Hayley Clarke Education reporter Jolley family There are pros and cons to having a teacher for a dad, daughter Emma says Exam season is around the corner for GCSE, BTec and A-level students. It’s a time of life that is remembered forever, and the run-up to it can bring stress …

The UK’s largest teaching union will “make Labour MPs pay a high political price” if the government does not offer teachers in England a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise, its general secretary has said. Daniel Kebede said members of the National Education Union (NEU) “expect better from a Labour government” …

A University of Oxford building has been closed for almost a week after a seagull broke a glass roof by repeatedly dropping a stone on it. A spokesperson for the Blavatnik School of Government has confirmed the bird caused damage to a glass panel on the roof on Wednesday. In …

Google The teacher was also found to have made inappropriate comments about Muslims at the school, near Eaton Park A primary school teacher who accidentally showed a film clip containing blackface to a class of Year 5 pupils has been found to have behaved inappropriately. Grace Whiley played the video …

Hazel Shearing Reporting fromNEU conference in Harrogate Getty Images Schools in England closed when National Education Union members went on strike in 2023 Teachers in England will vote on whether or not to go on strike if the government stands by its pay offer for the next school year. The …

Joshua Askew BBC South East Marcella Whittingdale BBC News BBC The government said it had already invested more money into SEND A mother campaigning for better support for children and young people with special educational needs and disability (SEND) in Sussex has said the system is in “crisis” and she …

Richard Price BBC News, West Midlands BBC The strikes are due to take place on five dates across April and May Staff at a university in Staffordshire have voted to strike in a dispute over the merger of two departments and the possibility of job losses. Keele University bosses have …

Lilly-Mae Messenger BBC News, West of England Clevedon School Currently, the school is using a tented ‘learning village’ as classrooms Students are set to move out of marquee classrooms after almost three years of being taught in tents. A two-storey L-shaped building with 24 temporary classrooms, seminar rooms, offices and …

Bob Dale BBC News, South East Gabriel Morris Local Democracy Reporting Service LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTING SERVICE Parents affected by the decisions gathered at a meeting A group of parents have said they will take Kent County Council (KCC) to court over the secondary school places their children have been allocated. …

James Turner Local Democracy Reporting Service Sarah-May Buccieri BBC News University of Lincoln The majority of staff who leave will do so through voluntary redundancy, says the university The University of Lincoln has warned of potential redundancies, as it seeks to balance its books. A spokesperson said it had entered …

Getty Images Many schools were forced to close when teachers walked out two years ago. Teachers in England have said they would be willing to strike over the government’s proposed 2.8% pay rise this year. The offer was rejected by 93.7% of members of the National Education Union (NEU), England’s …

Victoria Gill Science correspondent Kevin Church/BBC News Researchers are using specially designed games and brain-scanning ‘hats’ to work out how children develop key skills Two-year-old Henry is completely transfixed by the iPad in front of him. Every time a smiley face appears he taps the screen – and his tap …

A former Dundee University principal has been named as the chairman of a new taskforce set up to help the financially-stricken institution. Sir Alan Langlands, who has also served as the chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the NHS in England, will chair the new …

Patrick Barlow BBC News, South East Getty Images School headteachers have expressed concerns about children as young as seven having smartphones Children as young as seven are being given smartphones, with some primary school pupils consuming harmful misogynistic content, a headteacher has said. Sophia Dover, headteacher at Cheriton Primary School …

Getty Images Matthew Whale previously taught PE at the Bracknell school (stock picture) A former teacher who had a sexual relationship with a pupil has been banned from the profession 17 years after his school said it raised concerns. Matthew Whale, now 50, taught PE at the then Easthampstead Park …

The government has defended its policy of adding VAT to private school fees, telling the High Court it enhances “the fairness of the tax system overall”. Barristers representing Chancellor Rachel Reeves, as well as HMRC and the Department for Education, said they wanted to raise standards for the 94% of …

Staff at the University of Sheffield have voted to go on strike over “drastic” restructuring plans which aim to save £23m over two years. The University and College Union (UCU) said up to 1,000 jobs would be put at risk by the plans, which have seen the number of academic …

Neve Gordon-Farleigh & Luke Deal BBC News, Suffolk Luke Deal/BBC Curator Katherine Bridges says the exhibition came about after public feedback The organisers of a new exhibition are hoping to transport people as far back as the 1940s with memories of school dinners. The Food Museum in Stowmarket, Suffolk, will …

BBC Simone Collins is sitting in her 18th century cottage in Pennsylvania, dressed in a black pilgrim pinafore with a wide collar, bouncing one of her four children on her lap. It is 8.30am and she looks a little tired – she runs several businesses, a foundation and is currently …

Alex Bish BBC South East Investigations Team PA Media The latest government figures suggest a rise in pupil suspensions for assaults on adults Councils in the South East have paid out tens of thousands of pounds in compensation to staff who have been injured during school violence, a BBC investigation …