Basing admissions to some schools on faith fragments the education system.
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Kibaki’s goals were to expand access to education, and to make universities more efficient and self-sustaining.
Getting more children into secondary school in Kenya requires striking a balance between top-down policy and bottom-up implementation.
Allowing new faith schools to religiously select 100% of their pupils is not only problematic in terms of social integration, it is simply unfair.
The influence of private interests in English schools is on the up.
The government’s search outside the UK for the next chief inspector of schools is misguided.
The system of oversight of England’s academy schools has been criticised by MPs.
South Africa’s fee exemption system is at the heart of a deepening divide in the country’s school sector. It’s time for a major relook at how this policy is applied.
When Higher Education gets involved in our children’s schooling, we risk widening inequalities and creating ethical dangers.
A slide in Sweden’s performance on international education rankings has led to calls for more reform.
The new majority Tory government now has the confidence in pursuing its aspirational education manifesto.
Working out how to solve the school place shortage will be a key priority for any new government.
After five years of polarising and radical reforms, the Tories aren’t letting up on their vision for schools.
From the academies programme to the size of school budgets, the issues to watch in this election campaign.
Including faith schools as part of a broader network is a surer way of bringing communities closer together.
Education secretary Nicky Morgan said free schools push up standards in neighbouring schools and are popular and effective.
On BBC Question Time on February 5, Labour’s shadow education minister Tristram Hunt made a remark appearing to link weak, unqualified teachers to religious education, specifically Catholic schooling provided…
It is not yet possible to tell whether the government’s flagship academies policy has been “a positive force for change” in the English education system. That’s the finding of a long-awaited report by…
The thorny issue of what democracy is, what it’s not and whether it is an appropriate system for government has been at the top of the agenda at the start of 2015. At the same time, we are in the lead-up…
The Durham Free School is to have its government funding removed in a snap decision made by Nicky Morgan, the secretary of state for education. The move comes after a damning Ofsted report which found…
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