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Children in schools across the UK are receiving a Micro:bit - a programmable microcomputer - from the BBC, in an

Fewer than half of the new GCSE and A-level specifications - which English schools will begin teaching in September -

A new scheme which helps former servicemen and women to qualify as teachers has seen just 28 people qualify so

Approximately 350 foreign students have been told to leave the UK by the end of March, after their private college

The current system for producing school league tables, which judges schools on their raw GCSE results, is in its final

According to annual entry figures from Ucas, women are 35 per cent more likely to go to university than men

A former head teacher, Peter Tait, has warned that schools are letting young people down by focusing more on academic

A study suggests that children who eat a healthy breakfast are more likely to perform well in their assessments at

A think tank has claimed that the sharp decrease in the number of part-time students at universities in England is

Schools have been urged to take sexist undertones more seriously, and prevent students from becoming pigeonholed by their gender. Interviews

A group of New York prison inmates has defeated Harvard University's debate team, who won the national and world championships

There are 34 British universities in the 2015-2016 Times Higher Education rankings, which lists the top 200 institutions in the

Lucy Powell, the new shadow education secretary has warned about the effect that scrapping universal free meals for five to

The school inspection team claim that young secondary school students are being failed by their schools, who prioritise resources towards

Researchers have reported that university drop-out rates fell after tuition fees were increased, suggesting the increased fees made students focus

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2015 has once more classed Harvard University in the US as the top

Prime minister David Cameron has called for all schools in England to become academies, claiming they improve standards and give

There were a record number of sixth-form students carrying out dissertation-style projects over the last school year, it is thought,

Selective grammar schools make up eight of the ten top performing schools across England and Wales, according to research by

Dropout rates for teenagers at schools and colleges will be used to score local councils each year, on how well

Michael Gove has turned his attention to improving the education within prisons, which can help to provide prisoners with alternatives

Students who come from families on lower incomes are set to lose out on university maintenance grants, after Chancellor George

Jo Johnson, the universities minister, has announced that the current system for marking degrees is outdated and will be obsolete,

The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has expressed his desire for all young people in London to have completed at

Changes will be made to the GCSE grading system in England, beginning with exams which are taken in 2017, requiring