SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingimage copyrightPA MediaMore than 23,500 children in Northern Ireland find out which post-primary school they will transfer to on Saturday.For the first time in decades, grammar schools have not used transfer tests to decide which pupils to admit.Both test providers cancelled them...
SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingimage copyrightVSOBoris Johnson at the G7 summit has pledged £430m to improve education in some of the world's poorest countries - with girls' education a priority.The prime minister said it was a source of "international shame" that so many girls in poorer...
SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingimage copyrightGareth FullerKent County Council says it will not be taking on any unaccompanied asylum-seeking children from Monday as it has reached "the limit of safe capacity". The council has threatened legal action against the Home Secretary over the "extreme pressure" on...
SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingimage copyrightGetty ImagesA head teacher has banned skirts from his school citing "frequent" complaints that they are "far too revealing".In an email to parents at St Martin's School in Caerphilly, Lee Jarvis said from September both pupils and staff must wear tailored...
SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingimage copyrightReutersAround 150 Oxford University academics are refusing to teach at one of its colleges after it decided to keep the controversial statue of Cecil Rhodes.For years campaigners have been calling for the statue at Oriel College to go, saying Rhodes stood...
SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingimage copyrightOfstedSexual harassment has become "normalised" among school-age children, a report by the watchdog Ofsted warns.Students often do not see the point of reporting abuse and many teachers underestimate the scale of these problems, the schools watchdog says.Boys are sharing "nudes", while...
SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingimage copyrightPeter DazeleyPeople are increasingly likely to use strong swearing in their everyday life, says research from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). The body, which gives age ratings to films, says about a third of people in the UK are...
SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingimage copyrightReutersStudents at one of Oxford University's colleges have voted to remove a portrait of the Queen from their common room.It is understood members of Magdalen College Middle Common Room deemed the image a symbol of colonialism.Education Secretary Gavin Williamson branded the...
SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingScotland's new education secretary has made a "cast-iron guarantee" that no young person will be further disadvantaged by this year's assessments. Shirley-Anne Somerville promised pupils "If your teacher thinks you deserve an A, you will get an A".She said she still had...
SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingimage copyrightMitchell1981/WikiMediaTwo schools have closed after hackers broke into their servers, stole data and encrypted pupil information.Officials at the Skinners' Kent Academy and Skinners' Kent Primary School said they "cannot be sure" exactly what information hackers have access to.But they urged parents...