News

Major firms shelve ‘approved’ A-level lists

Fears that some A-level pupils are discriminated against in the workplace because of their subject choices may prove unfounded...

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Nicky Phillips
News

It’s not what you play, it’s how long you do it for. . .

Children who play computer games for more than three hours a day are more likely to be hyperactive, not...

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Nicky Phillips
News

EXCLUSIVE: Exam overhauls ‘force’ Cambridge to plan entry tests

– University consults on bringing back own entrance test after 29 years – ‘What I hear is a lot...

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Nicky Phillips
Features

David Blunkett, MP and former education secretary

Boxes are stacked around the wood-panelled office. Folders top the piles. A framed portrait is propped against the wall. A...

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Nicky Phillips
Opinion

“If I were education secretary I would…”

I would first recognise the excellence in state schools throughout the country. I would do this by indicating what...

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Nicky Phillips
Opinion

“If I were education secretary I would…”

The first thing I would do is drastically limit my own powers, and those of my successors, by irreversibly...

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Nicky Phillips
Opinion

“If I were education secretary I would…”

I would face the facts. Since the advent of high-stakes testing, many schools have become depressing places for students...

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Nicky Phillips
Politics

Pupils bridge the generation gap

A group of tech-savvy Salford pupils have been helping local pensioners get to grips with tablet technology as part...

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Nicky Phillips
Politics

Hampshire team get the chequered flag

Victory at the F1 in Schools UK national finals will give two students from Robert May’s School in Hampshire...

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Nicky Phillips