What's in store in 2009?
The controversial Sats tests face a make-or-break year, the new diploma qualifications will be expanded and there is talk of American-style report cards. What will happen in education in the next twelve months?
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Celebrations as fire-damaged school re-opens
A Yorkshire school that was decimated by a fire last year has held a special ceremony to celebrate re-opening its doors. More than half the school buildings were destroyed and Portakabin has supplied the school with a range of high-quality teaching blocks and other essential facilities.
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Aim to make all Scottish schools green
 Schools in Scotland are set to receive more help to fit small wind turbines and solar panels, part of a package of measures from the government aiming to make all schools in the country green.
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BSF beats school opening target
A further eight Building Schools for the Future (BSF) schools have opened, taking the total open so far to 50. This is ahead of the target to open 47 by March 2009.
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Could online games be used to educate?
 Online computer games are powerful educational tools and should be used in schools, a professor of Learning Technologies at Harvard University has claimed. What skills does he believe children learn from these games?
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Ding-dong over bell noise
A Teachers' Association is claiming that pupils and teachers' hearing is being damaged as schools try to cut costs by installing a single large and noisy school bell, rather than four smaller ones.
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