Student bonuses ‘waste of £100m’

Teenagers in England should not be getting financial bonuses for attending classes and handing in schoolwork on time, the Liberal Democrats say.

4,000 kids under five kicked out of school

More than 4,000 pupils aged only five or under have been suspended from school.

Uni grants cut in £200m gaffe

UP to 40,000 students will lose their grants next year after a £200million funding blunder.

Bonuses for staff who ran SATs fiasco

All but one of agency workforce to get performance-related extra pay.

Thousands of five-year-olds can’t write their own name after a year at school… despite £12bn spent on nursery education

One in seven children struggles to write his or her name after a year at primary school, official figures showed yesterday. Fourteen per cent of five-year-olds – almost 80,000 – are unable to scribble ‘mum’, ‘dad’ or their first name from memory. Some 11 per cent have trouble sounding out the alphabet, and four in [...]

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