Ofsted inspections should be axed in a bid to stop a "toxic" target-driven culture in schools, a study suggests on Tuesday. Instead, parents, teach...

Many schools are failing to give pupils decent sex and relationships lessons, which could leave them open to sexual exploitation or inappropriate beha...

A headteacher found hanged at her primary school was concerned the school would lose its top Ofsted rating months before she died, an inquest has hear...

Many PE lessons are failing to improve pupils' fitness, while not enough youngsters are playing competitive sport to a high level, inspectors warned o...

Ofsted has announced plans to overhaul inspections for more than 1,000 private schools amid concerns that teaching is "seldom inspiring". Under the...

Parents will be able to go online to compare nurseries and childminders in their area from Tuesday. Ofsted's website will contain information on di...

As the last of the Autumn leaves fall and memories of London 2012 start to recede, various highlights will surely remain such as the unexpected tears of Sir Chris Hoy, perhaps. Or maybe the exhilaration of the Mobot moment.

Designed to give the UK's most disadvantaged children an academic boost, the pupil premium is a £1.25bn allowance to be spent on disadvantaged students: those eligible for Free School Meals (FSM) and children of members of the armed services. It is an excellent initiative that has the potential to genuinely improve the academic attainment of tens of thousands of children.

Thousands of the brightest children in England are failing to achieve top grades at GCSE because of a growing trend towards entering pupils early for ...

Schools need to spend pupil premium money on their poor students and not on recruiting more teaching assistants, Ofsted's chief has warned. Sir Mic...

So, they thought trying to decide what to wear for their Year 11 Prom was stressful?

A west London school and its director have accepted libel damages over a newspaper claim that it had been infiltrated by Islamic fanatics. The King...

A headmaster tried to ban a transgender schoolboy from sitting an exam dressed in girls' uniform - until the pupil slammed a copy of the Equality Act ...

Concerns have been raised that unqualified teachers are still being used to inspect schools. There are at least five lead inspectors carrying out i...

The Ofsted chief inspector is against radical reforms that would see less able pupils sit simpler qualifications or take papers later on, it was repor...

Colleges are failing to put jobseekers on courses that will help them find work, inspectors are warning. Instead, these adults are being offered ba...

A head who experimented by "team-teaching" children in classes of more than 50 is super-sizing the rest of his school. Last year John Starling reve...