Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from government agencies to investigate curriculum, teacher standards, spelling and the orientation and education of ...

A PRIMARY school in Blackburn is named among the top 3% of schools in England for performance in phonics tests. All pupils from the Olive School, on Meins Road who took part in the Year 1 phonics ...

The letter also demands that the phonics screening test be scrapped. This is a test given to children in year 1 to assess their reading development. 'No evidence' The letter says: "Teachers are better ...

The Education Secretary will set an ambition for 90% of pupils to reach the expected standard in phonics by the end of year 1. Bridget Phillipson will set out the core tenets of the Government’s ...

Lorraine Hammond is the President of Learning Difficulties Australia. Education Minister Simon Birmingham has announced that all Australian six-year-olds will soon be required to do a phonics test.

The attainment gap for reading skills between boys and girls in Telford and Wrekin has increased, new figures show.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s federal Liberal-National government has unveiled a so-called expert panel tasked with imposing yet another standardised test, this time on Year 1 students. On January ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from SA News. Followed categories will be added to My News. Statewide tests recorded 63 per cent of the nearly 14,000 students who took part met or exceeded the ...

Luke Murphy, MP for Basingstoke, has expressed support for the government's plan to introduce a compulsory reading test for 13-year-olds in Year 8.