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Extracts from Nursery World’s interview with Elizabeth Truss, Minister for Education and Childcare.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The Education Minister calls for a renaissance in maths to help meet the demand of UK employers, and announces the removal of calculators from key stage 2 tests.
On 9 November 2012, Education and Childcare Minister Elizabeth Truss announced that calculators would be banned in maths tests for 11-year-olds from 2014.
Peter Batley, Debbie Meech and Jonathan Crossley-Holland have been appointed to serve as members of the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) for three years from 1 November 2012.
Details of a plan to improve children's engagement with the works of Shakespeare.
A quarterly supplement to the FE and Skills newsletter (current edition URN 12/P87H). This issue focuses on the Learning and Skills Improvement…
From 2013 prospective teachers will have to sit new tougher tests in English, mathematics and reasoning before they can start training.
The 'Ensuring quality in apprenticeships' report has been published by Ofsted today to look at apprenticeships in more detail.
Details of the plan to improve the teaching of computer science.
Lord Hill speaks at the Studio Schools Trust conference.
Apprenticeship starts rose from 457,200 in 2010/11, at all levels, with particularly strong growth at advanced and higher levels. Skills…
Details of a new scheme to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I.
New report shows the gap between educational achievement of children in care and their peers continues to widen.
Hundreds of children who are permanently excluded from school are to be part of a new trial in which headteachers will be responsible for ensuring that they continue to receive a decent education.
Information on the success of the English Baccalaureate.
A report published today by Ofsted highlights the benefits and pitfalls of partnership working in music education.
New baseline designs for new schools are published today, which will see them built more efficiently, sustainably and cheaply.
New teacher training scholarships in chemistry led by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) have been announced today.
Applications are now open to allow schools to register for School Direct.
National, regional and local authority results for the year 1 phonics reading check and key stage 1 results are published today.
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