Parents in England have been reprimanded online by the UK's Department for Education (DfE) for tweeting answers from their children's SATs exams.

Investigating the impact of escaped farmed salmon on wild Irish Atlantic salmon populations is one of five UCC projects which has been awarded €8.5m in Government funding today. A co-led project brings the UCC figure to €9.3m.

SATs tests for 11-year-olds in England are being sabotaged in an "active campaign" by individuals opposed to British Government reforms, it has been suggested.

A 10-year-old Muslim boy was quizzed by police after mistakenly writing that he lived in a “terrorist house” rather than a “terraced” one.

Calculators are being banned from British primary school maths tests under new plans to improve basic arithmetic.