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14 May 2008 Press : Conservatives attempt to poach Lord Adonis

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14 May 2008 Press : Tories attack scruffy teachers

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13 May 2008 Article : I'd love to read The Gruffalo for the 777th time but, alas, duty calls

It's not a clincher when you say you can't do the bath because you have to take a call from Radio Rockall, on whose drive-time phone-in you're guesting. | more

13 May 2008 Speech : Education and Skills Bill: Admission Arrangements

Michael Gove calls on the Government to put less emphasis on manipulating access to good school places and more on increasing the number of good schools in the first place. | more

12 May 2008 Press : 1 in 7 pupils passes fewer than 5 GCSEs

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12 May 2008 Press : Minister defies critics on school leaving age

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10 May 2008 Press : Brighton College drops history, geography and RE

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9 May 2008 Local : More drug offences detected by police

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9 May 2008 Press : Children being failed by progressive teaching, say Tories

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9 May 2008 Written Question : Food: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many people are training to teach food technology. | more

9 May 2008 Written Question : Literacy: Teaching Methods

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which reading programmes are approved by his Department for the teaching of synthetic phonics. | more

9 May 2008 Written Question : Teaching Methods

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will place in the Library (a) the latest data obtained by Ofsted on the extent of setting in schools, broken down by subject, age and pupil and (b) a copy of his Department’s guidance on setting. | more

8 May 2008 Written Question : General Certificate of Secondary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many eligible pupils did not obtain five GCSEs at any grade, excluding equivalents, in each year since 1997. | more

7 May 2008 Press : Truancy up 4,000 per day

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7 May 2008 Written Question : Cadets: Armed Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many cadet forces were operating in maintained schools in the latest period for which figures are available. | more

7 May 2008 Written Question : Departmental Cost Effectiveness

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what Gershon savings his Department and its predecessor have made since 1 April 2005. | more

7 May 2008 Press : Interview with Michael Gove

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6 May 2008 Article : Sex and the City, an episode in emptiness

The hardest thing in life is knowing when it's over. Realising that your moment's passed, the mojo's gone, you are now in that terrible zone where the harder you try to make yourself relevant, the more it shows how past it you are. | more

6 May 2008 Press : Time to examine Conservative policies

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6 May 2008 Written Question : Misconduct: Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many allegations of assault or professional misconduct against teachers by pupils were reported to the police in each year since 1997. | more

6 May 2008 Press : Poorer children more likely to fail exams

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5 May 2008 Press : Boris Johnson to learn from Michael Bloomberg

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5 May 2008 Press : Primary schools suspend 1,000 under-sixes

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5 May 2008 Press : 240 primary pupils sent home each day

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4 May 2008 Press : National Song-book project falls flat

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1 May 2008 Written Question : Food: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many teachers are qualified to teach food technology. | more

1 May 2008 Written Question : Gifted Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools are not taking part in the gifted and talented programme. | more

1 May 2008 Written Question : Headteachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the average age of (a) primary school and (b) secondary school headteachers was in each year since 1997. | more

30 Apr 2008 Written Question : Gifted Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many local authorities are not taking part in the gifted and talented programme. | more

30 Apr 2008 Written Question : Pupil Exclusions

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils in secondary schools were given a (a) fixed period and (b) permanent exclusion in the last 12 months, broken down by local authority index of multiple deprivation decile. | more

30 Apr 2008 Press : David Cameron is profiting from 10p tax row, but for how long?

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29 Apr 2008 Written Question : Cadets: Armed Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what funding his Department has provided to cadet forces in schools in the last three years. | more

29 Apr 2008 Written Question : Education Maintenance Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of those in post-16 education were in receipt of the education maintenance allowance in the latest period for which figures are available. | more

29 Apr 2008 Written Question : General Certificate of Secondary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of eligible pupils gained no A* to C graded GCSEs in 2007, broken down by (a) multiple deprivation decile and (b) local authority area. | more

29 Apr 2008 Written Question : Higher Education: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals went on to higher education upon leaving school in each of the last three years for which figures are available. | more

29 Apr 2008 Written Question : Teaching Methods

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of lessons in each school year were set in the latest period for which figures are available. | more

28 Apr 2008 Written Question : Teachers: Misconduct

To ask the Solicitor-General how many allegations of assault or professional misconduct brought against teachers by pupils were referred to the Crown Prosecution Service in each year since 1997. | more

28 Apr 2008 Written Question : Education Maintenance Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what forecast he has made of his Department’s expenditure on education maintenance allowance over the next 10 years. | more

28 Apr 2008 Written Question : GCE A-level

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of eligible pupils were entered for an A-level examination in 2007, broken down by (a) local authority area and (b) multiple deprivation decile. | more

28 Apr 2008 Written Question : General Certificate of Secondary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of pupils gaining five A* to C GCSEs, including English and mathematics, were awarded five C grades in 2007. | more

28 Apr 2008 Written Question : General Certificate of Secondary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many otherwise eligible pupils were not entered for any GCSE examinations in the last year for which figures are available. | more

28 Apr 2008 Written Question : General Certificate of Secondary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what percentage of eligible pupils were not entered for an English, mathematics, science nor foreign language GCSE in each year since 1997. | more

28 Apr 2008 Written Question : Pre-School Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department has spent in developing the early years foundation stage profile. | more

28 Apr 2008 Written Question : Pupil Referral Units

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils have been educated for longer than three years in a pupil referral unit. | more

28 Apr 2008 Written Question : Pupil Referral Units

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children were being educated in pupil referral units in each local authority area in England in the latest period for which figures are available. | more

28 Apr 2008 Written Question : Pupils: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families in how many schools more than 50 per cent. of pupils spoke English as a second language at the latest date for which figures are available. | more

28 Apr 2008 Written Question : Pupils: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools have more than 50 per cent. of pupils with English as an additional language, broken down by local authority index of multiple deprivation decile. [202109]

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28 Apr 2008 Written Question : School Leaving: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate he has made of the annual cost to his Department of compulsory education to the age of 18 years. | more

28 Apr 2008 Written Question : Schools: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools have more than 1,500 pupils, broken down by index of multiple deprivation decile. | more

28 Apr 2008 Written Questions : Schools: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many former school sites have been sold since 1997. | more

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