Why do so few children in care go on to university? This article from the 'Guardian' looks at the issues and looks forward to an up and coming research report, which analyses this problem from a European perspective.

Boys are clearly falling behind girls in reading, writing, maths and science after just two years at school, according to DfE figures. The gap is widest in writing, with one in four boys failing to achieve Level 2 compared to around one in...

Isabel Nisbet, the chief executive of Ofqual has called for the scrapping of school targets focused on the achievement of C-grade GCSE passes. She has also criticised the current system of league tables and called them...