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Parents have shared the varying reasons they avoid arriving at the school gates early after one mum confessed she waits until the last minute to make her way to the playground on purpose

A year 13 pupil from the Oswestry School, in Shropshire, tragically passed away in her sleep, leaving staff and pupils at the school shocked

Langalam Viki had been reportedly missing for an entire day before her body was found drowned in a pit toilet the following day on March 7 at Glen Grey Primary School in South Africa

The draft advice tells police forces that defendants “can be named”, rather than current guidelines saying they “should be named” unless in exceptional circumstances

The teenage boy shot two deans once they found a gun on him during a search, then fled the East High School in Denver, Colorado, police said.

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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

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

Despite being 29, Hyejeong Shin managed to sign herself up at New Brunswick High School because she wanted to relive the student experience, according to her lawyer

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

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

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

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

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'

A school teacher has claimed there's a secret code that teachers use when talking to parents about their kids - and it could mean your child is disruptive in class

Nottingham mum Hayley Birtley, 38, says she was "disgusted" by her son's school after he was separated from classmates for wearing trainers

A woman has taken to Reddit to share how her parents spent her college fund on her brother's lavish wedding, despite her great-aunty setting thousands aside specifically for her

Ruth Perry, 53, who was the headteacher at Caversham Primary School in Reading, took her own life in January after being told the school was being downgraded from Outstanding to Inadequate