State-run secondary schools are failing to provide students who opt out of religion access to another subject.

Future increases in school budgets should be linked to enforcing the voluntary nature of any contributions from families to running costs, Fianna Fáil’s education spokesman has said.

More than two dozen speech, language, and occupational therapists are to go into schools and pre-schools in a pilot project designed to improve and speed up access to services.

Law and some health courses are among the most appealing.

Schools in England are losing their sense of humour under piles of data and spreadsheets as headteachers are forced to “wrestle with an octopus” of government initiatives and reforms, a union leader will warn today.

The principal who died in the rampage at a US school was killed while lunging at the gunman, town officials said.

Gunmen in military uniforms kidnapped dozens of people today from a commercial area in central Baghdad.

The Labour Party spokeswoman on Education says the operation of residential care centres for young offenders is on the verge of collapse.

Wardship proceedings in the case of the Internet twins Belinda and Kimberley have been issued in the family division of the High Court, Flintshire County Council said.