Schools Secretary Ed Balls drops key reforms for England, including compulsory sex education, after the Conservatives refuse to back them.

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The number of stay-at-home fathers has risen 10-fold in the last decade with 600,000 now in the UK, a survey suggests.

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Tough choices on funding levels for schools in England will be at the heart of the election, says Children's Secretary Ed Balls.

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Teenagers are being forced into choosing vocational rather than academic courses as too young an age, warn teachers.

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The NASUWT urges members to "defend state education", saying it is a choice between public services and a free market.

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WASHINGTON, April 2 - Undergraduate and graduate students who want to apply for a NASA internship or fellowship soon will have access to all of NASA's opportunities at one Web site. NASA has awarded cooperative agreements to five organizations to help attract students to NASA opportunities and provide an easily navigable process from start to finish.

The awards will fund a NASA-wide recruitment, application, selection, placement and career development system to engage students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, research, aerospace education, and space exploration.

The objective of the One Stop Shopping Initiative is to provide an agency-wide integrated system. The goal is a central destination for NASA science and engineering mentors to announce their internship and fellowship opportunities. The effort will consolidate announcements and information currently found on multiple NASA Web sites. The initiative also will formalize the transition of student participants in NASA programs into the workforce, including within NASA, the aerospace industry and academia.

The Ohio Aerospace Institute in Cleveland will partner with NASA for business management. NASA selected four additional organizations to implement recruitment, retention and career development strategies that broaden the diversity of institutions and individuals who apply for NASA's internships and fellowships. The organizations chosen to comprise the Broker Facilitator Corps are the Institute for Broadening Participation of Damariscotta, Maine; the United Negro College Fund Special Program of Falls Church, Va.; the Hispanic College Fund Inc. of Washington; and the American Indian Higher Education Consortium of Alexandria, Va. The total value of all awards is approximately $9.7 million during a five-year funding period.

This program continues the agency's efforts to develop highly qualified undergraduate and graduate students who possess skills in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines critical to creating a high technology workforce for NASA and the nation.

Teachers are meeting for their annual conferences this weekend and a threatened battle with the government on Sats tests in England is high on the agenda.

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Changes were made to a damning Ofsted report on the council at the centre of the Baby Peter case, court documents show.

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The health care reform legislation that President Obama signed recently isn't only about insurance coverage -- there's also a renewal of $50 million per year for five years for abstinence-focused education.</img> </img> </img> </img> </img>


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For the first time, more than half of young women are now entering university, newly-released figures reveal.

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