A number of primary and secondary schools in Kent, Surry, Cambridgeshire and Scotland have been evacuated after receiving a series of anonymous bomb threats.

The world’s largest education prize has been launched offering a total of HK$60 million, around £5 million, to fund education research and development initiatives.

Michael Wilshaw, chief inspector of Ofsted, has warned that the focus on the ‘three Rs’ in primary schools has pushed other compulsory subjects such as the sciences and languages ‘to the margins of the curriculum’.

Kent Primary Chiddingstone school has extended its school day and shortened term times in a bid to help parents plan cheaper, off-peak holidays.

Ofsted has admitted that one of its inspectors was wrong to decide not to speak to pupils at a private Muslim girls’ school on the basis that the children were celebrating the religious festival of Eid.