All news on the topic: Department of Education

Decision affects secondaries and primaries approved by previous government using its ‘free school’ application process

Most incoming secondary school children in England and Wales should get their first choice of school to start at in September - just 4 per cent get a school they did not choose

A new interactive map shows where parents have been fined the most for their kids missing school, after official figures revealed unauthorised absences had reached a record high

The ministerial 'merry-go-round' triggered by the chaotic collapse of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss's Governments led to bumper payouts in the Department for Education

Jad Abuhamda, 15, was told not to return to Pine Crest School in Florida after his mum, Dr Maha Almasri, was fired from her role as a tutor at the academy for slamming Israel's invasion of Gaza

Youngsters from the south of England are twice as likely to get into Oxbridge as those from the north data from the Department of Education reveals - illuminating a north/south divide at the higher echelons of education

Love Island-turned-Strictly Come Dancing star Zara McDermott was involved in one of the most dramatic love twists of the 2018 series before it all ended in heartbreak

A report by the Department for Education shows how hundreds of millions of pounds allocated for renovations went unspent, despite dodgy concrete potentially crumbling in school roofs

Decklan Hayward went to school in Orange, Australia, only to find his life on the line a few hours later after he choked on a cocktail sausage during snack time

The mother, who wants to stay anonymous, claims the childcare centre told her it was an accident that happened while her newborn baby was briefly unsupervised during a nappy change

Wendy Exton, from Stoke-on-Trent, says she has witnessed a massive rise in student violence and sexual attacks in recent years, and believes Covid lockdowns are to blame

Figures by the Department of Education show more than 140,000 schoolkids were “severely absent” in the summer of 2022, leading to fears children are falling through cracks

A report carried out by the government shows that 1 in 4 teachers are considering leaving the profession, with poor pay, long hours and huge pressure all cited as reasons why.

The new higher education loan scheme, dubbed the Lifelong Loan Entitlement (LLE), was first announced in 2022 as part of a whole package of reforms to the student finance system

Teachers are set to strike in February as the National Education Union chiefs is set to announce results of a ballot for industrial action on Monday - despite NASUWT failing to meet the threshold for action

The Government is being urged to start negotiating with teaching unions to prevent a strike. Figures show 26,443 teachers who qualified in the last five years have already left the job