The Engineering Education Scheme Wales (EESW), which includes activities to promote STEM subjects and careers, is being made available to children under 11

More than 320,000 people have signed a petition, started by Sami Attout, which urges Boris Johnson to shut down schools and colleges

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak has pledged £1.5 billion to upgrade Further Education colleges.

Three more schools in Edinburgh have joined the School Streets Scheme, meaning streets around the schools will be closed to traffic during school run times

70% of teaching professionals have admitted to feeling drained after work, according to research from recruiters Hays.

The average cost of compulsory school uniform and sportswear items is £101.19 per pupil, the Schoolwear Association has found, following the largest survey of school uniform costs in the UK.

A new University of Essex study has found that free school meals is a useful weapon in the fight against childhood obesity.

It is estimated that if children cannot have free school dinners, three million could be at risk of hunger.

Ofqual has said it is working with exam boards and the DfE and are planning for a range of scenarios, but the advice for now is to prepare for exams as normal.

Emergency legislation is likely to be drawn up to allow schools to ignore rules governing class sizes and pupil-to-staff ratios so they can take pupils from closed schools.

The government is putting in £8.9million to continue funding science education programmes including Science Learning Partnerships and Stimulating Physics Networks

The Welsh Government has extended a programme which uses IT to connect schools in rural areas, making the programme available in schools in Powys and Carmarthenshire.

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