Summary: The growing trend to allocate secondary school places by lottery has lead to an increase in the number of children applying to and attending, private schools.

Summary: The target driven culture has been blamed again for the poor quality of education in England’s Primary Schools

Summary: Primary school children in England are subject to more testing at a young age than most other western countries.

Summary: Hundreds of village schools are set to close as they are failing to meet government targets for pupil numbers. The falling birth rate and a demographic shift are said to be responsible.

Summary: Research by Cambridge University has found that failure to teach children basic skills in reading writing and maths is damaging the economy.

Summary: A recent survey form the National Literacy Trust on Primary school children, conducted into early reading skills and reading perception, has shown that children who define themselves as readers think of themselves as happier and more intelligent than peers who do not read…

Summary: The reading performance of children in England has fallen from third to 19th in the world in a major assessment the BBC reported 28th November 2007. Scotland is reported as falling from 14th place to 26th.

Summary: Many parents are not prepared to leave the education of their children in the hands of the state. Teaching your child to read is seen as having a significant impact on a child’s early education, and the right education is increasingly seen as the route to attainment and life opportunities.

Summary: Education collides again with politics as the Conservatives announce that every child under a conservative government would be expected to read by age six

Summary: In a column written by India Knight of the Sunday Times it is reported that the UK’s Gifted and Talented programme is failing children.

Summary: Daily Express (18th October 2007) reports, along with many other papers, that Ofstead teams judged 1 in 10 schools inadequate...