BBC Education News

• Jamie Oliver in new meals attack

  The TV chef Jamie Oliver says healthy school food standards are being eroded.

• Gove warns teachers over strikes

  The education secretary says there is no "hidden pot of gold" to improve the deal on the table for teachers preparing to strike over pensions.

• £1bn scheme targets young jobless

  Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says a £1bn plan to provide subsidised work and training placements will "provide hope" to thousands of young people.

• Mothers 'fear playgroup cliques'

  Worries about being ignored by unfriendly parents are more likely to put off deprived parents from playgroups than cost or location.

• Young jobless 'need good GCSEs'

  Cities in England with high youth unemployment must do more to raise young people's attainment in maths and English, a report says.

• Call for fast-track degree access

  The Scottish government accuses some universities of putting up barriers to recruiting students from further education colleges.

• PM: Take strike children to work

  Employers should allow staff to bring children to work where possible, during a large-scale public sector strike next week, David Cameron tells MPs.

• Plan on child sex exploitation

  The problem of under-18s being groomed for sexual activity takes place "in far greater numbers than was ever imagined", say ministers as they launch an action plan in England to tackle the problem.

• Willetts abandons Cambridge talk

  Universities Minister David Willetts is forced to abandon a speech at Cambridge University after it was disrupted by protesters.

• Tory students burn Obama effigy

  An effigy of US President Barack Obama is burned by members of the Conservative student association at St Andrews University.

• Ofsted attacks 'coasting schools'

  There are too many schools not showing enough ambition to push their pupils, says the annual report from education watchdog Ofsted.

• Child welfare standards not met

  Four nurseries in York are told they have failed to meet legal requirements on child welfare.

• History 'compulsory to 16' call

  History should be compulsory in England's schools until the age of 16, says historian Sir David Cannadine.

• Girls growing up in 'moral abyss'

  Girls are growing up in a "moral abyss" where being dressed in "mini-me" sexy clothing is deemed acceptable, a schools leader says.

• Warning over child poverty in UK

  The Children's Commissioners for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are warning that child poverty could rise.

• Call for PE tests in UK schools

  Sports medicine specialists call for mandatory PE tests in schools to create an Olympic legacy of fitness.

• Disabled children excluded from education

  One in three children out of school worldwide is disabled

• Fairness challenge from first global education 'laureate'

  First global education laureate's fairness challenge

• UK school tech show moves to Abu Dhabi

  Flagship UK education technology show moves to Abu Dhabi

• New York schools enter the iZone

  New York's pioneering plan to re-invent the school