Primary school children are being suspended from school increasingly often for assaulting their teachers and classmates, according to official figures...

Ministers have unveiled proposals for a back-to-basics curriculum focusing on times-tables, spelling, reading and arithmetic but a union leader warned...

Ofsted's controversial chief inspector today launched a stinging attack on heads and teachers who make excuses and complain about their jobs, saying t...

More than 350,000 children could lose their free school meals under the government's planned welfare reforms, a charity has warned. An analysis by ...

Thousands of children are missing lessons as teachers in Nottingham stage a walkout over proposed changes to school term dates. Nottingham City Cou...

Schools are segregated along class lines, leaving the poorest children struggling to achieve against poverty and deprivation, a teacher's leader warne...

England's qualifications watchdog has given its support to Michael Gove's proposal that universities play a larger role in A-level exams. In a lett...

Violent and addictive computer games are luring youngsters into a fantasy world of drugs, murder and crime, a union leader warned on Wednesday. It ...

Schools need tough behaviour sanctions to rival corporal punishment as a deterrent for naughty pupils, teachers have warned. Current methods, such ...

Schools could struggle to recruit staff if government plans to introduce regional pay for public-sector workers goes ahead, teachers are expected to w...

It is a "national scandal" that poorer pupils are lagging up to a year behind their richer classmates in their schooling, Stephen Twigg will warn teac...

England's young children are being served "very small" school dinners, and given limited choice despite paying more for their meals, a survey of teach...

Teachers are bowing to pressure to make sure pupils pass exams and are being "forced to manipulate" results, a survey has suggested. One teacher ev...

A third of teachers are forced to deal with physical violence from pupils, including one girl telling her teacher she would "kick the smile off her fa...

As George Osborne prepares to unveil the Budget for 2012, teaching unions have voiced their fears over the future of funding for education. One sai...

The unemployment landscape looks bleak. Teachers are struggling to find jobs, just like any other professionals, despite the government's drive to bui...

One of the largest teaching unions in Wales has become the latest body to refuse the government's pension offer. UCAC, which has more than 4,500 me...

More parents are turning their noses up at toilet training their children - instead leaving it to schools and teachers to handle the mishaps. Risin...

The government faced continued resistance to its controversial public sector pension reforms when members of the biggest teachers' union continued to ...

Nearly a fifth of teachers are victims of "cyberbaiting" by pupils who deliberately taunt their teachers, film their reaction and then post it on the ...

Teachers are being condemned to "pension poverty" after a lifetime of teaching the nation's children, a union leader has warned. Dr Mary Bousted, g...

Thousands of teachers and lecturers are descending on Parliament to protest against planned Government changes to their pensions. Teaching unions h...