9 h. ago Is YOUR area a teenage truancy hotspot? Interactive map names and shames parts of England with worst secondary school attendance

Schools in a Northern town close to Liverpool have the most truants in England, MailOnline can reveal. Kids there skip school at more than double the national average.

Culture

20 h. ago Suella Braverman's former private school faces closure because of Labour's VAT raid on fees

A private school once attended by Suella Braverman is facing closure because of Labour's 20 per cent VAT on fees.

Politics

43 h. ago Labour's tax raid on private education set to claim another victim as independent school attended by Suella Braverman becomes latest to face closure

St Hilda's Prep School for Girls said it was 'consulting' on a potential closure this summer following the government's bombshell plans to introduce a 20 per cent VAT rate on fees.

Economics

44 h. ago Young Brits ditch booze for trainspotting thanks to viral TikTok star

TikTok star Francis Bourgeois - real name Luke Nicolson - has put trainspotting on the map with younger Brits after one video of him reacting to a GB Class 73/9 locomotive called Dick Mabutt went viral

Politics

58 h. ago ‘Horrendous’: the ‘ridiculously common’ lies people tell on CVs, and what happens when they are discovered

Fake reasons for leaving jobs, manipulated dates and inflated titles among most frequent falsehoodsIn 28 years of recruitment, Matt Collingwood has witnessed some “very awkward” job interviews. Like the candidate whose CV falsely boasted of a second-dan black belt in taekwondo, only to discover his interviewer was an aficionado of the sport. “An interview that should have been an hour lasted 15 minutes,” said Collingwood, the managing director of the IT recruitment agency Viqu.Or the candidate who claimed he had attended a certain private school, which his interviewer had also attended and would have been in the year above. But when asked for teachers’ names, the school motto, even where the sports field was, “he was clueless. Didn’t get the job.” Continue reading...

Politics

3 d. ago Princess Andre 'bans' Katie Price from wearing certain outfits to school events

Katie Price has revealed that her daughter Princess Andre would often deliver a brutal dressing down over her outfit choices whenever she attended school events.5

Politics

4 d. ago Woman had four kids with her uncle and never taught them how to eat or talk

The children were found to be malnourished, nonverbal, unable to walk, wearing diapers and had never attended school, according to court documents, as the mum faces a lengthy prison sentence

Politics

4 d. ago Former Treloar pupils claim school ‘failed’ them amid compensation battle

Richard Warwick, Gary Webster, Steve Nicholls and Adrian Goodyear all attended the Lord Mayor Treloar School and College in Hampshire.

Events

6 d. ago Boost in school attendance in Merthyr after parents fined over kids skipping days

A council committee report has given the latest data on school attendance in Merthyr Tydfil

Culture

9 d. ago Parents' fury as paedophile given permission from school to attend kids' dance

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: The man was seen pointing his phone camera in the direction of students aged between five and eleven on a dance floor at an Elementary School in Kansas - leaving parents horrified

Events

1 week ago More support needed for Scots school leavers not attending university

"Young people should have the same opportunities regardless of their choices when they leave school."

Culture

1 week ago Pensby High School headteacher handed £10,000 pay out after suing parents for harassment

Kevin Flanagan, headteacher of Pensby High School, on the Wirral, claimed damages over the behaviour of Keith and Stephanie Critchley whose children used to attend the school

Economics