It is aimed at making it easier for Cornwall’s 2,500 home-schooled children to take their GCSEs.

Charities say more should be done to support girls who experience prolonged bleeding and severe menstrual pain

Heavy, prolonged periods and severe menstrual pain are linked with lower school attendance and poorer GCSE scores, according to new research.

The England-based study found that more than a third of girls (36%) who participated experienced heavy or prolonged menstrual bleeding, which...

A school appoints a vice principal who specialises in pupil behaviour after teachers walk out.

New Labour initiative created ‘remarkably long-lasting’ health and education improvements, says report

Sure Start children’s centres provided £2 of savings for every £1 in costs, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), prompting calls for the government to look at such services as potentially paying for themselves.

The centres, championed by the last Labour government, created...

This slash-and-burn approach is indefensible and would have been anathema to previous Labour governments

Ask any one of the 187 female Labour MPs whether they would have made it to the House of Commons without an education and you would probably get short shrift. Most would wax lyrical about their school days and the teachers who taught and inspired them.

Yet the government of which those women...

The government wants universities to check the safety of halls and reach out to families after a death.

Uinversity students’ mental health and wellbeing must be ‘prioritised alongside their studies’, argue campaigners

A review of student suicides in England dodged “the real issues” with universities, the parents of a student who killed herself before a class presentation have said.

The national review of higher education student suicide deaths, commissioned by the Department for Education, heard...

Those convicted of child sexual offences may not be banned from contact with their own offspring.

All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions

It’s Saturday afternoon and my friend’s five-year-old daughter is lying next to me on her living room floor. She explains to me that she does this at school. She lies on her back with the rest of the class and they do something called the body scanner, where they all pay...

The new T-level students on the Aston University course aim to bring new blood to the industry.

Back in 1990, my sister and I pretended we were looking at universities when we were, in fact, roaming around shopping malls. This astounded my teens

When you book your kid on a university open day, places tend to have a pretty strict specification: no more than one guest. Me and the middle teen kicked this around a bit, planning her trip to Bristol. Her friends could book their own place; it...

A report calls for a specialist education programme for those aged 16-24 who come to NI as asylum seekers and refugees.

A many shakeup plan also sees sweet treats and fried food being cut down in primary schools.