4,000 kids under five kicked out of school

More than 4,000 pupils aged only five or under have been suspended from school.

Truancy soars to record level as 18,000 primary school pupils skip classes EACH day

More than 80,000 under-12s are missing a day of school every week as truancy from primaries soars to record levels, new figures show.

After-school patrols to fight crime

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has announced £3 million funding for after-school patrols in knife-crime hotspots.

Admission flaws in many schools

Half of England’s schools which control their own admissions have been breaking the law, a survey suggests.

Migrants ‘drain on schools’

Schools are at breaking point due to the huge influx of foreign pupils, a heads’ leader warned.

How to tell parents their child is overweight

A row has erupted after the government urged schools to avoid the term “obese” when writing to any parents whose children are found to be overweight.

Thousands of five-year-olds can’t write their own name after a year at school… despite £12bn spent on nursery education

One in seven children struggles to write his or her name after a year at primary school, official figures showed yesterday. Fourteen per cent of five-year-olds – almost 80,000 – are unable to scribble ‘mum’, ‘dad’ or their first name from memory. Some 11 per cent have trouble sounding out the alphabet, and four in [...]