Boris Johnson has defended Toby Young’s appointment to the board of the new universities regulator, accusing critics of a "ridiculous outcry".

Labour has called on Theresa May to sack Toby Young from his new post with the universities regulator over past comments the party said amounted to “homophobia” and “misogyny”.

Universities who fail to protect freedom of speech could be hit with a fine as a result, Jo Johnson will warn today.

The Government is to launch a new service giving more vulnerable children the chance to attend some of the country’s top independent and state boarding schools.

The PSHE Association has welcomed the launch of a Government ‘call for evidence’ on personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education and relationships and sex education (RSE). 

A Tory ex-minister who oversaw the hike in tuition fees to £9,000 a year has called on the Government overhaul its student loans repayments system.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) launched the Government’s Year of Engineering alongside its Skills & Demand in Industry 2017 Survey at a parliamentary event with speeches from Transport Minister John Hayes and the Government’s Envoy for the Year of Engineering Stephen Metcalfe.

New report reveals lack of diversity in engineering and technical workforce could be fuelling recruitment shortage

Chief Executive of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Nigel Fine calls on industry, educators and the Government to come together with the IET to boost engineering skills and productivity in the UK.

Universities will be able to offer two-year degrees in a bid to save students some £5,500 on tuition fees, the Government has announced.

Grammar schools are “contrary to the notion of the common good”, the Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday.

All four board members of the Government's own Social Mobility Commission have dramatically quit in a serious blow to Theresa May's fragile government.

Low levels of development in the early years doesn’t just have an adverse impact on progress at school. It also damages children’s future life chances, says Stephen Timms MP.

The UK is in a “self-reinforcing spiral of ever-growing division”, according to a key study of social mobility published today.

The state should pay for school leavers to work on aid projects during gap years, Conservative MP George Freeman has said.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has responded to the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget, which includes investment in digital technologies and a plan to bring driverless cars to our roads.

Teachers in some of the country's failing schools are to be given millions of pounds of taxpayers' money to improve their classroom skills, Philip Hammond will announce in the Budget.

Welcoming the Prime Minister’s announcement that the Government will work with industry to boost spending on R&D to 2.4 per cent of GDP by 2027, Sir Mark Walport, Chief Executive designate of UK Research and Innovation said:

Theresa May has said the Government will spend up to £80bn on research and development over the next decade.

“For an advanced economy, the path to competitiveness is not to copy what others are doing. It is to do things that others cannot do, or to do things in different and better ways.” (Building our Industrial Strategy: Green Paper, 2017)

An anti-EU Conservative whip who wrote to universities demanding to know what they were teaching about Brexit was simply doing personal research for a book, it has been claimed.

A cross-party group of over 100 MPs have called for "urgent action" from Oxford and Cambridge universities to boost disadvantaged student numbers.

Learning transforms lives and increasing access to quality education will bring hope and prosperity to individuals, communities and nations, says Bridge Co-founder Dr Shannon May.