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Byline: Daniel Boffey The leaders of academy schools are spending taxpayers' money on luxury hotels, top-end restaurants, first-class travel, private health care and executive cars, a joint investigation by Channel [...]

Byline: Jessica Haworth ISIS are planning an 'imminent' attack on Jewish children and are targeting nurseries, schools and youth clubs according to reports. Terrorists have advanced plans to target children [...]

Byline: wirralweeklynews Administrator A family from Cathcart Street Primary entered a nationwide competition with Barclays Plc and won. Cathcart Street was therefore selected to be part of the 2015 Barclays [...]

Byline: David Williamson Merseyside schools are paying twice as much for their water bills as schools in the South East according to Liverpool Labour candidate Maria Eagle. Schools in the [...]

Byline: Ruth Bloomfield AT THE start of next month the skies of north London will light up for the pyrotechnic extravaganza that is the annual Ally Pally fireworks display. It [...]

CLASSICAL musician James Rhodes has criticised the lack of music lessons in state schools. The 39-year-old pianist is making a Channel 4 documentary about the decline of music education in [...]

Byline: Rowena Mason LOCAL councils should look at banning sugary drinks in schools and other 'nannying' policies after figures indicated there are almost 30,000 preventable deaths a year, Jeremy Hunt [...]

Byline: Ndidi Okezie Over the past few years there has been a rise in unexpected TV celebrities, from a talented supermarket worker with a five-octave vocal range, to sequinned salsa [...]

Byline: Cathy Newman Presenter, Channel 4 News Whatever happened to 'Theresa May, then again she may not'? That was the quip semi-affectionately deployed against the Home Secretary's legendary caution, which [...]

Byline: Padraic Flanagan Schools watchdog Ofsted is to overhaul its inspection regime, planning shorter visits for thriving centres of learning to allow more time for it to focus on under-performing [...]

Byline: Graeme Paton ALL schools in England are being given the chance to convert into independent academies under Coalition plans. More than 21,000 primaries, secondaries and special schools will be [...]

GENDER ■ Only 53% of boys reach the expected level of writing by age five, compared with 72% of girls ■ Boys are more than 3.5 times more likely to [...]

Byline: Toby Young The National Audit Office's report on free schoolsis generally favourable, though you wouldn't know it if you relied on this article on the BBC's website. The NAO [...]

Byline: Christopher Hope Senior Political Correspondent Michael Fallon said that selling off shares in Royal Mail was necessary to bring in private investment and stop the company relying on the [...]

Diageo said in May that Mr Walsh would step down as chief executive at the end of this month, after 13 years at the helm of the group that makes [...]

Byline: Peter Dominiczak Political Correspondent In a major policy reversal, Labour has dropped its blanket opposition to free schools and will support their formation as long as there is sufficient [...]

Byline: Melanie Hall All five of the UK's elite specialist music schools have been implicated in the scandal, which involves claims of historic sexual abuse and inappropriate behaviour spanning four [...]

Byline: Dr Brooke Magnanti formerly known as Belle de Jour In a counterpoint to this week's announcements regarding child sexualisation, and the Government's role - whether the government actually has [...]

The education system in Sheffield is expanding on three fronts: the university has developed an outreach scheme in six secondary schools in deprived areas and has plans for a new university college in the Dearne Valley, an area badly affected by the decline of the coal industry; the polytechnic, soon to be renamed Sheffield Hallam University, is embarking on a major building programme; and the city council has recently successfully created a single tertiary college for the whole city and has the confidence of virtually all the city's schools, only one of which has opted out.

Telford education authority in Shropshire, England, is faced with a conflict between the need to abolish 2,600 surplus secondary school places and the obligation under government policy to accommodate parental choice. The authority plans to close or merge four schools, but parents, who oppose the proposed changes, claim that the government, by opening a City Technology College in Telford, has compounded the problem and made it impossible for the local education authority to satisfy their wishes.