Education

Tardy pupils used to be greeted with a wry “how nice of you to join us”, but teachers should drop this kind of sarcasm to tackle the absence crisis, experts...

Schools are paying up to £500 a day for private consultants to fix an “epidemic” of sleeplessness among pupils since the pandemic. Kerry Davies, a “sleep...

When Eton announced it would open state sixth forms in Dudley, Oldham and Middlesbrough, it was not soon enough for Mahmoud Bah Bah. Mahmoud, 15, has attended...

Only three fifths of children will leave primary school this month having reached the expected level in the 3Rs. New figures from the Department for Education...

Language teaching is in crisis. Only 7,000 pupils took A-level French this year, a tenth of the number that took psychology. At GCSE too numbers have been...

Charles Forsdick can still remember the garlicky sauce on his first platter of snails, sampled as a 13-year-old on a school exchange in Alsace. “I stayed with...

“I’m going to ask you to really mentally commit to concentrating,” says Mustafa Hamada, as he hands me the box. “Try to adopt a soft focus, but really...

When Bodhana Sivanandan plays chess she has to sit on a booster seat. At nine, she is about to become the youngest person ever to represent England...

The four-letter word most liberally used by reality TV show contestants and teenage girls — to the intense irritation of their parents — is not an expletive...

Children who attend academically selective schools do no better in early adult life than those who go to comprehensives, according to a report. Findings...