Daily Telegraph (UK)

The theory of creationism should be taught alongside evolution in school science lessons, a leading biologist and education expert said.

Number of Chinese students at British universities rose by 15pc in year, while US students fell by similar level. Statistics from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service have disclosed that 4,976 students from China will start higher education courses this autumn at the UK's universities and colleges.

Children in care should be given the right to sue the local councils responsible for their "shameful" education and upbringing, according to a report out next week.

The number of private school students admitted to Cambridge University has slumped to a 27 year low.

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin claims he acted "rationally" in executing millions of people in the Gulags, a Russian school book claims. It is designed for teachers to promote patriotism among the Russian young, and seems to follow an attempt backed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to re-evaluate Stalin's record in a more positive light.

There's a belief that languages either come naturally to a person, or they don't. But to the late Michel Thomas, the "world's greatest language master", there was no such thing as a bad student, only a bad teacher

Up to 100,000 pupils will be given one-to-one tuition by specialist teachers amid fears many children are leaving primary school without mastering the basics. Official figures show one-in-five 11-year-olds are failing to reach the standard expected of their age of English and mathematics.

A Cambridge academic and novelist was at the centre of a race row after saying that he would not be able to tolerate living next door to Jamaican neighbours "playing reggae all day".

Teachers did not inform a sixth form student's family that they had taken her to see a doctor two weeks before she died from heart failure. The parents of Kasia Ber have instructed solicitors to bring a legal action against the school after her condition went undiagnosed and her death was triggered by her mobile phone alarm. Kasia, 17, developed palpitations and shortness of breath during a class at Byron Sixth Form College, in Peterlee, Co Durham, on Dec 14 2005. Staff took her to see a GP who diagnosed her with stress and she told them not to tell her parents because she did not want to worry them.

School bans pupils doing cartwheels
A school has banned pupils from doing cartwheels and handstands in the playground. Students were told that all unsupervised gymnastic movements outdoors were not allowed in an effort to protect the children from injury. The move has caused such a backlash from parents the school is now being forced to review its decision after the education minister suggested it should be overturned.

Unruly toddlers should be encouraged to behave with same methods used to cure disobedient dogs, according to an animal behaviour expert.

More than 35,000 children were attacked or threatened with a weapon last year, according to figures from the police.

Thousands of children are starting school with three rotten teeth as improvements in child dental health have stalled, new figures reveal.

Teenagers were required to read a simple thermometer and measure a straight line with a ruler to pass a GCSE maths exam, The Daily Telegraph has learned.

Children all from majority Han race.