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Teachers say an increasing number of pupils are wetting themselves at school, because they are not toilet trained.

The 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens's birth has prompted Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to get his cabinet colleagues in the mood to celebrate one of Britain's greatest writers.

Parents seem to want boys in co-educational schools but reckon girls do better in single-sex establishments.

Charles Dickens biographer Claire Tomalin says children are not being taught to read with the attention span necessary to appreciate the novelist's works.

Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg says Labour made a mistake in not putting enough emphasis on the 50% of young people who do not plan to go to university.

A top girls' school is planning a "failure week" to teach pupils to embrace risk, build resilience and learn from their mistakes.

The more young people come into contact with employers the less likely they are to drop out of school and become unemployed, research suggests.

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The BBC's Nicola Smith looks at how literacy levels can be raised

Schools should be allowed to delay a new exam system if they are not ready to implement it, Scotland's largest teaching union says.

Children are to get legal rights to maintain relationships with both their parents, as part of a shake-up of the family justice system.

A college plans a new course devoted entirely to taking photographs on the iPhone

The incoming fair access watchdog says universities will be fined for failing to recruit more students from poorer backgrounds.

Welsh schools do not appear to be achieving results as good as those in England - on several measures the gap is widening.

The results of England's academy schools are being inflated by the over-use of vocational equivalents, analysis suggests.

The head of the Student Loans Company will have tax and National Insurance payments deducted from his £182,000 pay package in future, ministers say.

Further education colleges are going to offer thousands more degree places, previously provided by universities.

The presence of killer fibre asbestos in most UK state schools constitutes a "national scandal", says an all-party group of parliamentarians.

Pupils who shout out in class achieve better results than their counterparts who appear to be better behaved and quiet, suggests research.

A review into claims of tax avoidance by top civil servants is ordered by Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander, after a BBC Newsnight investigation.