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Thousands of Queensland teachers have downed pens and walked off the job without pay for the first time in 16 years.

In Brisbane, members of the Queensland...

Keir Starmer says package will help tackle trend of young people becoming ‘disconnected from their communities’

Youth clubs and after-school activities in England will receive a funding injection of £88m as ministers try to get more children away from smartphones and computer screens.

The package, which Keir Starmer announced on Tuesday, is intended to give pupils access to sport, outdoor...

Certificates are being delivered by first-class post, though many students will also receive a text or email.

More than £500m was deposited into schemes used to pay fees upfront before VAT announcement

Money saved using schemes to avoid paying VAT on private school fees could be clawed back by the government, tax experts have said, after it was revealed that the schemes had raised more than £500m.

Analysis by the Daily Telegraph found that the UK’s wealthiest private schools took in £500m last year...

Attainment gap between pupils from wealthy and deprived areas closes only slightly despite being SNP’s core mission

Ministers in Scotland are facing intense criticism over a sluggish increase in exam passes by teenagers from deprived areas after repeated promises to greatly improve performance.

Opposition parties and Scotland’s largest teaching union said progress in closing the attainment...

The fines are given when a child registers 10 unauthorised half-day school absences, a council says.

Alan Garber told faculty a settlement with White House is not imminent, according to Harvard’s student newspaper

Harvard University president Alan Garber has told faculty a deal between the Ivy League institution and the Trump administration is not imminent – and denied reports that the university is considering a $500m settlement with the White House, Harvard’s student newspaper the...

Exclusive: School leaders say plans lack precision and do not account for new Send education requirements

Proposals for overhauled school inspections have been criticised as cosmetic, vague and potentially out of date by school leaders and Department for Education (DfE) officials, just days before approval by Ofsted’s management.

Ofsted, the schools inspectorate, has made changes to its new...

Around 147,000 students across Scotland will receive their exams results on 5 August.

Lecturers are also being harassed, the report finds, as ministers say threats will not be tolerated.

Exclusive: University staff report facing pressure to change teaching and are told that Chinese surveillance is rife

Academics and students of Chinese studies in Britain are being subject to harassment, surveillance and pressure to self-censor as they seek to avoid disruption to funding, a survey of universities by a transparency group has concluded.

The findings by UK-China Transparency...

As exam results days loom, we examine what the big lenders offer those heading to university

This month, hundreds of thousands of students across the UK will receive some life-changing news that will determine where they spend the next few years of their lives.

However, amid all the celebrations, as sixth-formers find out if they got into their first-choice university, and the (hopefully...

Ian Bauckham says data apparently showing soaring extra time in A-levels and GCSEs was misunderstood, not wrong

England’s chief regulator of exams has put up a staunch defence of Ofqual after it was forced to withdraw a decade of statistics detailing the number of students granted extra time and other assistance for A-levels and GCSEs.

In his first interview with a national media organisation...