Teachers fear sexism is on the rise in schools because of harmful content on children’s phones.

The head teacher, whose suicide was linked to an Ofsted visit, recorded a video message in lockdown.

Prof Julia Waters gives emotional speech at NEU conference and shares video of her late sister addressing pupils

The sister of Ruth Perry, the headteacher who killed herself after an Ofsted inspection, has appealed to any teachers or school leaders considering suicide to think again, describing it as “a terrible, wrong-headed option”.

In an emotional address to delegates attending the annual...

Bòrd na Gàidhlig’s language protection scheme holds onto 27 workers thanks to financial lifeline

Scottish ministers have given emergency funding to save a network of Gaelic community workers who faced being laid off because of government cuts.

Gaelic activists, MSPs and community leaders were dismayed after it emerged last month that Bòrd na Gàidhlig (BnG), the body charged with protecting...

People want good lives for themselves, but the UK has taken so much from the Caribbean. Better to help the islands thrive

Gus John is an academic and an equality and human rights campaigner

Does it matter if we in England are recruiting teachers so heavily in Jamaica that classrooms there don’t have enough of them? Ask those who run school systems in the Caribbean that desperately need their...

The Head of English at a Lincolnshire secondary school discusses the crisis in education and her mission to make literature live for a new generation

Carol Atherton is shattered. Her classroom may have emptied for the day, but the final push before A-levels and GCSE exams has sent her into “marking overdrive”. Head of English at a secondary school in Lincolnshire, she has been teaching for...

Odran Doran and Simon Black are banned from teaching as allegations against them are proven.

Daniel Kebede accuses government of failing to tackle issue of sexism and its spread online among children

The leader of the UK’s largest education union has called for an independent inquiry into the rise of sexism and misogyny among boys and young men, saying it should not be left to parents and schools to police.

Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU),...

NEU members at conference vote in favour of motion criticised by Gillian Keegan as inappropriate

Teachers at the National Education Union conference have voted in favour of a motion calling for solidarity with Palestine and criticising the Israeli government as racist, and declared they would “take no lectures” from the education secretary.

Gillian Keegan said the motion was “wholly...

Gillian Keegan will also squeeze funding for programmes to widen access to higher education

Ministers will cut funding for performing and creative arts courses at English universities next year, which sector leaders say will further damage the country’s cultural industries.

The cuts, outlined by the education secretary, Gillian Keegan, in guidance to the universities regulator, will also reduce...

Prof Des Freedman, Michael Bassey, John Sommer and Sally Bates respond to an article about the dire state of Britain’s higher education institutions

Gaby Hinsliff (Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding, 29 March) says “the story [of decline] starts with the freezing of tuition fees in 2017”.

However, this was the outcome, not the cause, of a crisis...

Parents will soon be finding out which primary school their children will be going to.

The National Education Union has been considering whether to go on strike again in 2024.