Last updated 29/08/2007
EDUCATION - FURTHER EDUCATION
New right to post-GCSE education
BBC Education News
25/08/2007
Schools and councils are required to ensure they have measures to ensure pupils are aware of their post-16 opportunities under what is known as the September Guarantee before they leave school. Ministers have written to local councils in England to remind them of this duty.
Wanted: new breed
The Times Higher Education Supplement
24/08/2007
Colleges with degree-awarding powers will offer fresh opportunities to 'hybrid' lecturers.
EDUCATION - HIGHER EDUCATION
V-cs attack tax-cut lobby's 'Mickey Mouse' criticisms
The Times Higher Education Supplement
24/08/2007
Vice-chancellors have hit back at a report that claims that universities are offering "non-courses" that waste millions of pounds of taxpayers' money.
EDUCATION - SCHOOLS
School uniform 'competition' call
BBC Education News
22/08/2007
There are calls for more schools to allow children to wear cheaper "off the peg" uniform. UK schools were given warnings on uniforms by the OFT earlier this year. Following the OFT report the government published new draft guidelines for schools in England, telling them to make sure uniforms were freely available and affordable. The guidelines are out for consultation at the moment and are due to be formally published in the next few weeks.
Tory plan to let parents set up own schools
The Guardian
26/08/2007
Education is set to become a central battleground between Labour and the Conservatives as David Cameron considers plans that would allow parents to set up their own schools to rival those of the local authority.
