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• Exam marking 'cannot be perfect'
  A new body set up to boost confidence in the exams system is to stage a public debate about standards.
• No 'clear advantage to setting'
  Academics claim that there are no clear advantages to setting by ability in primary schools.
• Warnings of problems with Sats
  Schools and markers highlight problems around the administration of this year's tests.
• Ruane outlines transfer test plan
  A new transfer test for NI will take the form of an hour-long literacy and numeracy paper, a minister says.
• Two men in campus terror arrest
  Police arrest two men at the University of Nottingham campus under the Terrorism Act.
• Manchester mulls entry grades
  Entry requirements for students from poorer backgrounds could be lowered at one of the UK's largest universities.
• Academic told: 'Don't tell mum'
  A professor has been told he breached data protection laws in the way he replied to a parent's complaint.
• Clampdown on disability bullying
  Schools in England are being told how to tackle bullying of children with special needs or disabilities.
• School transfer proposals set out
  Caitriona Ruane's plans to reform academic selection cannot go ahead without DUP support, says Ian Paisley.
• Staff to be given training rights
  Workers in England are to be given the right to ask employers for training, the Prime Minister has announced.
• Drive to tackle weakest schools
  The prime minister is promising new legislation to meet his pledge to raise standards in England by 2011.
• Students claim survey dishonesty
  League tables intended to help youngsters to choose universities are being falsified, claim students.
• Parents lacking skills - Grayling
  Many parents simply do not know how to bring up children, says Conservative frontbencher Chris Grayling.
• Tests 'damaging' to school system
  The Sats tests being taken by 11-year-olds in England are damaging the balance of lessons, say MPs.
• 'Come clean' call on Diploma plan
  MPs say the government should clarify its intentions on the future of Diplomas, GCSEs and A-levels.
• Adults 'dropping out of learning'
  A survey says large numbers of adults targeted by skills campaigns are dropping out of learning.
• Pupils prepare for healthier menu
  New guidelines will see changes to the school menu with strict limits on deep fried food and fizzy drinks.
• Snack ban 'helps healthy eating'
  Researchers find that banning all unhealthy food from school is the best way to get pupils to eat healthily.
• Pupils sent home after turf prank
  The entire sixth year of a school is sent home after pupils turfed over the floor of their common room.
• Heads warn of exam 'congestion'
  Pupils about to take GCSE and AS-level exams are put under extra stress by timetabling problems, teachers warn.