• Today, the government will encourage teachers to make greater use of physical force to 'maintain good order'; give them power to search pupils beyond the current narrow range of contraband goods; the right to impose immediate detentions and it will give anonymity to teachers facing accusations from pupils and allow them to continue working until criminal charges are brought. Compulsory school uniform will also be re-introduced. Telegraph


• There are growing concerns about the level of surveillance in schools, as 10% of teachers admit CCTV is trained on toilets and 85% report its use in their schools. The researchers commented that 'complex social problems will never be solved with technological fixes' as one 15 year old told researchers that school was 'like a prison'. Telegraph


• The Guardian gives a full list of those projects affected by the announced end to the Building Schools for the Future programme. Guardian


• Michael Gove has announced that English and Maths exams will go ahead as planned in 2011 despite a quarter of schools boycotting Sats tests this year. He committed to a review of the tests, but the National Union of Teachers expressed fears it would be undermined by his ideological commitment to the tests. Telegraph


• Around 60% of pupils at Manor Park Primary School in Birmingham speak a language other than English at home, and it has become the first school in England to communicate with them using a computerised languages software. It verbally translates English into 25 languages and a further 200 languages can be translated on screen so pupils can read the teacher's instructions and query tasks. Telegraph


• The Royal Society has bemoaned the decline in practical experiments within school science lessons, fuelled - they say - by the lack of specialist science teachers. The 'high-stakes' testing system in England seemed to have 'little effect' on pupils' maths and science results but induced teaching to the test. Telegraph


• Construction firms in the private sector are being hit by government plans to slash public spending. Shares in the RM Group, the schools IT company, plunged in value after it warned that seven contracts potentially worth £200 million are at risk as the government axes the Building Schools for the Future programme. Guardian

• An Audit Commmission report finds that in some parts of the country more than one in four teenagers are living on benefits, much higher than the latest government figures of 9.2%. It found that 10% of teenagers - over 85,000 - including those with five good GCSEs are at risk of becoming an underclass, cut off from society and drifting into crime. A quarter of teenagers will be NEET at some point. Guardian


• When times are tough, graduates might be better served by getting creative rather than 'flipping burgers and stacking shelves' as the Guardian advised yesterday. Guardian

• A report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies has said that marriage does not make a relationship more stable, but that spouses are less likely to separate than co-habiting partners because they tend to be older, better educated and wealthier than those who have babies out of wedlock. They say it 'casts doubt' on the government's aim of preventing family breakdown by promoting marriage. Telegraph


• Sharon Shoesmith writes in the Guardian about the 'Baby P effect': the number of children in care has shot up from being one in every 200 to one in 150 and the number of children subject to a child protection plan from one in 400 to one in 200. She suggests money spent on putting a child in care might be better spent supporting vulnerable families and with effective multi-agency working. Guardian


• The Week in Britain: the Social Trends survey. Guardian


• Hundreds of asylum seekers in Ireland protest over their treatment in a country which has one of the EU's worst records for granting asylum status. Guardian

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