Nearly a quarter of children of secondary school age have received some private or home tuition according to a survey commissioned by education charity the Sutton Trust.
As the new term approaches, Education Secretary Michael Gove is rushing through more free schools and academies. But will independence from local authority control and putting head teachers back in...
The government is being called upon to review the education provision available to young people with learning difficulties and disabilities after inspectors found that too few progress from school to...
Scotland’s flagship policy of free higher education is facing a legal challenge that could have serious implications both for the funding of the policy and for the wider devolution settlement.
The Public Accounts Committee has called on the government to assess how participation in education will be affected by the abolition of the Education Maintenance Allowance.
Primary school pupils should be given career advice and encouraged to plan for university, Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes has recommended.
The government’s decision to scrap the grant paid to 16 to18 year-olds in full time education was made too late in the academic year for students to make informed decisions about their future study,...
Scottish Education Secretary Michael Russell is facing fresh pressure to account for an apparent ‘black hole’ in the funds available to pay for policy of no tuition fees at Scottish universities.
The government has published its delayed plans to open up public services to new providers, with Prime Minister David Cameron saying that the government will 'bring an end to the "top-down, get what...
Five schools in England send more students to Oxford and Cambridge universities than 2,000 others put together, according to research by the Sutton Trust.
A pioneer of the free school movement has accused the government of breaking faith with the Big Society idea by putting bureaucratic obstacles in its path
Thousands of teachers, lecturers, jobcentre workers and other civil servants are taking strike action today over the government’s proposed changes to their pensions.