Education secretary Justine Greening has announced that an extra £1.3 billion of funding will be poured into schools over the next two years.

Former shadow education secretary Lucy Powell has been elected to serve on the education select committee along with two ex-teachers.

According to figures released by Public Health England (PHE), less than a fifth of primary children get the recommended amount of exercise by the time they leave school.

The amount of four and five-year-olds excluded from primary schools is on the rise, according to an expert who runs schools for excluded children.

A new scheme to improve how maths is taught in Schools in Wales is set to be launched.

The government is planning to spend around £10 million on recruiting and training hundreds of foreign physics, maths and language teachers.

IT equipment

The Department for Education (DfE) and Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is to launch the second in a series of bulk buying deals for IT at the beginning of the autumn term

Stressed school kid

Incidents of self-harm among children and young people have risen in almost half (45 per cent) of schools in England, which equates to more than 10,000 schools, according to research from The Key.

Schools, further education colleges and universities have been contacted by the government and asked to carry out building checks following the Grenfell fire.

School children

Ofsted has told the Court that if it wins its sex discrimination appeal, it will re-visit all schools that keep boys and girls apart

New contracts between teachers and parents to outline responsibilities of both parties around homework and support has been proposed for schools.

The study also found that the educational gap between poor and rich children is now wider than it was a generation ago

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