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Teachers to hold ballot on strike
Another teachers' strike is threatened - with the National Union of Teachers announcing a ballot for industrial action.

Team sports blamed for health gap
Too much team sport in schools is stopping pupils from learning about individual physical exercise, say researchers.

More state pupils enter Cambridge
The proportion of new Cambridge University students from state schools jumped 7% last year to the highest level since 1981.

Threatened schools decision delay
A process of shutting seven junior secondary schools is to be discussed by councillors on Scotland's Western Isles.

Heads say teens' tests not needed
Head teachers want the national curriculum tests 14-year-olds in England have to sit to be scrapped.

Plan to cut targets for schools
Councils in England could face fewer top-down targets for different groups of pupils under proposals.

School meal guidelines tightened
School meals in England's primary schools are subject to even tighter guidelines from this month.

University funding is 'creaking'
The National Union of Students says England's system for funding higher education is unfair and needs overhauling.

Cambridge drops law entrance test
Cambridge University is no longer going to use the full LNat admissions test from next year.

GCSE poem dropped over knife fear
An exam board asks schools to destroy a GCSE poetry anthology because one poem refers to knife violence.