Daily Express (UK)

Schools have been criticised for giving teachers a better work-life balance under Government reforms, instead of focusing on improving results.

One in five 17 to 18-year-old drivers admits drink driving, a survey has found.

Some toddlers are being abandoned to cry on their own and exposed to racism in nurseries amid a fall in standards of childcare in England, inspectors have warned.

Nearly a third of students owe more than £10,000, with the average undergraduate £7,500 in debt, research shows.

TEENAGERS scored a record number of top grades in their A-levels this summer, as the national pass rate rose for the 25th year in a row.

STUDENTS planning to go to university this year expect to spend up to £35,000 for their studies, a survey reveals today.

Two 16-year-olds have been recruited as community support officers, it has been confirmed.

Ministers are damaging the lives of children by "dumbing down" education and denying middle-class teenagers the chance to go to university, teachers will be warned.

Plans for a large injection of government cash into youth projects will be announced, as a report warns that British teenagers are the worst behaved in Europe.

All children will receive lessons in how to manage their feelings under a multi-million pound scheme to improve classroom behaviour, Schools Secretary Ed Balls said.

Most teachers have been attacked or verbally abused in the past 12 months, a survey has found.


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A private school education is still the surest way to success in Britain, according to research. A study examining the educational backgrounds of the top 500 individuals in politics, the media, medicine, law and business found more than half had attended independent schools.

Kota Kinabalu: Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman said less than 20 per cent or about 258,000 out of 1.29 million youths in Sabah are actively involved in youth movements and the majority of them are from the city. He said youths from the rural areas faced being sidelined from the mainstream of development that were enjoyed by the youths in the city.

AFTER being attacked remorselessly for our opposition to uncontrolled immigration, this newspaper finds its views increasingly being accepted by the liberal establishment.

Schoolchildren must be taught more about the complexities of religion and its role in a modern world under the threat of terrorism, the school standards watchdog has urged.