Employers should discriminate against Eton-educated job-seekers, former Education Secretary Justine Greening has suggested.

Senior Labour MPs have hit out at the revelation that nobody from a Black Caribbean background was accepted on to the civil service graduate scheme in one year despite record numbers applying.

Former Primary School headteacher, Lib Dem House of Lords Education spokesperson Lord Storey writes ahead of his question on 'Gender pay gaps in academy schools and trusts'.

Boris Johnson has committed Britain to spending more than £200m on educating "the world's most marginalised girls", while urging global leaders to follow suit.

Not enough employers are stepping up to the plate to provide high quality apprenticeships to combat the UK’s skills’ shortages, Unite, the country’s largest union, said today.

Ministers must "bear some responsibility" for poor mental health among young people, the head of the largest teaching union has said.

A total of 160,000 children are to miss out on free school meals under changes to Universal Credit rules, according to a leading thinktank.

British school children are showing increasing signs of poverty and hunger, head teachers have warned.

Some schools could become military academies under new plans to be considered by ministers.

Academy schools are being deprived of frontline resources because so many of their headteachers and executives are being paid fat-cat salaries, MPs have said.

The apparent success of grammar schools compared to state schools can be attributed to the privilege of the students not the superiority of the institutions, a new report has found.

Universities must not let the drive to be a ‘safe space’ stifle free speech on campuses, MPs have said.

Northern children are being left behind because of poor schools and entrenched poverty, according to a new report.

Toby Young has stepped down as the head of a charity supporting free schools, blaming a media storm earlier this year around controversial comments he tweeted.

The Government will today announce a £26m fund for school breakfast clubs across the country.

A leading academic has predicted that the cost of Britain’s top degrees will soar to £120,000 within the next ten years. 

The current higher education funding model will become unsustainable as hundreds of thousands of new university places will be needed by 2030, experts have said.

Degrees will be rated gold, silver or bronze under a Government scheme that will leave universities “no place to hide” on the quality of their courses, it has been announced.

Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner has secured debates on Government plans to cut free school meals and childcare vouchers in a bid to block them.

With the government struggling to make the numbers needed to hit its pledge to create 3 million apprenticeships by 2020, a new guide by the Association for Project Management to support apprenticeship conversations might be the answer. 

During the review of post-18 education and funding, a sustained and strong response from the higher education sector is needed to communicate to government, parliament, and the public that systemic change is here to stay, says Dods Political Consultant Thomas Scarff.

Labour have called for the head of minister Jo Johnson after a report questioning his role in the appointment of Toby Young to a government role.

Universities should compensate students hit by industrial action by lecturers, the minister in charge of higher education has said. 

Lib Dem leader Vince Cable has called on the government to support lecturers’ pensions and bring and end to their ongoing strike.