Education policy

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  Student numbers cap is lifted, but questions for government linger

  Guardian Professional, 16 Dec 2013: Universities rightly concerned over lack of detail on funding and how research activity might be hit, says Paul Clark

• Response: theatre in education has never been a 'happy accident'

  Guardian Professional, 16 Dec 2013:

  Denigrating educational theatre for the cause of art in schools ignores a vital part of theatrical history, says Paul Kleiman

• A narrow education has failed 'New Labour' students like me

  14 Dec 2013: Harry Cunningham: Our school system's focus on assessment, rather than learning, deters pupils from developing real enthusiasm for a subject

• Government shuts free school amid claims taxpayers' money was wasted

  13 Dec 2013: Lord Nash says weak leadership and unqualified teaching means Discovery New School in West Sussex must close

• Free schools: why the fight goes on

  13 Dec 2013: Michael Gove's free schools project has been controversial to say the least. Yesterday, one of the first to open was ordered to close. Meanwhile, fierce local battles continue to rage

• More than half of new free schools opened with spare places, figures show

  13 Dec 2013: Nearly one in four opened with only 60% of the number of pupils they hoped to attract

• Does higher education make you think?

  Guardian Professional, 13 Dec 2013: In focusing on higher education's systems, says David Watson, are we overlooking whether (and how) it works on its students?

• Universities UK withdraws advice on gender segregation in lectures

  13 Dec 2013: Body that represents higher education institutions says it is reviewing guidance after criticism from PM

• Michael Gove: university gender segregation is 'pandering to extremism'

  13 Dec 2013: Education secretary says Universities UK should withdraw guidance that allows male and female students to be separated

• Higher education budget faces multibillion-pound shortfall

  12 Dec 2013: George Osborne admits he will not be able to fund new policy of abolishing controls on student numbers by selling off loan book

• Ofsted chief calls for formal tests for children aged seven and 14

  11 Dec 2013: Sir Michael Wilshaw says exams should be reintroduced 'for benefit of children' as he launches Ofsted annual report

• Ofsted chief advises return to formal pupil tests to improve teaching

  11 Dec 2013: Sir Michael Wilshaw says abolishing Sats tests for children aged seven and 14 was wrong and fed vested interests

• Access to best teaching is down to luck, says Ofsted

  11 Dec 2013: Inspectors hail inner-cities and say bad schools can be found in affluent areas

• How London Challenge turned capital's schools around

  11 Dec 2013: Mike Tomlinson: Arising from a simple moral imperative – to have every young person in London receive a good, or better, education – the project has demonstrated how poor school performance can be challenged

• Is Nick Clegg's free school meals idea turning into a dog's dinner?

  10 Dec 2013:

  In 10 months' time schools are meant to offer free hot meals to all infants. But many headteachers say it's just not going to happen, finds Hannah Fearn

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