The Department for Education (DfE) has announced that one third of the £6 million funding pot targeted at building character in school pupils, will be used to support military-style projects.

Pat Glass has been appointed as the new shadow education secretary, following Lucy Powell’s resignation.

The Sottish government has been accused of treating schoolchildren ‘like guinea pigs’ as it pushed forward with plans to bring in national testing in P1, P4, P7 and S3 (Years 1, 4, 7 and 9).

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has backed its members calls for a strike action over pay, working conditions and school funds.

The government is to set to begin collecting data on how many children from immigrant families are being taught in England’s schools.

Ofsted boss Michael Wilshaw has warned that the English education system is still failing disadvantaged pupils.

Pupils in Basingstoke are protesting against their Biology A Level exam after finding that little of exam contained questions on topics they had studied.

The Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH) has published a report calling on the government to ban children from being allowed to order takeaways to their school.

'Digitally savvy’ businesses are being encouraged to work with school teachers to close the skills gap in STEM subjects.

Teaching Leaders and the Future Leaders Trust, two of the top leadership training charities for teachers, are set to merge.

53 per cent of classroom or teaching assistants working in schools across the UK have experienced physical violence over the past year, according to figures published by Unison.

Disadvantaged pupils systematically receive lower quality mathematics instruction compared to their more advantaged peers, a new report from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has warned.

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