Last updated 10/05/2007
EDUCATION - FURTHER EDUCATION
LSC launches single scheme to ensure achieving equality and diversity is at the centre of its work
LSC Press Release
08/05/2007
The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) has launched a Single Equality Scheme which brings together the LSC's policies on race, gender and disability. This will ensure a coherent framework for promoting equality and diversity within the organisation and across the learning and skills sector.
More proportionate inspections for further education colleges
Ofsted Press Release
09/05/2007
From September 2007 further education colleges will be subject to an inspection system that is even more proportionate to risk.
EDUCATION - HIGHER EDUCATION
Post-92 universities 'more effective' than older colleges
The Guardian
03/05/2007
New universities are more academically effective than those in the research-led Russell group, the results of a controversial study have revealed.
University to join NHS trusts in joint healthcare venture
The Guardian
04/05/2007
Imperial College, London, is to become the first university to play a significant part in the running of an NHS trust in England under reorganisation plans for the west of the capital.
EDUCATION - SCHOOLS
False abuse claims ruining lives of teachers, says Lord Chancellor
The Guardian
07/05/2007
Teachers' lives and reputations are being "trashed" by false allegations of abuse made by children and parents, the Lord Chancellor said yesterday.
Going to school 'not compulsory'
BBC Education News
08/05/2007
Parents in England are being reminded that they have the right to educate their children at home if they wish. Proposed Department for Education and Skills guidelines on "elective home education" stress that education is compulsory but schooling is not.
'Illegal talks' over school academy sponsors
The Birmingham Post
03/05/2007
Secret talks are illegally taking place between heads of schools set to become academies in Birmingham and their potential sponsors, union officials claim.
Ministers back sanctions to curb bullying on schools buses
The Guardian
07/05/2007
Pupils who persistently misbehave on school buses face bans on using them or exclusion from school under government guidance to be issued this week.
Twinning plan to stop race divide
BBC Education News
07/05/2007
Schools with a predominantly white pupil intake are being told to twin with ethnically-diverse schools - to foster better community relations.
