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Teacher 'attempted murder of pupil'

Police arrested a science teacher aged 49 after a 14-year-old boy was injured along with two other pupils, including a girl

Jamie Oliver reforms see pupils reject school food

Number of children having school meals stalls with only a third of secondary age pupils eating a cooked lunch on site

Students to be offered 'no-fee degrees'

Undergraduates could be spared tuition fees in return for not taking out student loans or applying for grants

Stay-at-home student ‘didn’t miss a thing’

Living under the watchful eye of parents may be a problem for some, but not for Riaz Docrat. He’s still not leaving home

'Pupils should be treated like restaurant diners and give feedback’

School children should be allowed to assess their lessons, despite concerns from teaching unions, says leading head teacher

Mission to declutter the education system

Scotland's first curriculum for 3-18 was intended to 'declutter' the education system

New school curriculum 'complete nonsense' says its creator

Now join up the details, teachers demand

Teachers complain that the Curriculum for Excellence lacks detailed objectives

Dinner lady faces sack for whistle-blowing

Carol Hill told a pupil's parents details of how their daughter was tied up and whipped after school failed to inform them

Fears over marking accuracy of primary tests

Head teachers believe as many as one in five marks could be inaccurate and will have to be sent back for review

Aim for Mars, astronauts urge British children

An American crew are on a mission to inspire inner city youngsters to take to space via science and maths in the classroom

Children abandon languages under new GCSE rules

The withdrawal of the requirement for all GCSE candidates to take a foreign language in 2003 has damaged take-up, study finds

Nearly 50 graduates applying for each vacancy

Employers are being more selective about who they hire and for some a 2:1 may be the minimum requirement, a survey suggests

Roget’s not the first but now seen as best

Peter Roget was a physician who took the job up, part-time at first, to create his opus before devoting his career to it

A kiss, smacker, smouch, snog or... slobber

New thesaurus arrives - twice the size of Roget's effort

Charity test signals rise in school fees

An official drive to open up more private school places to poor pupils may result in an increase of fees for paying parents

School places code may be toughened

Urgent investigation into rules aimed at preventing lying parents from flouting admissions system after court case is abandoned