All news on the topic: Education

Abigail Zwerner, 25, has spoken publicly for the first time since a six-year-old boy took out a gun from his backpack and shot his teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia, US on January 6

The preschool in Markham, Ontario, Canada, closed without warning in 2016, leaving the children with no place to go and parents scrambling to receive a refund for their $7,000 a year tuition

Students at the University of Manchester have been protesting over what they have slammed as extortionate rent payments, occupying a number of buildings on campus

Karen Woods, 53, quit school at 15 and only learnt to read and write after a promotion at work - just months later, she wrote her first novel

The group had been waiting for the morning bus for school in Maryland, US, when a suspected kidnapper seized a child and tried to drag them to a nearby apartment

Northumbria University student Jason Brockbanks, 24, had been dating Aaron Ray, 21, for three months before he was murdered after a night out in September last year

Tom Cruise has reportedly not had a relationship with his daughter Suri since 2013, a year after he and Katie Holmes divorced

23-year-old Van Essa does not come from an overly tall family but she believes it is thanks to her the genetics from her father that she is so tall, her father is 6ft 2" and her mother is 5ft 5"

Department for Education data shows millions of school days are lost to holidays during term time but parents are facing sky-high prices over peak holidays

Ruth Perry, who was head at Caversham Primary School in Reading, killed herself in January while waiting for an Ofsted report which gave her school the 'inadequate' rating

Ofsted's inspection process has been branded unfair by the sister of a 'highly regarded' headteacher who took her own life after her school received a negative report

Forty per cent of young people suffered from bullying in the last year, and most schools maintain they 'take bullying very seriously' - although some don't even record incidents or statistics

Ruth Perry, former headteacher at Caversham Primary School in Reading, took her own life in January - now the head of another local school says she's refusing entry to Ofsted inspectors

A student was forced to present the excuse to end all other excuses after a rogue meatball escaped from her sandwich and plopped onto her keyboard midway through a test, submitting her incomplete answers

Tyler Keys, 5, from Essex, was diagnosed with a rare brain cancer after going for a regular check-up. Tyler was recommended to have the test after his teacher became concerned about his learning

Lindsey Bauer, 46, abused her position while teaching at Colyton Grammar School in Exeter, with a Teaching Regulation Agency panel finding she sent "sexually aggressive" texts to a student

One in seven primary schools in England is currently rated as 'outstanding', Ofsted figures show. However, many schools have not been inspected in years, some in almost two decades

Parents and guardians of vulnerable people in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales described their loved ones being attacked in the street - with one mother's son returning home with a bloodied and battered face

A mum has shared the heartbreaking poverty her family faced before she started an agency to find child stars – and now reportedly makes $100,000 a month.

Anwita Patil was 11 when she took the test with Mensa, the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world - she received a score of 162 while Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking were believed to have IQs of 160

Australian hooker, who's hardly booted goals since his schoolboy days, found himself as an unlikely goalkicker when the Super League champions got back to winning ways against Hull FC

The wife of former Southampton striker Charlie Austin has divided followers after revealing her 16-year-old daughter had 'finally punched the bully in the face'

Plumber Badger Scott, his wife Kayla and their children have travelled through 10 countries in a converted minibus and are now living off-grid in rural Portugal

Explosive prop, 23, has been one of top performers in early Super League rounds, showing his worth after doing it tough in part-time rugby league while working in social care

An ever-growing body of research points to the fact that nature is not only nice, we need regular doses to thrive, says Kim Jones