Parents need to use “common sense” when picking where to live, claims one councillor.

Bishop Auckland MP Sam Rushworth wants to eventually see free meals for all pupils.

Devices may have potential to help patients with conditions such as depression, addiction, OCD and epilepsy

A groundbreaking NHS trial will attempt to boost patients’ mood using a brain-computer-interface that directly alters brain activity using ultrasound.

The device, which is designed to be implanted beneath the skull but outside the brain, maps activity and delivers targeted pulses of...

In research paper for King’s College London, former Tory minister David Willetts hits back at critics who say degree is no longer a wise investment

A university degree is still the best route for the UK’s young people to boost their life chances, despite attacks by “edu-sceptics” over debts and costs, according to a former Conservative minister.

David Willetts, who introduced the system of fees...

The school will be closed on 20 and 21 January while the data breach is investigated.

Teacher from West Midlands has won substantial damages after fake clip was viewed millions of times and shared widely on social media

A teacher subjected to a torrent of abuse after doctored footage falsely alleged she used a racist slur while canvassing for the Labour party has said she was forced into hiding and feared it would ruin her career.

Cheryl Bennett, a PE teacher from Wednesbury in...

Grants to schools to teach a GCSE in Motor Vehicle and Road User Studies were axed in 2023.

Residents of less affluent Altadena worry their neighborhood will not have the same chance to rebuild as wealthy Palisades

When Lydia Abraham-Traylor left the kindergarten class she teaches in downtown Los Angeles last Tuesday, her eyes were on the Palisades fire, which had started that morning.

Abraham-Traylor, who lived with her eight-year-old daughter in Altadena, figured that fire was all...

Katharine Birbalsingh says school-branded trousers and skirts can help prevent pupils from sexual exploitation

Katharine Birbalsingh has been showered with praise and her advice sought by policymakers around the world after the academic successes of the state school she founded in a deprived area.

Now, the headteacher of Michaela community school in north-west London is locking horns with the...

Criticisms of the inspection system follow the death of Reading headteacher Ruth Perry.

Education minister reveals revamp of national curriculum guidelines and says children must ‘learn to write better’

Bible reading, Latin and learning poetry by heart could return to Italian primary and middle schools as part of a revamp of national curriculum guidelines criticised as “retrograde” and “nostalgic”.

The education minister, Giuseppe Valditara, unveiled the guidelines, which...

Pupils celebrate being reunited at school as a building opens with nine new classrooms.

Pupils give their school dog – Poppy the cockapoo – a glowing report, saying “she keeps everyone happy”.

Joanna Clark resigned from Blackhall Primary School in 2021, a report shows.

A report finds the special educational needs and disabilities system in “disarray” and lacking funds.

Contentious compensation clause likely to be removed after law paused over fears it could protect hate speech

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Ministers are to revive legislation that aims to protect free speech on university campuses in England but a contentious clause allowing legal claims over compensation is likely to be removed.

Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, paused...

As the feted musicians arrive in London for two concerts, we look at El Sistema, the education system that spawned the world-conquering orchestra, and why some are calling for its boycott

December 2009, in a hall in the infamous 23 de Enero (“23 January”) barrio high above Caracas, Venezuela. This can be a daunting part of town, especially with its intimate links to the 23 January 1958...