56 m. ago Southport attacker’s father called him ‘good boy’ after school knife incident

The Southport Inquiry heard from Axel Rudakubana’s former headteacher on Wednesday.

Events

4 h. ago Kids at school called me thick but I had dyslexia, says Victoria Beckham

Victoria Beckham has revealed she was bullied during her school days, with children calling her “thick”.

Politics

4 h. ago PM calls for school trust to ‘reconsider’ providing ramp for young girl

Millie Blair was diagnosed with osteosarcoma on her 11th birthday last year.

Politics

5 d. ago Calls for inquiry into demolition of village school over landslip fears

MP David Chadwick said it was "deeply troubling" that the situation in Ystalyfera remains unresolved

Politics

5 d. ago Police release man’s 999 call after ‘gentle’ school teacher murdered 30 years ago in east London

Devout Christian Joy Hewer - ‘who hurt no one’ - was sexually assaulted and stabbed six times before her Walthamstow flat was torched in October 1995

Events

6 d. ago School pupils in letter writing campaign calling for road safety improvements at Castle Douglas crossing

There have been a number of near misses near the town's primary school since the lollipop man was axed due to budget cuts.

Politics

8 d. ago ‘Under 5ft 5in? Forget about being a prince!’ How the Royal Ballet is kicking out the old rules

What will the ballet dancer of the future look like? We visit the hunting lodge where the next generation are being trained – and find huge changes are under wayIt’s an idyllic autumn day in leafy Richmond Park, London, where a grand Georgian hunting lodge houses the Royal Ballet school. Enter through the classical columns and it feels like a bubble away from the world. “I was on a video call with my son,” says the school’s artistic director, Iain Mackay. “He said, ‘Where are you? Hogwarts?!’” This is indeed a place of magic for children who come here, hoping to follow in the footsteps of generations of leading dancers. They touch the middle finger of Margot Fonteyn’s statue for luck as they pass, the bronze rubbed shiny by their superstition.Getting a place at the school, founded in 1926 by the formidable Ninette de Valois, is a huge achievement. Two years ago, 40 students were accepted from more than 1,000 applications (all on merit – 90% are supported by bursaries). Mackay, 45, a...

Politics

8 d. ago ‘Under 5ft 5in? Forget about being a prince!’ How the Royal Ballet school is kicking out the old rules

What will the ballet dancer of the future look like? We visit the hunting lodge where the next generation are being trained – and find huge changes are under wayIt’s an idyllic autumn day in leafy Richmond Park, London, where a grand Georgian hunting lodge houses the Royal Ballet school. Enter through the classical columns and it feels like a bubble away from the world. “I was on a video call with my son,” says the school’s artistic director, Iain Mackay. “He said, ‘Where are you? Hogwarts?!’” This is indeed a place of magic for children who come here, hoping to follow in the footsteps of generations of leading dancers. They touch the middle finger of Margot Fonteyn’s statue for luck as they pass, the bronze rubbed shiny by their superstition.Getting a place at the school, founded in 1926 by the formidable Ninette de Valois, is a huge achievement. Two years ago, 40 students were accepted from more than 1,000 applications (all on merit – 90% are supported by bursaries). Mackay, 45, a...

Politics

1 week ago Government responds to calls for school week to be cut from five to four days

Tens of thousands of people had signed a petition demanding the change

Politics

1 week ago Heartbroken mum's poignant tribute as girl, eight, dies at school

Olivia-Grace Huxter died after emergency services were called to Penrhys Primary School on Wednesday afternoon

Events

1 week ago School enters 'partial lockdown' after police called out to 'man seen with gun'

Parents were told about the 'precautionary measure'

Events

1 week ago Little girl, eight, dies after suffering 'medical episode' at primary school

Emergency services were called to Penrhys Primary School in Ferndale, Rhondda, South Wales just after 2pm yesterday after the pupil fell ill.

Events

1 week ago UK primary school incident after girl, 8, dies suddenly as police called

Penrhys Primary School in the Rhondda is closed after the death of one of their pupils on Wednesday afternoon. South Wales Police was called to the school to reports of a pupil suffering a medical episode

Events

1 week ago Pupil aged eight dies as police called to Welsh primary school

The school has been closed to all pupils on Thursday

Events

2 w. ago No apology and no answers: parents in agony amid search for children trapped in Indonesia school collapse

Officials say 59 people, mostly young male students, remain trapped in collapsed school in Sidoarjo amid growing questions about the quality of its constructionAs the call to prayer rang out over the boarding school in Indonesia’s East Java on Monday afternoon, the floor beneath more than 100 students gathered in prostration suddenly gave way.So quickly were the four storeys of the Al Khoziny school flattened that one official described it as a “pancake” disaster. Continue reading...

Society

3 w. ago Call for complete rebuild of Welsh school with hundreds of structural defects

Emergency works were started earlier this year at the school, with a contract of more than £0.5m awarded for urgent repairs after more than 700 building defects were found

Politics

3 w. ago At Catholic colleges, student activists go underground to boost access to contraception

At DePaul University, a Catholic school in Chicago, students have created a covert contraceptive delivery network called “the womb service.”

Politics

3 w. ago My daughter was kicked out of school because her ‘unnatural hair’ – I’m furious, it doesn’t affect her learning

A MUM has blasted her daughter's school after the teenager was banned from class due to her ''unnatural hair''. Lydia Beaumont's daughter Calliah, 13, was sent home from Lliswerry High School in Wales after turning up to a class with muted tones of pink and purple in her tresses. Within minutes, the teen was told by...

Politics

3 w. ago Prince William has 'genuinely sweet' reaction after hearing what school kids call him

Prince William and Princess Kate visited Southport to meet with the families of the victims of the Southport attacks, and the prince was truly delighted and shocked by a school's greeting

Politics

3 w. ago Indonesia faces calls to halt free meals program as over 5,000 school children fall ill

Indonesia's government is facing calls to suspend President Prabowo Subianto’s multi-billion-dollar free meals program after thousands of students fell sick from food poisoning

Politics