Teachers are facing an increasing barrage of “vile” sexual abuse, unfair allegations of incompetence and videos of themselves taken without their consent being posted online by their pupils, according to a report seen by The Independent.

Older women teachers are being singled out for the sack while they go through the menopause, teachers' leaders declared on Sunday.

The Chief Inspector of Schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, is to take personal charge of the investigation into claims that Muslim hardliners have taken over a number of schools in Birmingham and begun segregating boys and girls in class.

CCTV cameras are increasingly being used in schools to “spy” on staff as they take lessons, a teachers’ conference is to be told today.

A national walkout is threatened as teachers respond with anger to the Education Secretary’s latest school reforms

Teachers will back a major escalation of their strike action over Education Secretary Michael Gove's school reforms by threatening further nationwide walkouts from schools in the summer term.

Pupils in state schools are having to ditch arts subjects at GCSE because they can no longer afford the cost of studying for them, a second report on the impact of poverty in the classroom has said.

Teachers are having to bring in food to give their pupils breakfast every day because they are too hungry and exhausted to learn as a result of increased poverty, according to a report out today.

The controversy over an alleged takeover of Birmingham schools by Islamic hardliners pinpoints the needs for more local scrutiny of schools, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt will say on Saturday.

Chloe Hamilton returned to the city of her childhood to find out whether the classics professor was right to despair at the gulf between town and gown

Record compensation payments totalling around £40 million have been paid out to teachers in the past year as a result of a spate of accidents in schools and botched attempts to fire teachers.

Teachers' leaders are calling for a review of the GCSE and A-level exam schedule next year to help Muslim students cope with a clash between it and Ramadan.

Heads who take on jobs running tough disadvantaged schools risk "committing career suicide", a teachers' leader has warned.

Teachers' leaders warned of a crisis in primary school places on a day when thousands of parents had to face up to the disappointment of not getting their child into their first-choice school.

Education Secretary Michael Gove is allowing England's state school system to be destroyed by "corporate greed" through his controversial free schools and academies programme, teachers claimed yesterday.