It is perhaps no surprise to find Education Secretary Michael Gove and hundreds of teachers at loggerheads over his proposed national curriculum reforms.

Travelling circuses could be hit with an exodus of performers as a result of proposed new education reforms, entertainers have warned.

History, it seems, is a subject where everyone has a view as to how it should be taught in schools – and they all differ.

The former Tory Education minister Tim Loughton has turned his fire on his old boss Michael Gove by tabling a series of hostile parliamentary questions designed to unseat the Education Secretary’s key adviser.

Why not give students the choice of which activity they partake in?

Ministers are to be given the power to ‘fast track’ nominations for knighthoods and other awards as part of plans to radically shake-up of Britain’s ancient honours system.

Kids don't think reading is cool and only three in ten read on their own initiative. But who wants to be "cool" anyway?

Liam Houghton studied BA Architecture at the University of Westminster and was awarded First Class Honours. He writes that his experience was challenging but extremely useful

The Swedish secret service has come under fire for lavishing more than £400,000 on a James Bond-themed staff party.

Most of us know Count Leo Tolstoy as the author of War and Peace, a big book that we haven't read. What is less well known about this remarkable individual is that he was a social reformer whose pacifist and anarchist ideas were to have huge influence in the 20th century and to this day. I say all this because Tolstoy has been popping up in my conversations recently: a Viennese journalist, flatteringly if absurdly, compared me to him the other day, and I have just started to read Anna Karenina.

More than 1,000 young artists from around the world are being celebrated in a major festival next month. Here, Holly Williams offers a sneak preview of some of the best home-grown talent.

The son of Authorized sweeps to victory in Melrose Stakes and lines up a challenge to Camelot