Just over half of the schools also say they have found it difficult to recruit governors with suitable skills

The new drive means a total of 50 UTCs have now been approved

Off to the North of England education conference – the traditional curtain raiser of the year.

‘Radical proposals’ would have seen families contribute financially if they earn more than £80k

How Michael Gove would hate this trail-blazing book. Not just another Great War anthology, Pete Ayrton's selection gathers 47 authors from 20 of the countries that fought the first genuinely global conflict. He chooses only prose testaments – fiction, memoirs and, notably, that hybrid forerunner of the "new journalism" moulded by these writers' genre-busting ordeals.

Labour will pledge to stop state schools employing unqualified teachers - and promise to bring an end to the current Government’s “ideological obsession” with school structures.

Increased stress and cuts in pay and pensions have led to high levels of dissatisfaction in profession

Bright pupils ready to sit papers early are held back because of fear over dropping down league tables, says chief executive

Plans for a major expansion of grammar school places through the opening of a “satellite” school in Sevenoaks, Kent, have been vetoed by the Department for Education.

Linking the words "genetics" and "education" can bring the hardiest of educationists out in a rash.

Princess speaks of her love for the budget airline easyJet saying: 'it’s the only direct route to Biarritz'

There is no way that the results of this year’s international PISA test results can be summed up as anything other than a disappointment for the UK.

Professor Robert Coe, from Durham University:  “This seems to underline the view that improvements in GCSEs and some other examinations have had more to do with grade inflation than real sustained improvements over time.”

Teachers' leaders and Labour education spokesman Tristram Hunt claim this is 'dumbing down'