The Education Committee will look into the reasons for the decline in reading among children and how it can be reversed.

Sir Keir Starmer made his comments during a visit to a school breakfast club in Reading.

The Department for Education has announced schools with more pupils from lower income backgrounds will be able to apply to open breakfast clubs.

Speaking at the Girls’ School Association Conference, the minister for violence against women and girls said teachers should ‘whinge more’.

Anna Maxwell Martin and 22 parent organisations and campaigners were delivering an open letter to the Education Secretary.

Flossie McShea, 17, and Katie Moore, 43, want to see a complete statutory ban on smartphones in schools.

Cheshire Police and Crime Commissioner Dan Price said he wants the county to become the first where all state schools have pouches to lock away phones

The Institute for Government has warned the Government’s budget falls short of matching its ambitions for schools.

Schools’ geographic admissions criteria are ‘effectively ruling out certain pupils’ a study’s lead author has said.

Bridget Phillipson told MPs a statutory reading test will run alongside ‘diagnostic’ maths and writing tests

Ministers will explore developing a new level 3 qualification in data science and AI

The said the move diversifying the music genres taught in schools and removes ‘outdated systems that stop kids from studying music and the arts’.

More than 20 poets have been matched with scientists to deliver climate education in schools through poetry.

The final report of the curriculum and assessment review has recommended introducing new English and maths tests in year 8.

The final curriculum review report, commissioned by Labour last year, has recommended exam volume at key stage 4 be reduced by 10%.

Leigh Day Solicitors said documents from Sheffield Hallam University suggested it had banned Professor Laura Murphy from continuing her research.

The DfE has recommended a 6.5% pay rise for teachers over three years.

More shorter courses would suit learners at different life stages better and enable them to spread costs, Professor Tim Blackman argues

Applicants for undergraduate medicine, dentistry, veterinary science and Oxbridge had to submit by October 15.

Early indications from DfE research are showing there are no systematic issues across the education estate from system builds, MPs were told.