Staff at 20 West Midlands schools are currently on the picket lines in a dispute over job cut plans.

City of Wolverhampton Council says work was done on the school’s heating and air handling systems.

IFS says system failing to deliver for those who need it and ministers face stark choices with white paper imminent

The government is facing “crunch time” over the rising costs and failures of special needs education for children in England, according to a report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

The IFS said government spending on educating children with special needs would double between...

Sunjit Kang who was head of ICT at Stockton’s Grangefield Academy, is banned from teaching.

This predicted figure includes the £70m deficit from the 2025-26 budget period.

The government said it expected schools to be “phone-free by default” as a result of the announcement.

Fears over the future of humanities spread amid layoffs and restructurings at scores of public and private universities

Last month, students at Montclair State University in New Jersey held a mock funeral outside the university’s college of humanities and social sciences building. Carrying bouquets of flowers, they stood by a tombstone inscribed with the names of the school’s 15...

Total pay of the qualification body’s top six executives has risen by 240% to £6.2m since charity sold it

The new owners of the vocational training body City & Guilds appear to have more than tripled the pay of its top six executives right at the moment the company is cutting £22m of costs and shrinking its UK workforce.

The large increases to salary and bonuses have emerged during a scandal...

Government replaces recruitment goal with plan to increase ‘education exports’ to £40bn a year by 2030

Ministers are scrapping target numbers for international students in the UK and will instead focus on encouraging universities to open hubs abroad, as part of a plan to bring British education to people “on their own doorsteps”.

The government’s new international education strategy will set...

Though Labour’s voters are more likely to be the educated middle-classes, its focus must be fighting inequality. We know Farage’s party will only enrich the wealthy

Class politics is back, as if it ever went away. Robert Jenrick declares that Tories are toffs and “the divide in British politics has become Reform’s workers party versus the Tory posh party”. He says the Tories are so “out...

Mom insisted I needed a ‘free-form education’ outside public school. After four years of loneliness, I gave up hope that someone would get me out

“Every mother in the world wishes her kid wouldn’t grow up so fast.”

Mom laughs as she holds me close.

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Social media is filling up with influencers telling us how to become much more intellectual. A great, enriching idea – or just another cue to show off?

Name: Disgustingly educated.

Age: About 18 months.

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Strathclyde University said last month that it planned to cut almost 80 jobs to try to save £35m.

Scottish government figures shows that most newly qualified teachers in Scotland are no longer getting permanent jobs, especially in primary schools.

The principal told a Sunday newspaper that as soon as the school became aware of the issue it had referred the matter to the authorities.

Erin Dempsey had trained in Canada but was an unqualified teacher in England, the TRA says.

Women describe experiences dealing with ostracisation and toxic behaviour from other mothers.

Parents say the scheme helps them bond with their babies and establish early literacy skills.

William Young to issue order to protect those who challenge arrest and deportation of pro-Palestinian activists

A federal judge described Donald Trump as an authoritarian and accused his administration of “an unconstitutional conspiracy to pick off certain people” in its aggressive pursuit of non-US citizen, pro-Palestinian activists on American college campuses.

The judge in Boston, who was...

A government report says 800 children were placed in illegal settings for an average of six months last year.

Pair will be absent ‘for short period’ from vocational trainer, whose charity is under investigation by Charity Commission

The two most senior executives at City & Guilds have been put on leave shortly after a scandal over millions of pounds of bonuses triggered a Charity Commission investigation into the vocational training body.

City & Guilds has told staff that its chief executive, Kirstie...