Tasmin Kelly found her daughter was bored as a brownie but not as a cub.

The countryside is more dangerous for children that the city, argues Frances Hubbard.

Marek Bzikot chose the wrong school for his son, but the answer was on his doorstep.

Re-housed animals gave her great joy, says Christopher Middleton.

About 150,000 students stand to gain up to £1,000 a year in extra grants if they defer entry to university until next year, the government has admitted.

The Christian Union at the University of Exeter is set to sue the university and students’ guild after a ruling that non-Christians should be allowed to join the society.

Oxford University has postponed plans for a £29m extension to the world famous Bodleian Library on the banks of the Thames while the impact of this week’s severe flooding is assessed.

Cheating by teachers to improve pupils’ exam results is rare, insists the schools secretary, Ed Balls, after a BBC investigation reveals evidence of trickery to boost results.

Schools could earn about £1,500 a year for each disadvantaged child on their rolls, the Lib Dems promise in a policy paper.

Tom Leonard finds he was well ahead of the game with a nanny from Tibet.

Forget history and geography. The hot new subject in schools is entrepreneurship. Today’s pupils are being given lessons in how to take risks, manage money, solve problems, seize opportunities and market ideas. Along the way they are learning teamwork, leadership, time management and IT skills. And they are consolidating their basic education ? in the real world, children quickly come to realise, you have to be good at writing, reading and calculating to get anywhere.

Last week’s report on history teaching by Ofsted, the education standards watchdog, gives a worrying insight into the way the subject is taught in schools. It has often been forgotten that history, like modern foreign languages, suffered a slump in take-up once it stopped being a compulsory part of the national curriculum after the age of 14. But that is not the main point of the report. Even before children reach 14, it appears, they get few lessons on chronological history ? of either the UK or the world.

Hilary’s advice

Sometime in the early Eighties, heading home from school, I was a quivering wreck. My geography teacher had called me “erratic” in my report.

I am shaken after my brush with an assault charge. One of the main instructions from the agency is to never touch a child. I don’t believe in physical punishment; it appears that I hadn’t been paying proper attention.

Teenagers should be forced to stay after school to take part in activities such as sports and drama clubs, says the Institute for Public Policy Research.

The splitting of the education department looks like a loss for post-16 education outside of universities - but if ministers are brave, it could be a great opportunity, says Mark Corney.

Thousands of literary texts are now available online, all submitted by volunteers. Is this the most enlightened initiative since English studies was invented? John Sutherland reports.

English language lessons for migrant women working in the UK sex industry aim to tackle exploitation by clients and bosses. Diane Taylor reports.

The further education system is perceived as second best to higher education, and so lacks a national profile that some describe it as invisible, according to a new survey.

The government is to crack down on fake colleges that enlist immigrants who come to Britain to work while pretending to be students, it has emerged.

No sector has seen more changes this year than further education. Mira Katbamna finds out how it’s been.

An independent Bank of England has done wonders for the economy. It’s time education followed suit. Jim O’Neill reports.

Is a six-term year really such a lousy idea, asks Jonathan Wolff.

In the first of three extracts from Could Do Better! inspirational teacher Phil Beadle starts by identifying different types of children and looking at how they absorb information.