Thousands of primary schools in England are to be offered the chance to follow an Asian style of teaching maths. The government is providing £41m of funding to help interested schools to adopt this ...

Half of primary schools will adopt the traditional Chinese method of maths teaching in a Government drive to stop British youngsters falling behind their Asian counterparts. They will ditch ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At Three Bridges Primary School in Southall, west London, a class of mostly Somali and Indian pupils is being ...