Secondary schools remain the weak point of England's education system, despite more than 10 years of reform by Labour ministers, according to the schools watchdog

As the issue of faith schools has often been debated on this site, and it’s been back in the news with the question of sex and relationship education, we’ve asked David Laws to explain the party’s approach to these issues: The recent Government climbdown over sex and relationship education in state funded faith schools has prompted

New independent schools would be set up outside local authority control, under "radical" Tory plans to increase competition and raise standards in Scottish education.

Cornwall Labour Party has welcomed Labour's £69 million investment in Cornwall's schools, announced today by the Department for Children, Schools and Families. Jude Robinson said: "We are proud of Labour's investment in our children, our schools and our county. The best education is absolutely vital to providing a better future and more opportunities. "From Penzance to Pool, C...

Angela Smith, MP for Sheffield Hillsborough, joined campaigners to demand that the government does not spend taxpayers' money on fish that is endangered. Currently, schools, hospitals and care homes, for example, can buy fish such as cod, haddock and wild salmon that experts warn now have seriously low stocks, or have been caught by destructive fishing methods. Campaigners joined with Angela ...

A Tory-backed report urges incentives for schools and tax breaks for researchers to raise the profile of science.

The shadow schools secretary has said he would like to see 'more and more' children who go to independent schools educated in the state sector instead

You'd think that after the revelations globally about child abuse within the Catholic Church that you've heard everything. Not so, new allegations are surfacing in Germany regarding their 'boys only boarding schools'. The first accusers came forward a month ago in Berlin. Since then, the list of schools and victims who say they were scarred and haunted by alleged abuses has gro...

Here’s how the BBC reports Nick Clegg’s speech today to the Association of School and College Leaders conference: Head teachers have been asked to “raise their game” as part of a £2.5bn funding deal proposed by the Liberal Democrats. Party leader Nick Clegg called on schools to reinvent the curriculum, raise results and close the attainment

I've just read an article reporting that Ed Balls is trying to warn of cuts in education and that headteachers need to trim their budgets, especially primary school heads. If your not involved in schools this might sound fine to you, but I can tell you the government has until very recently been giving schools a hard time about not spending enough money ! And why won't the schools spend ...