Strict directives and endless inspections add strain to an already stressful role and rob us of any autonomy. This must stop When I started my career in teaching, I was encouraged to be creative and experiment. I loved that freedom…

One of Sydney’s newest schools, The Ponds High, is full just three years after it was built and before it even has years 11 and 12, prompting concerns that the NSW Department of Education has underestimated swelling enrolments in public…

Who is the new man in charge of higher education in England? Sam Gyimah has been made Universities and Science Minister for England in Theresa May’s government reshuffle. Mr Gyimah’s role straddles the Department for Education and the Department for…

Children need help to navigate social media once they leave primary school, England’s children’s commissioner says. Do young people agree? England’s children’s commissioner says children need help to navigate social media once they move up to secondary school. Do young…

COMPANIES that sells plagiarised essays to students are “immoral”, Scottish universities have said. Universities Scotland, which represents the sector, called for a clampdown on so-called “essay mills”. Last year it emerged that more than 20,000 students are buying professionally-written essays…

Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner says focus on girls and minority ethnic groups has had ‘negative impact’ on others White working-class children should be motivated to become more aspirational in schools and “push themselves” the way those from other backgrounds…

  Liberia, which elected a new president last week, has among the highest percentage of out-of-school primary children in the world. In a bid to improve the availability and quality of schools, the West African country has been carrying out…

Something was rotten in the Colombian capital’s school food contracts. We faced fierce resistance trying to fix the problem, but we fought to achieve transparency • María Victoria Angulo is education secretary for Bogotá Children at a school in Soacha,…

Grammars have been growing, with more than 7,500 extra places being created since 2010. Like many mothers, Ruth Cornish started thinking about choosing secondary schools when her children were eight or nine years old. She wanted an academically selective school…