England's school inspectors - known collectively by the little-loved acronym of Ofsted (www.ofsted.gov.uk- that's the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills, in case you were wondering....) - have just published a report on the state of mathematics in English schools. Like most education reports, it's a tale...

Three years ago this June, the Badman Review ignited controversy with proposals for the compulsory registration of home educating families in England. Ed Balls was eventually forced to drop these measures from the Children, Schools and Families Bill - but are some local authorities still hoping to implement Badman via...

Ever since the riots blazed across UK streets and TV sets worldwide last year, debate has raged on the catalyst that sparked an estimated 15,000 individuals to become one angry mob. Around 70% of the London 2011 rioters were under the age of 24 so identifying a root cause could...

INTERVIEW Multi-millionaire entrepreneur Peter Jones tells Liz Lightfoot how he wants to boost business with new-style apprenticeships

Students come in at 16, often with mediocre GCSE results and lacklustre school reports. After two years they are beating Oxbridge graduates...

Students all over the world are facing the music with school exams in full swing at the moment - not to mention finals for those already at university. And with students being tested on more information across a wide range of subjects, remembering what you've been taught is vital. Revision...

I was recently forwarded an email which contained a link to Richard Branson's own personal blog. Now I'll admit, naively I didn't even realise Mr Branson had a blog! But it makes sense - he's one of our country's greatest entrepreneurs so he probably has a fair amount to say...

Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson's The Spirit Level became an instant bible and seminal piece of thorough analysis for equality campaigners everywhere when it was first published in 2009. The underlying idea behind its socio-economic analysis is a simple one: that more equal societies tend to have more cohesive communities...

For 25 years, UK university students have had access to a scheme that offers life-changing opportunities. It can boost their employability, increase their knowledge, skills, and personal experience, and save them money - particularly welcome as tuition fees rise up to £9,000 a year. Yet despite all of this, relatively...

This week, Pearson announced some long-term commitments and a wide ranging set of recommendations to help raise standards and build confidence in UK examinations following an extensive consultation.

The debate about standards in the UK examination system turns heads because the importance of education is more vivid now...

With deafness playing a large part in my family life; my mother is a Sign Language Interpreter and both my uncle and aunt are profoundly deaf, deaf culture and sign language have always been of interest to me. Yet it was only when I began working for Deafax, a UK...

Traditionally, apprenticeships were the main route into business. Some of the country's best-known entrepreneurs mastered their skills this way: Michel Roux, restaurateur and Masterchef judge, British fashion designer Karen Millen, and hair-product entrepreneur John Frieda all learned their crafts via apprenticeship schemes.

Apprenticeships are just as relevant and valuable...

In the first of a new series exploring the radical changes the British higher education system is undergoing, I look at how new student visa restrictions are affecting international students.

Last year Theresa May announced that 260,000 fewer student visas will be given out over the...

While there are any number of well-regarded global rankings of universities and colleges, these don't reveal anything about national systems, the environment which different countries provide for education, for the institutions and students themselves.

Given the significance of Higher Education in economic growth and development, it's important for governments to...

The fear of litigation appears to dominate the minds of university bureaucrats. Telephone directories of regulations covering all aspects of educational life are the result. What is rarely understood is that the real and the hypothetical legal challenges to the authority of universities and lecturers are a symptom, a direct...

I love making dens. Give me some string, a sheet and a few bamboo sticks and I can knock up another world in minutes. Somewhere to play, have fun and make up your own rules. But den making isn't something I do just for my own children. Every week I...

My eldest daughter Lily finishes school this week, by which I mean she will have completed her 'formal education' to age 16.

From now on, it's up to her whether she continues with her schooling or leaves. Today, she has her last ever PE lesson after which she intends to...

The football enthusiast would instantly shout out Maradona and Messi. The movie lover would point to Evita. The wine specialist would endorse the Mendoza wine. What would you associate Argentina with?

Argentina may not be as popular a destination for UK students studying Spanish as Spain, but it was where...