All news on the topic: Schools

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is currently escalating his bid to scrap the Equality Act – which prohibits discrimination against anyone – by blaming ethnic minorities for the poor educational performance of white working class boys.

Thousands of pupils will either not be able to attend school this week or will head home earlier than usual because of full or partial school closures amid the extreme heat.

The Met Office today issued a rare red ’danger to life’ extreme heat warning for ’significant disruption to daily life’ as the UK faces road, rail and air travel chaos.

Headteachers will be "strongly encouraged" to restrict pupils using phones during the school day, Wales’ education minister has said.

Three cases of meningitis B have been confirmed in young people in Dorset, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).

The long-awaited inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal will "explicitly examine" whether the ethnicity, culture, or religion of perpetrators directly influenced offending, the Home Secretary vowed today.

‘School wars’ have spread all over London with teenagers encouraged to ‘be violent’ towards each other.

Ukraine’s security service is investigating whether a Kyiv monastery linked to the Moscow Patriarchate has been running an unlicensed school that used Russian-language and Soviet-era materials, raising concerns about attempts to shape children’s identities during the war.

Schools have been forced into lockdown to prevent the spread of a so-called “super-flu” through classrooms.

Police were called to Barwell Infant School at 7:30 am in Townend Road in Barwell, near Hinckley. A man’s body has been found at an infant school in Leicestershire.

RadarOnline.com can report that a former Virginia teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student has been awarded over $10 million after a jury found that a former assistant principal ignored warning signs that the boy had brought a gun to the school.

A devastated mom says her daughter is terrified to return to school after being kicked and punched by a group of youths while walking home.

A 15-year-old boy who stabbed a fellow pupil to death during their school lunch break can now be named as he faces a life sentence today.

Former prime minister Boris Johnson was left in a "thoroughly homicidal mood" by his own Conservative government’s handling of school exams during the Covid pandemic.

A teacher has been removed from the register after allegedly engaging in inappropriate sexual conversations with children at a Wigan secondary school, just two months into the job.

A school in South Wales has closed after the death of an eight-year-old girl.

An media investigation has found that primary school children are using Ketamine during their lunch breaks, knowing the effects will have worn off by the time they return to class.

A teenager has been detained for three years following an incident involving a knife at a school, where two people were injured.

The government has stated it is making progress in addressing schools that are ‘crumbling’ due to unsafe concrete, as it announced 30,000 students are now learning in schools free from RAAC.

A primary school teacher has been banned from teaching after failing to disclose a relationship with a convicted child sex offender.

Dozens of children have been injured after a primary school in Germany was hit with tear gas.

A schoolgirl who died when a classmate threw a javelin towards her has been pictured for the first time.