The Local Government Association (LGA) has urged the government to scrap the controversial term-time holiday fine policy after a surge in fines and the prosecution of parents.

The New Schools Network (NSN) has raised doubts over the accuracy of Ofsted’s judgements, after analysis found that a third of primaries given top ratings actually failed to meet the national average for Key Stage 2 attainment.

Pupils are being cyber-bullied and targeted by extremist groups while working online in school classroom, according to a new survey of more than 2,000 UK parents.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has claimed that blocking the expansion of a successful grammar school is ‘perverse’.

The Department for Education (DfE) has decided to abolish A-level general studies, as a result of concerns that it does not meet the ‘high’ standards being introduced under its exam reform programme.

According to provisional figures results, local authority schools have achieved higher average GCSE results than free schools.

A report by The Driver Youth Trust has claimed that a series of changes made since 2010 has left pupils in England with special educational needs and diabetic (SEND) in a ‘fragmented’ system.

Exam regulator Ofqual have explained that there will be ‘significant improvements’ to the process of appealing against GCSE and A-level results, with proposals for a better system announced later this month.

The Department for Education (DfE) is publishing provisional league tables for secondary schools in England, based on early data from this summer's GCSE results.

A school in Sevenoaks, Kent, is set to be the country’s first grammar school in fifty years.

In a bid to help tackle youth unemployment, the government is being urged to bring back compulsory work experience for school children under the age of 16.

New figures show that more children than ever before are starting school with the expected standards in numeracy and literacy, but there is still a significant gender gap between boys and girls.

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