UK News 25-02-2005 who: Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) what: Says a third of primary school classes are failing literacy targets when: Tuesday snippet: "Almost half of boys and a third of girls continue to leave primary school unable to write properly," reports The Times, "nearly seven years after the Government introduced the national literacy strategy." Meanwhile, education secretary Ruth Kelly has unveiled new proposals for reforming education for 14-19 year-olds, which will "effectively" raise the school-leaving age from 16 to 18, according to The Mirror. And in other education news, a report in Tuesday`s Telegraph says "Oxford and Cambridge together rejected more than 10,000 applicants last year who went on to achieve straight As at A-level," while only 93% of the students they accepted achieved three As. [... more]

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