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Here you will find News Headlines that were reported in December 2010.

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December 2010 

31/12/10
School league tables to include languages and humanities

Review of the year

30/12/10
December Schools and Inspection Available

Riots, reviews and results: Why 2011 will prove to be a steep learning curve for students and teachers

29/12/10
Simon Hughes is new 'access to higher education' tsar

Poor pupils 'fall further behind between seven and 16'

CCTV is used to spy on teachers

28/12/10
A million UK children 'lack access to computers'

Reforms and redundancies kill off music in state schools

Michael Gove: my revolution for culture in classroom

27/12/10
Ministers accused of free book funding 'partial U-turn'

24/12/10
Knole Academy gets go-ahead for £17.5m rebuild

More than 500 pupils excluded for assault or abuse every school day

School sports U-turn reflects well on Cameron – and badly on Gove

23/12/10
Booktrust reading schemes to lose government funding

21/12/10
Gove: “I want competitive sport to be at the centre of a truly rounded education”

20/12/10
Special needs pupils account for seven in 10 permanent exclusions from school

Michael Gove backtracks over school sport funding

75% of schools face cuts

18/12/10
Education review of the year 2010

Thousands of boys start secondary school 'barely able to read'

17/12/10
Children to be tested at six for reading ability

Four new members appointed to Department for Education Board

The Department responds to the Institute of Fiscal Studies report on the Pupil Premium

16/12/10
More than 50% of five-year-old boys making too little progress, data shows

Meet the parents: Schools are finding better ways to give pupil feedback than parents' evenings

15/12/10
Schools may lose out as Gove ends funding gap for post-16 education

Key Stage 2 achievement statistics published

Nearly 1,000 primary schools fail to meet targets

Primary school league tables could see over 900 closed or taken over

Travel grant for poorest pupils may be scrapped

14/12/10
Education spending - Statement by the Secretary of State for Education on schools financial settlement

Pupil Premium - Statement by the Secretary of State for Education on schools financial settlement

Schools' budgets will not rise above inflation for four years

Students taking maths post-16: Japan 85%, UK 14%

London borough set to bring education back in-house

13/12/10
Schools spending 'will not rise in real terms'

More than £800m set aside to provide short breaks for disabled children

12/12/10
Schools' pupil premium for England set at £430

UK brought to book over our teenagers' lack of literacy skills

Education – not a right but a privilege

Tackling bad behaviour 'is not our job', teachers claim

One in four trainee teachers is a dunce: Thousands struggle to pass simple literacy and numeracy tests

10/12/10
Scheme to improve London schools is working – Ofsted

Warning over primary school places as birth rate soars

09/12/10
Schools Minister Nick Gibb responds to Key Stage 2 attainment statistics

Ofsted head Christine Gilbert in talks to leave early and join academy sponsor

Ofsted: Number of children's services departments performing excellently doubles

08/12/10
Secretary of State comments on PISA study of school systems

MPs 'should resist cheap shots' over education data

Nativity photos not against law, says data watchdog

School pupils in Westminster protest over sport cuts

Save our schools

07/12/10
UK schools fall in global ranking

Kids Company school faces funding axe

Poor children 'fall behind classmates after two years of school'

Gove pledges exam overhaul as school standards slip

05/12/10
Labour to take flak as OECD survey poised to reveal pupils' failings

League tables for five year olds

03/12/10
Ofsted: Schools must develop partnerships to improve skills

01/12/10
Cameron orders rethink on school sports cuts

100,000 pupils 'squeezed into full schools', figures show
 


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