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Two leading grammar schools are found guilty of failing to run fair admissions appeals.

Britain's performance in a league table of universities has improved, but the US still dominates.

£340m of extra funding has been announced to give three and four year olds more free nursery time.

Support grows for a 14-year-old girl excluded from school for refusing to remove a religious bangle.

A row is growing over plans to shut Stoke's most successful school in a £200m area reorganisation.

The Sikh Federation backs a 14-year-old girl excluded from school for refusing to remove a religious bangle.

Research by a Welsh think-tank claims the closure of small schools can improve educational standards.

Parents as well as young people will have a legal duty to comply with the raising of the education leaving age.

Teaching for tests in maths and English deprives primary school children's education, a study says.

A transport company is beginning a review of the use of US-style yellow school buses in the UK.

The government sets out the details of plans to raise the leaving age and to expand apprenticeships.

The University of Surrey hopes to offer degrees in which students might move each year between countries.

Three quarters of graduates are in full-time jobs three and a half years after leaving university, a study says.

The government is planning apprenticeships, advice and raising the school leaving age to tackle teenage drop-outs.

Less than half of GCSE-age students are learning European languages, the Liberal Democrats claim.

Solar panels, a wind turbine and a nature habitat on the roof are part of a new £3.7m eco-friendly school.

A BBC poll suggests 76% of people are upbeat about their families' future, compared to 52% in the 1960s.

Less than half of GCSE-age students are learning European languages, the Liberal Democrats claim.

Plans to keep teenagers in education or training until 18 will be included in the Queen's Speech on Tuesday.

Mike Baker measures up Gordon Brown's one-size-fits-all target for England's secondary schools.