Education News

Head teachers say a ban on the legal drug mephedrone should be considered following the death of two teenagers.

The "preposterous" limit on tuition fees should be scrapped, says Oxford University chancellor Lord Patten.

Nursery food is poor and could be subjected to new nutritional guidelines, a government-commissioned report says.

Parents should not be made to feel guilty for paying for education, say private school leaders.

The number of children calling the national helpline Childline because they are feeling lonely has risen, a study has found.

More than half a million UK pensioners living overseas will continue to have their pensions frozen after a court decision.

Fees for bringing care and supervision cases to court are to be abolished, the Justice Secretary announces.

The number of university students who know someone who has worked in the sex industry has risen from 3% to 25% in 10 years, research claims.

Fitness tests should be introduced for children in secondary schools to help make people more active, the chief medical officer for England says.

Children's strange misconceptions about science are revealed in a science knowledge quiz.