Undergraduate adult and mental health nursing students are visiting more than 90 schools in Scotland to raise awareness of healthy lifestyle choices.

Government plans to address teacher shortages by boosting starting salaries must also include a pay boost for experienced staff to improve retention, say four education unions

The Department for Education has announced its ministerial team’s portfolios.

A petition by 18 year-old Jade Kilduff, which is calling for all schools to teach basic sign language, has had nearly 100,000 signatures.

Public Health England is expected to advise that schools do not need to close or send staff and pupils home while tests are carried out on a suspected case of coronavirus.

The DfE has announced it will give Ofsted an extra £400,000 to help investigate unregistered independent schools and support the regulator in bringing together evidence for prosecution.

The money will fund new measures including peer-mentoring programmes for young people in Pupil Referral Units to help tackle the consequences of school exclusions

College staff in Wales will receive a 2.75% pay rise after the Welsh Government provided funding of £6m to ensure college teachers receive the same pay as school teachers

Universities and science minister Chris Skidmore has been sacked from his post in the Prime Minister's Cabinet reshuffle.

The Children’s Society has created a new toolkit for education and social work professionals, designed to help improve the support they give to young carers as they move to adulthood.

Qualifications that are not being taken by anyone or are being studied by less than 100 students each year may lose government funding, under DfE plans.

The regulator will play a key role in enforcing a statutory duty of care to protect internet users, particularly children, from harmful content.

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