC £15,000 offer to bright students
31 Jan 05 Times Blues in the red
31 Jan 05 BBC Pupils learn Spanish by dancing
31 Jan 05 Times School's out (of money) so find another, pupils told
31 Jan 05 BBC Cambridge records £10.5 mn deficit
30 Jan 05 Guardian Plan to mix state and private pupils
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30 Jan 05 Sunday Times Ministers warned of gulf between schools
28 Jan 05 BBC Private school forced to close
28 Jan 05 BBC Grammars head student access
28 Jan 05 Belfast Telegraph 11-plus 'lottery' review bust-up
27 Jan 05 ITV Make GCSE history compulsory, say Tories
27 Jan 05 Guardian Tories set out school curriculum changes
26 Jan 05 Independent Faith in the system
25 Jan 05 Times League tables and school standards
25 Jan 05 BBC Two-thirds of schools specialise
25 Jan 05 Independent Government 'talked up' skills shortage
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24 Jan 05 BBC Top GCSE pass rates levelling off
23 Jan 05 Guardian Headteachers draw battle lines with Kelly over A-levels
22 Jan 05 Independent Parents given choice reject local schools
22 Jan 05 Independent The Interview: Learning to profit from a good education
22 Jan 05 Independent School's Out
21 Jan 05 Times Green and fleeting land
21 Jan 05 Guardian UCAS to get access to pupils' social data
21 Jan 05 BBC Top girls' school to let in boys
21 Jan 05 BBC Head scraps homework ‘dinosaur’
21 Jan 05 BBC Boom in Masters degrees predicted
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20 Jan 05 Guardian ‘University admission threatens equality’
20 Jan 05 Graduate Engineer Britain’s young engineers get into fast lane
20 Jan 05 Edinburgh Private Schools 'Not Singled Out' in Charity Reforms
20 Jan 05 Mirror SCHOOLS INC
20 Jan 05 BBC High-flyers heading for classroom
20 Jan 05 Telegraph Independent schools must throw off their chains
19 Jan 05 Reading School Choice System may go
19 Jan 05 Times A tale of two suburbs, one with hope, the other without
19 Jan 05 Birmingham Parents 'get no choice of schools'
19 Jan 05 Independent Study reveals inequalities of university places
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19 Jan 05 Guardian Why five As and two Bs can beat nine A*s
19 Jan 05 Guardian Grammar lessons are wrong for writers
19 Jan 05 Independent Schools 'are wasting their time teaching grammar'
18 Jan 05 Guardian Lessons of the past
18 Jan 05 Times January blues
18 Jan 05 BBC Formal grammar is 'ineffective'
17 Jan 05 Independent Pupils from disadvantaged schools get easier route into Cambridge
16 Jan 05 Scotsman Maths GCSE Score of 17% Awarded 'B' Grade
16 Jan 05 Times - Scotland Independent Schools: Best of ancient and modern
15 Jan 05 Scotsman GCSE Students Fail Politics Test
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15 Jan 05 Epping What a mistake
15 Jan 05 Telegraph B grade for pupils who get 83pc wrong
15 Jan 05 Sunday Times Independent Schools: Right school, wrong exam?
15 Jan 05 BBC Making sense of league tables
15 Jan 05 FT What’s in a school’s name
15 Jan 05 Belfast Telegraph Statistics support case for academic selection
14 Jan 05 NewsLetter A secret war waged on Grammar schools
14 Jan 05 Manchester We’ll turn school around in three years
14 Jan 05 London Borough bottom of the class
13 Jan 05 Yorkshire Table shows dramatic improvements amongst the unfashionable alongside perennial achievers
13 Jan 05 Birmingham We are on the way up
13 Jan 05 Birmingham League table blow masks work
13 Jan 05 Guardian Turning the tables
13 Jan 05 Politics Seasonal row as league tables are published
13 Jan 05 Birmingham Midlands schools amongst the worst
13 Jan 05 Newcastle Improvement in results
13 Jan 05 Independent The winning formula
13 Jan 05 Independent New exam tables dismissed as worthless
13 Jan 05 Independent Muslim girl’s school leads the way
13 Jan 05 BBC Girl’s school adds most value
13 Jan 05 BBC Top GCSE results
13 Jan 05 BBC High points of schools results
13 Jan 05 Times State schools top the table but private rival schools cry foul
13 Jan 05 Guardian Murphy’s Law
13 Jan 05 London GCSE results blasted as useless
13 Jan 05 East Anglia Suffolk pupils set new GCSE records
12 Jan 05 Cambridge County pupils still shinning in exam results
12 Jan 05 BBC Grammars shine at adding value
12 Jan 05 BBC School is most improved again
11 Jan 05 Guardian Stick or twist
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11 Jan 05 BBC School run 4x4 targeted
11 Jan 05 Guardian Inside job
11 Jan 05 Guardian Inside the orange room – how pupils are tested for drugs
10 Jan 05 BBC Schools spend more on technology
08 Jan 05 Telegraph Great Expectations (11+)
08 Jan 05 Birmingham Ex-teacher abused boys
08 Jan 05 BBC Kelly keeps tight-lipped
07 Jan 05 Telegraph You could make such a difference
07 Jan 05 BBC Skills-only schools only to be recommended
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07 Jan 05 London 37 schools in capital amongst the best in Britain
07 Jan 05 Politics Evidence lacking between more investment and better GCSEs
07 Jan 05 N London Attack on schools spending
07 Jan 05 BBC Cash deals to lure rural teachers
07 Jan 05 Telegraph You could make such a difference
07 Jan 05 BBC Skills-only schools only to be recommended
07 Jan 05 London 37 schools in capital amongst the best in Britain
07 Jan 05 Politics Evidence lacking between more investment and better GCSEs
07 Jan 05 N London Attack on schools spending
07 Jan 05 BBC Best of the best schools listed
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07 Jan 05 Guardian Inspectorate names all-time super schools
07 Jan 05 BBC No proof that cash lifts GCSE Grades
07 Jan 05 Guardian Full text of Ruth Kelly’s speech
06 Jan 05 Politics Bush & Blair push childcare vision
06 Jan 05 Independent Ministers promise ‘ruthless’ drive to promote literacy
05 Jan 05 BBC Small class pupils do not do better
05 Jan 05 BBC Parents key role in schooling
05 Jan 05 Manchester MBE for teacher who shaped Africa’s Eton
06 Jan 05 Scotsman City pupils to take exam a year early
04 Jan 05 BBC School starts drug testing
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04 Jan 05 BBC Anti-bullying group a bully itself
04 Jan 05 BBC Tobacco smoke dulls child’s brain
04 Jan 05 BBC Business chiefs led at school
04 Jan 05 Guardian Out of the equation
03 Jan 05 Independent How to make your children articulate? It’s a long story
03 Jan 05 Independent Kelly will champion the rights of parents to choose schools
03 Jan 05 Financial Times Teachers ‘opposed to super schools’
01 Jan 05 Yorkshire Schools face up to class divide
01 Jan 05 Leeds A little corker wins hero award
01 Jan 05 BBC Students offer new year exam tips
31 Dec 04 Guardian Ministers unlikely to scrap A-Levels
31 Dec 04 Telegraph School leaving diploma will be Kelly’s priority
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