New higher quality bricklayer and plasterer apprenticeships have received final sign-off by the Government, after a rigorous development process.

Matt Hancock has said more schools should consider banning students from using mobile phones during the day.

A Tory minister has resigned live on stage over Theresa May's approach to Brexit.

Britain's universities are not turning out the kind of graduates that are needed for the modern workplace, peers have warned.

Commenting on the speech to be made today by the Secretary of State for Education to the National Governance Association Conference on the regulation of academies and multi academy trusts, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT-The Teachers’ Union, said: 

Conservative minister Sam Gyimah has torn into Oxford and Cambridge universities over a "staggering" lack of diversity in their top colleges.

Today’s report from a coalition of teaching unions and expert organisations demonstrates the overwhelming support for making personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education a statutory curriculum subject, including but not limited to crucial learning about relationships and sex.

Commenting on the announcement by the Department for Education that it is to launch a national website to advertise teacher vacancies, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT-The Teachers’ Union, said: 

Responding to the ‘Free For All? Analysing free schools in England, 2018’, report from NFER and the Sutton Trust, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT – The Teachers Union said:

A flagship Tory schools policy is failing in its original aim of offering extensive parental choice, a damning new report has said.

The Government must be realistic about the capabilities and work-readiness of students who have completed construction T Levels, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).

Ministers are to hand councils £50m to create hundreds of new school places for children with special needs - but Labour has already dismissed the cash boost as "old funding".

Theresa May has vowed to deliver "the most significant" shake-up of technical education in decades, as the Government set out fresh detail of its plans for new 'T level' courses.

Senior Tory councillors have hit out at the Government for being put in the “unsustainable” position of having to funnel spending marked for state schools into supporting special needs children.

Grammar schools are to be handed £50m as part of a controversial expansion programme.

The PSHE Association welcomes the Education and Health and Social Care committees’ joint recommendation that PSHE education is made compulsory in schools to support children’s mental health. 

Ministers' plans to improve support for children battling mental health problems will still leave thousands without the help they need, a powerful cross-party alliance of MPs has warned.

The Government is to begin drawing up a new code which aims to tackle "chilling" attempts to stop people from expressing their views on university grounds.

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.