No parent should worry about their child’s safety while they work. But a crisis in our early-years sector is shielding predators such as Vincent ChanI remember those initial heart-wrenching days and weeks leaving my daughter, aged nine months, […]

Qualifications watchdog launches consultation amid complaints from pupils about writing fatigue in examsStudents could be sitting some of their GCSEs and A-levels on a laptop by the end of the decade, according to England’s qualifications […]

More than £10bn was committed to building new schools between 2014-15 and 2023-24, compared with £6.8bn for rebuilding existing schoolsConservative governments spent £325m creating 67 free schools that subsequently failed or […]

They face long hours, mediocre pay and, at worst, no job, but their optimism is astonishing – let’s support them betterProf Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of EdinburghWhen I mentioned to colleagues in the […]

Report finds children at Mossbourne Victoria Park traumatised by disciplinary measures ‘designed to humiliate’Staff at a London academy instilled a “climate of fear” among pupils, with a drive for academic success likely to […]