Around 250 of the most dilapidated schools in the country are to be given funding to repair their buildings, ministers announced today.

Education Secretary Michael Gove today rejected demands by Conservative MPs to allow the creation of more grammar schools, insisting they were not a “magic bullet” to solve the problems of the education system.

Teachers will be striking today at a school being forced to become an academy.

The social care system is at breaking point, with 88 per cent of social workers fearing that cuts are putting vulnerable children's lives at risk.

Official figures to measure how many vulnerable children go missing from care and are subjected to exploitation are confusing and meaningless, the government admitted today.

Britain’s two biggest unions are threatening strike action at 13 more primary schools against plans to force them to become academies.

Outlook British business has been complaining about the quality of education in this country for so long it has become like a scratched record. Which gets left on the shelf.

It sounds so simple, doesn't it? We've got a problem: truanting kids. So here's a solution: fine the parents. And just to make it simpler still, if the parents don't pay their fine, why not deduct it from their child benefit? That'll teach them, won't it? That, in a nutshell, is the logic of the Government's expert adviser on behaviour, Charlie Taylor, who published proposals this week allowing schools to impose fines of £60 for truancy, rising to £120 after 28 days.

Parents want their children to do well; they know going to school will help them do that

You write "Teachers do not always know best" (leading article, 6 April); so who knows better? As a retired teacher, whose family has served state education continuously since the late 1800s, and with a brother and sister-in-law both primary heads and a daughter teaching in a secondary school, I believe that my experience enables me to have an opinion.

Education Secretary Michael Gove has succonded 133 civil servants to oversee his free schools project despite the fact only 24 of the schools are open.

Teachers called yesterday for strike action against schools planning to convert to academies.

Union delegates fear Government's desire to promote academies is 'just about privatisation'