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The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has been urged to use his spring budget to extend free school meals for all primary pupils.The Scottish government has committed to providing free school meals for all primary schoolchildren, while in Wales the…

Campaigners are demanding immediate action after it was revealed more than a tenth of 15-year-olds now vape. Recent figures found that 10.1% of fourth year pupils, and 4.3% of second year students, who are about…

Thousands of 10 and 11-year-olds have failed to get into their first choice of secondary school as offers were made across England, but the expected increase in demand for year 7 places in some big cities once again failed to…

Only 2% of GCSE students study a book written by a female author, according to research by campaigners who are urging exam boards to diversify their set text lists to curb the rise of misogynistic views.Research by End Sexism in Schools…

Disadvantaged children are suffering “geographic exclusion” from England’s best state schools because they cannot afford to live near those with the best exam results, according to new research published by the University of Bristol.The…

A school has been accused of “degrading” and “inhumane” treatment of female pupils after they were made to line up so that male teachers could inspect the length of their skirts.Pupils at Rainford high school in St Helens, Merseyside, have…

Children from disadvantaged backgrounds are struggling to get into grammar schools in many parts of England despite changes to admissions procedures aimed at helping them gain entry, according to research.A quarter of England’s 160 state…

By Miftaudeen Raji A Lagos based muslim school, Flowers and Heart Nursery and Primary school  has sensitized its pupils as well as parents on their civic rights against what it terms as “political apathy,” with a few days into the…

Do we really need toothpaste? Survey shows four in five teachers provide their pupils dental products due to cost-of-living-crisisGiles Coren said there is no need for toothpaste- its brushing not the paste But a good…

It’s a familiar sight every weekday morning and afternoon all over Japan: children as young as six creaking under the strain of a leather backpack crammed with textbooks.The randoseru – a Japanese derivation of ransel, the obsolete Dutch…