All news on the topic: Department of Education

More than seven in ten parents in the UK describe early years professionals as real-life superheroes - but only three per cent of staff are male, a bleak statistic the industry wants to address

Most incoming secondary school children in England and Wales should get their first choice of school to start at in September - just 4 per cent get a school they did not choose

A new interactive map shows where parents have been fined the most for their kids missing school, after official figures revealed unauthorised absences had reached a record high

The ministerial 'merry-go-round' triggered by the chaotic collapse of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss's Governments led to bumper payouts in the Department for Education

Youngsters from the south of England are twice as likely to get into Oxbridge as those from the north data from the Department of Education reveals - illuminating a north/south divide at the higher echelons of education

Decklan Hayward went to school in Orange, Australia, only to find his life on the line a few hours later after he choked on a cocktail sausage during snack time

The new higher education loan scheme, dubbed the Lifelong Loan Entitlement (LLE), was first announced in 2022 as part of a whole package of reforms to the student finance system

The Government is being urged to start negotiating with teaching unions to prevent a strike. Figures show 26,443 teachers who qualified in the last five years have already left the job