Tutoring, mentoring and drilling young children to help them pass the controversial 11-plus exam to access selective schools may be making kids less intelligent and the test should be scrapped, ...

Last-minute coaching for children to get them through the 11 plus in Kent is being criticised by a teaching union. Thousands of children across the county are due to sit the exam in September, hoping ...

IT’S an astonishing scenario in any day and age, a headteacher helping a schoolboy to cheat in his exams. But that’s the claim Will Wyatt has made in his latest memoirs, Oxford Boy: A Post-War Townie ...

The figure was revealed by Buckinghamshire Council cabinet member for education, Carl Jackson, who said that of the 9,645 pupils in the county who took the test, just under 38 per cent were successful ...

Tutoring, mentoring and drilling young children to help them pass the controversial 11-plus exam to access selective schools may be making kids less intelligent and the test should be scrapped, ...