The A-Level pass rate has risen for the 28th successive year. Debasing the coinage. It's what governments do....

‘Making sure children are safe, well and receive a good education is our most serious responsibility… However, there are concerns that some children are not receiving the education they need. And in some extreme cases, home education could be used as a cover for abuse. We cannot allow this to happen and are committed to doing all we can to ensure children are safe, wherever they are e...

Throughout its years in government - from Tony Blair's famous "Education, education, education" speech to the more recent "Every Child Matters" programme - Labour has claimed to champion the needs of the younger generation. For the 2,000 children who are sent to UK immigration detention centres every year, however, these claims ring hollow. These children are torn from their homes, their comm...

If English primary school education is "deficient" due to too much focus on maths, English and testing, why are so many children struggling to master basic English!?!

Parents will have more rights over their children's education - and the best heads will run chains of schools, in new education plans.

Home Educating families face ongoing and increasing challenges in protecting the right to educate our children without interference from the state. There have been three Government reviews into Home Education in the last four years. The most recent is extremely concerning as it alleges links between Home Education to abuse without producing any evidence. Details

Children, Schools and Families - This annual Volume provides statistics on UK education and training including schools, post-compulsory education and training, and qualifications and destinations, also education expenditure and population numbers.

Once again the issue of education caused a heated debate on the floor of the NI Assembly as the Minister of Education, Caitriona Ruane continued in failing to provide any certainty on how P6 children will transfer to post-primary school next year.

Graham Badman's Report to the Secretary of State on the Review of Elective Home Education in England has now been published. You may not be particularly interested in home education. You may think that because you don't home educate your children, this doesn't affect you. But, as Renegade Parent writes, "This is not a home education issue, it is a fundamental civil liberties issue. Dressing it up ...

We have a Minister who has no idea about education. I have run out of words to describe the shameful situation she has left us in which now confronts P6 children, their parents and teachers. The Minister of Education has abandoned children, parents and teachers to the chaos of an unregulated transfer system. We have all known that this issue was confronting us from the moment devolution was restor...