Secondary schools are to be given extra money to help pupils who are falling behind in English and maths, it was confirmed on Thursday. Under the i...

Top graduates are to be offered £20,000 scholarships to train for a career teaching maths, it has been announced. Around 150 of the scholarships a...

Children who are educated at home face an unreasonable lack of access to examinations such as GCSEs, according to a parliamentary committee. MPs sa...

Teenagers at hundreds of secondary schools are being entered for two English qualifications to boost results. As well as taking GCSE English, these...

The UK's education system is fostering a "cult of the average", failing to help the brightest youngsters, or those most in need, business leaders have...

Teenagers' reading skills are not good enough to understand a GCSE exam paper, a new study claims. It suggests that on average, a student's reading...

There should be as many apprenticeships on offer to school leavers as there are university places, a former Labour schools minister has said. Lord ...

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 ...

Students in Bradford have been left without a school one week before the start of term, after the government pulled funding at the last minute. The...

Ever since Kenneth Baker first introduced a National Curriculum for schools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 1988, governments have periodically had a bash at improving it. It's one of those cyclical things.

More than 20 schools are to lose their playing fields after it emerged the Coalition had approved selling the green spaces despite pledging an Olympic...

All academies will be allowed to hire unqualified teachers in the future, the Government announced on Friday. Ministers said the move will mean sch...

The Government's flagship pupil premium could have a limited impact on the poor children it is designed to help, a charity suggested on Friday. Und...

The number of children in England's primary and nursery schools is set to soar by 18% in the next eight years, official figures show. By 2020, the ...

It might sound obvious, but trainee teachers need lessons on body language in order to control naughty pupils, the government's behaviour tsar has ann...

Every failing primary school is to be turned into an academy, Michael Gove announced on Tuesday. The Education Secretary said it was time to "accel...

One in four teachers do not think there is a good standard of behaviour in their school, according to government research. It reveals that many sti...

A row broke out on Friday over potential changes to education funding amid concerns it could restrict the number of A-levels pupils can take. Minis...

UPDATE: Michael Gove all but confirms plans to scrap GCSEs in favour of O-levels GCSEs are to be scrapped and replaced by their predecessor, the "t...

Allegations "spies" were sent to a school to pose as parents and pick up information for a rival institution have been defended as "nothing unusual". ...

A funding anomaly which has left tens of thousands of poor teenagers missing out on free lunches is to be debated by MPs. Former education secretar...

Michael Gove's controversial bibles have racked up yet more headlines after it was claimed copies were sent to blind students - even though they canno...