The school attended by the children of Ed Balls the Schools Secretary and his wife Yvette Cooper the Chief Secretary to the Treasury has been granted two head teachers.

Ed Balls, the Children's Secretary, has committed to banning extremist teachers from Britain's schools in the wake of a row over Hizb-ut-Tahrir, the Islamist group.

SCHOOLS Secretary Ed Balls was accused of "cowardice" after Westminster amended sex education legislation following opposition from religious groups.

The BBC today reported that the NAHT will follow the NUT and vote over a boycott of SATs in primary schools. If this is allowed to go unchallenged it will be disastrous for our children's education, and will reverse most of the improvements we have seen in the last fifteen years. It is obvious that SATs are unpopular with teachers, but guess what? I don't care! Our education system shoul...

A SCHOOL has suspended two teachers after claims that teenage pupils on a cultural trip to the Far East ended up watching a live sex show in Bangkok. Umm, isn’t that what Ed Balls wants?

Ed Balls MP, Labour's Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, has set out new measures Labour is taking to give every child a fair chance in life: - Building on our work to tackle bullying, Ed Balls said that all incidents of bullying should be properly recorded in every school. Schools will also record all incidents of verbal or physical attacks on teachers. - Together with La...

Today’s Guardian reports that Labour’s schools secretary Ed Balls is seriously considering a possible ban on British National Party members working as teachers in schools: A source close to the schools secretary, Ed Balls, said there had been several meetings on the issue with teaching unions which are lobbying for a change in teachers’ contracts to

Schools which fail to tackle bad behaviour risk being punished by the education watchdog Ed Balls the Children's Secretary will announce.

Ed Balls launched a fresh attack on grammar schools yesterday accusing them of condemning many children to "failure".

This is the full text of the speech to the Labour Party conference today by Ed Balls MP, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families: Conference, there are over 79,000 social workers in our country today. Doing a job which can be tough and sometimes dangerous but which saves lives and makes a huge difference to thousands of families. And unlike teachers or nurses, fire fighters and polic...