David Cameron is facing furious backlash from teachers after he criticised staff for refusing to play their part in running school sports. The Prim...

Name-calling is rife in many schools, but is often dismissed as simply "banter", according to a new Ofsted report into bullying. It found that pupi...

Plans to enable free schools to make a profit have been put back on the table after Michael Gove admitted they "could" become a possibility in the fut...

Striking teachers and parents took part in a protest on Tuesday outside a school which is resisting academy status. Downhills Primary School in Har...

Around 700 school leaders are earning six-figure salaries, official figures show. Data published by the Department for Education reveals that 200 h...

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

Love was on the curriculum as a pair caught taking a more hands-on approach during a teaching union conference were chided after their teenage behavio...

Teachers have warned they will resist any attempt to shorten the six-week school summer holiday. A move to cut the traditional summer break would h...

Children will be branded failures at the age of five by the Government's new reading test, teachers have warned. The National Union of Teachers (NU...

Two of the UK's biggest teaching unions were today on a collision course with the Government after voting for further industrial action, including str...

Many teachers are feeling demoralised and overworked, with concerns that they are facing constant criticism and unrealistic expectations, a survey sug...

Teachers won millions of pounds in compensation last year after accidents, injuries, assaults and discrimination at school, new figures show. In on...

I have to admit ambivalence about yesterday's NUT strike in London. I went to work, not because I disagree with the concept of fighting for my pension, but for the rather more prosaic reason that I belong to another union, who did not choose to strike this time.

The Government's new reading test for six-year-olds could face a boycott from teachers. The National Union of Teachers (NUT) is expected to warn at...

Teachers raised the prospect on Thursday of taking strike action over attempts to shorten holidays and lengthen the school day. The National Union ...

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...

Teachers are set to down tools and take to the streets of London on 28 March in protest against the government's pension offer. The announcement ca...

Universities not paying the living wage to their employees will be named and shamed by unions in a bid to encourage all institutions to solve an "inhe...