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  'He doesn't know how lucky he is'

  As the school leaving age officially rises to 18, Jessica Shepherd asks what difference it will make and talks to three generations of one family

• Famous school flops

  Gallery (14 pictures): The school leaving age is about to be raised to 18. But does dropping out of school early lead to a life of manual work and penury? It didn't for this lot …

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• Wells Cathedral choristers rehearse for Christmas

  Audio (2min 08sec), Dec 2 2008:

  Boy and girl choristers, aged eight to 15, at Wells Cathedral in Somerset rehearse O come, O come, Emmanuel for the annual Advent carol service

• Truancy: Number of parents jailed trebles

  Nov 27 2008:

  Mothers are three times more likely to be sent to prison than fathers, figures show

• Single-sex science lessons 'would be good for girls'

  Nov 25 2008:

  New schools minister says girls feel intimidated by boys who hog the limelight

• Shock tactics

  Nov 25 2008:

  Anti-abortion campaigners are being allowed into schools to present their arguments to teenagers, and are making converts. But what about the facts? Kate Hilpern reports

• Literacy failures: it's all my fault

  Nov 25 2008:

  Phil Beadle: My year 11s can't tell a comma from a colon. Of course, it's all their last teacher's fault. I blame him

• Words cannot express

  Nov 25 2008:

  How can students who've visited Auschwitz convey what they have seen and felt to friends back home, writes Jessica Shepherd

• Authors fight to preserve school library

  Nov 23 2008:

  Philip Pullman tells head her comprehensive will be a 'byword for ignorance' if closure goes ahead

• Councils 'systematically failing' to learn from their mistakes in child care

  Nov 19 2008:

  First report from Ofsted since taking over children's protection services says they are 'patently inadequate'

• Poor let down by education system, says Ofsted

  Nov 19 2008:

  Bad quality services in deprived areas make things worse, says chief inspector

• Tories promise to link exams to world benchmark

  Nov 18 2008:

  The shadow schools minister, Michael Gove, pledges to reverse 'devaluation' of English exam grades

• Few sign up for flagship diplomas

  Nov 14 2008:

  Tories say just 12,000 have registered in schools and colleges, well below the government target

• Academies' selection: 'The proportion of poor students went from 45% to 29%'

  Audio (3min 41sec), Nov 14 2008:

  Polly Curtis reports that academies are taking fewer poor students

• 'Coasting' schools must be ambitious, says government

  Nov 13 2008:

  Government urges teachers not to rest on their laurels

• A pointless pattern of naming, shaming and blaming

  Nov 13 2008:

  The controversial National Challenge scheme is beginning to reap rewards. How easily the adverse publicity could have been avoided

• Balls to tackle 'coasting' schools

  Nov 13 2008:

  Those classed as satisfactory could do more to stretch pupils and improve results

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