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Childcare costs shooting up twice as fast as wages
The costs of childcare, a necessity for many parents, are rising fast. But why is nobody talking about it? Gaby Hinsliff writes for Channel 4 News.
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‘Tiger mothers’: the Chinese route to success?
What do the Chinese know about parenting that we don’t? And would their methods ever be acceptable over here? Katie Razzall meets the author of a controversial new book on “tiger mothers”.
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Gove’s ‘academic rigour’ was born at Oxford
As the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, launches a review aimed at restoring “academic rigour” to the national curriculum, Samira Ahmed looks back at the roots of his beliefs.
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Sports study centre cuts could hit key skills
Funding for Playing for Success, an initiative aimed at improving children’s literacy, numeracy and ICT grades through sport, will end this year. Channel 4 News investigates the potential impact.
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Playing for Success: how it works
As a scheme which helps youngsters learn through sport faces funding cuts, Channel 4 News looks at how it works and the benefits it has had so far.
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Schools in England struggle to hit ‘moving target’
An updated league table system for England has left more than 200 schools failing to meet tough new standards branded “even more meaningless than usual”, as Darshna Soni discovers.
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Cameron forces Gove to rethink school sports cuts
Following a public outcry over cuts to funding for school sports, the prime minister David Cameron says there will now be a review of the policy.
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School sports cuts: David Cameron’s statistical sticky wicket
David Cameron says there has not been “a lot of progress” on school sport under Labour, but he’s selective about his statistics, Factcheck finds.
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Gove spells out education reforms
Schools in England are to be given more power and independence but will face tougher academic targets. Gary Gibbon quizzes Education Secretary Michael Gove on the plans.
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School sport funding cut row
The Government plans to slash £162m of funding for sport in state schools. There’s two sides to the story, a teacher tells Channel 4 News, but the move could mean young people get even less fit.
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Michael Gove’s schools spending mix-up
The Education Secretary says the Coalition is spending more than £16bn over the next four years on school building – just under twice what was spent in the first eight years of Labour. Is he right?
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Poorest children to benefit from “fairness premium”
A £7bn “fairness premium” to help disadvantaged children through school will be included in next week’s government spending review, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced.
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Pirate Johnny Depp joins primary school mutineers
Shiver me timbers! Hollywood star Johnny Depp makes a shock appearance as Captain Jack Sparrow to join “mutinous” pupils at a London primary school.
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Ed Miliband’s speech: schools, wages and Iraq
In his first speech as Labour leader, Ed Miliband contrasted his optimism with David Cameron’s supposed pessimism, labelled the Iraq war “wrong”, talked about shelf stackers’ wages, railed against infringements of civil liberties and said he came from a generation of school children who’d been taught in temporary classrooms. But did he get his facts right?
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Clegg: Lib Dems ‘misunderstand’ schools policy
The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg tells Channel 4 News that party members who voted against the coalition government’s plans to set up free schools have misunderstood what the policy is about.