Education News

The more young people come into contact with employers the less likely they are to drop out of school and become unemployed, research suggests.

A top girls' school is planning a "failure week" to teach pupils to embrace risk, build resilience and learn from their mistakes.

Charles Dickens biographer Claire Tomalin says children are not being taught to read with the attention span necessary to appreciate the novelist's works.

The incoming fair access watchdog says universities will be fined for failing to recruit more students from poorer backgrounds.

The results of England's academy schools are being inflated by the over-use of vocational equivalents, analysis suggests.

Children are to get legal rights to maintain relationships with both their parents, as part of a shake-up of the family justice system.

Schools should be allowed to delay a new exam system if they are not ready to implement it, Scotland's largest teaching union says.

The head of the Student Loans Company will have tax and National Insurance payments deducted from his £182,000 pay package in future, ministers say.

Further education colleges are going to offer thousands more degree places, previously provided by universities.

Pupils who shout out in class achieve better results than their counterparts who appear to be better behaved and quiet, suggests research.