LONDON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Starting next year, all British school children will learn to read using the traditional technique known as synthetic phonics.

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LONDON, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Britain's education secretary is calling for a review of school examinations after a two-year study found evidence of widespread cheating.

LONDON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- A poem on Adolf Hitler written by a 14-year-old schoolboy in Britain has stirred up a controversy that may require government intervention.

LONDON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Education reforms in Britain feature new measures but not an initiative to give parents more choice over their child's school. The exclusion of the choice plan has irked Prime Minister Tony Blair, who said it would have enabled poor performing schools to

LONDON, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- British parents could face fines in the future if their children are caught unescorted in public during school hours, government officials said.

LONDON, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Children in Britain's poor neighborhoods may be bused to wealthier suburbs under a government plan to give their parents more school choices.

CARDIFF, Wales, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- A Cardiff University researcher says Wales has not caught up with the rest of the United Kingdom in providing quality school meals.

LONDON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A British government report has called for doubling spending to $850 million on school meals to make them nutritious and junk-free.