In a country where 77% of 10-year-olds are illiterate, a reading scheme in Pakistan is reaching thousands of children in slums

Pedalling down a narrow alleyway in Karachi’s crowded Lyari Town, Saira Bano slows as she passes a group of children sitting on the ground, listening to a man reading aloud from a book. The eight-year-old gets off her bike, slips off her sandals, and sits on the mat...

Children who grew up close to a centre achieved better GCSE grades than their peers, research suggests.

Social media posts of the two-year-old exploring the natural world are watched by millions.

Gordon Brown and three former education ministers say New Labour’s acclaimed early-years programme benefited millions

Veterans of the last Labour government have called on Keir Starmer to put a new Sure Start-style programme at the heart of his election manifesto after research showed its transformational impact on poor children.

Gordon Brown, the former prime minister who first announced the...

He is alleged to have thrown the teacher to the floor before seizing her by the throat at a Dundee school.

Christine Gilbert will examine response to headteacher Ruth Perry’s suicide after her school was downgraded

A former head of Ofsted is to lead a learning review into the inspectorate’s response to the suicide of headteacher Ruth Perry, prompting concerns from the family about how independent it will be.

Dame Christine Gilbert, who served as Ofsted’s chief inspector from 2006 to 2011, will...

Ruth Perry took her own life after an inspection at her school in Reading in November 2022.

Leader Ed Davey wants a new national champion to tackle the most complex special educational needs.

Protecting children from pornography is one aim of the online harms bill. But other problems have not been tackled

Among teachers and headteachers, concerns about the influence of misogynistic online content, including violent pornography, are widespread. So last week’s call by Daniel Kebede, the head of the National Education Union, for an inquiry into misogyny in schools is important –...

University students in Bristol say volunteering to look after dogs has boosted their mental health.

A tech sector dedicated to boiling things down has raised temperatures in some quarters of the publishing world

Hungry for niche knowledge to impress your colleagues? Troubled by the size of a hefty new book? Doubt your abilities to understand complex arguments? Well, today an increasingly competitive industry offers to take away these problems with one product: a book summary app.

Since these...

Women with symptoms are being penalised, National Education Union’s (NEU) annual conference told

The UK’s biggest teaching union is to lobby for menopause training to be made mandatory for all school leaders, saying women with symptoms are being penalised for sickness absence and disciplined on competency grounds.

Older staff were at greatest risk of “capability procedures”, delegates at...

National Education Union chief Daniel Kebede says Labour pledges are ‘a long way from the scale of change’ needed

A new Labour government could find itself facing a wave of industrial action by teachers in England and Wales if it fails to meet demands over pay and education funding, the leader of the UK’s biggest education union has warned.

Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of the National...

Universities and employers are working together to help low-income families start a career by 2030.

Union poll on school buildings also highlights sewage and wastewater leaks, overheating, severe cold, pests and mould

A survey by the UK’s biggest education union on the state of school buildings in England and Wales has found two in five teachers reporting signs of vermin or pests and more than a quarter complaining of sewage or wastewater leaks.

Of the 8,000 members of the National Education...

Boys and young men need guidance – not punishment – to avoid ‘manosphere’, teacher tells NEU

Teachers should promote positive masculinity in schools in England and Wales in order to support boys who might otherwise feel demonised and end up turning to “the manosphere” for hope, a union conference has been told.

Charlotte Keogh, a secondary school English teacher from Worcestershire, said boys...

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...