In a submission to the Education Select Committee, head teachers have claimed that many schools are forced to call 999, because mental health services within education institutions are inadequate.
Public health experts are counselling for ‘fat letters’, the process whereby teachers inform parents that their child is overweight, to be scrapped or reformed.
Schools Week is reporting that the number of referrals made by the education sector to the government’s anti-radicalisation scheme, Channel, has dramatically increased from 20 in 2012/13 to 424 last year.
Three parents are to launch a judicial review against the Government's decision to exclude non-religious world views from the religious studies (RS) syllabus.
New research published by the Oxford Review of Education suggests students who attended state schools are a third more likely to get a top degree at a leading university than their independently educated counterparts with similar A-level results.
The government has launched a new scheme that will recruit 1,500 ‘elite’ teachers and send them into under performing and failing schools to improve standards.
