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Grammars pressed over poor pupils

Grammar schools take half the rate of poor bright pupils than non-selective state schools, research suggests.

Academy sponsor seeks to withdraw

A private firm seeks to end its sponsorship of a city Academy in Middlesbrough.

Independent schools' leader quits

Tim Hastie-Smith, chairman of the organisation for the most prestigious private schools, has resigned.

Private head pulls out of academy

A headmaster who was due to leave the private sector to take charge of a Kettering academy pulls out.

Universities in UK and US 'dominant'

Universities in the USA and the UK continue to dominate a list ranking the world's top higher education institutions.

DfES

British schools abroad to be inspected to guarantee standards

Schools based abroad advertising a British education will be offered accreditation against standards similar to independent schools operating in Britain. (2008/0226)

Joint consultation on school–level indicators to measure well-being

- IMPROVING INFORMATION AVAILABLE FOR SCHOOLS ... (2008/0225)

Article defending the government’s position on smacking

By Rt Hon Beverley Hughes MP Minister for Children, Young People and ... (2008/0224)

Schools to play key role in preventing violent extremism

Schools can play a key role in empowering young people to reject the messages of violent extremism, Ed Balls the Schools Secretary said today as he launched advice for schools on how to contribute to ... (2008/0223)

Department for children, schools and families: the ministerial team

The new ministerial team at the Department for Children, Schools and Families is as follows: Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families - Ed Balls Minister of State for Schools and Learners - Jim ... (2008/0222)

The Guardian

The Independent

Mixed grill of pork with crabapple sauce

A year or so ago I bought some lovely skewers with a pig design on from my favourite cookshop in Paris, E Dehillerin in the Rue Coquillière. I've actually only just started using them but they look great, in a twee sort of way. This recipe involves most bits of the pig but you can really use whatever cuts and offal you fancy. It's also a great way to use rare breed pork from farms where you have to buy a quarter of a beast. Richard Vaughan at Huntsham Farm in Herefordshire does exactly that with his Middle White pork and Longhorn beef.

Duck-neck sausage

Scallops seared in the half-shell, with fennel salsa

Julian Knight: Our watchdog can’t see straight for looking two ways at once

So the iceman goeth – and what a lot of people are being wise with hindsight in the wake of the Icelandic financial disaster. Experts have been falling over themselves to say we told you so – how the country’s banking business model, which it turns out was more akin to a hedge fund than a bank, was a house of cards ready to topple.

The Norman Conquests, Old Vic, London

No Man’s Land, Duke of York’s, London

Love’s Labour’s Lost Courtyard, Stratford-Upon-Avon

Stephen Mangan’s Norman clasps his latest conquest in his arms. Ecstatically sozzled, he has his tongue down his brother-in-law’s throat. Yes, it’s all gone skew-whiff – this family reunion in the country – in Alan Ayckbourn’s cryingly funny trilogy, The Norman Conquests.