Education News

• Call for school speaking lessons
• Sats test scoring angers heads
• Google funds computer teaching
• Schools saw 87,000 racism cases
• Schools 'on track' for new exams
• Neets 'trapped by lack of skills'
• UK bids for Irish colleges rise
• Business leaders doubt GCSE value
• Fee rises 'deter mature students'
• Ofsted criticises maths teaching
• End 'can read won't read culture'
• Teachers in anti-academy strike
• Social mobility 'snapshots' plan
• UK childcare 'needs an overhaul'
• 'Minority language data is key'

Sport News

• Barton handed 12-match suspension
• Doha and Baku cut from 2020 list
• Blues to release Kalou & Bosingwa
• Parker fit to train with England
• Blackburn in state of 'confusion'
• Liverpool make stadium 'progress'
• McLaren frustrated with mistakes
• Williams in pit procedure change
• Pietersen fined for Knight tweet
• Finn one of world's best - Broad
• Dowson named as England captain
• Murphy announces Irish retirement
• Fans will intimidate Bute - Froch
• Concerns over Duff & Phelps role
• Republic set to be without trio