Education

: “It was very fun, the bushes are going to be good for the animals. I feel it was a good place for the hedge to be planted because it is near a fence made by the council with will protect the new plants.” Jax Year 4

Greenleas join National Tree week

Primary School students taking part in No Pens Day activities

Impact of speech and language challenges on formative school years revealed – fu...

Maternity care

University of Bedfordshire joins national consortium to address maternity inequa...

Algebra, geometry and statistics will all make an appearance in GCSE-level maths

What this year's GCSE maths pupils will learn before their final exam

Woman running outdoors

Bedfordshire academic contributes to new study on women’s safety while exercisin...

Better says some primary schools are reducing the number of mandatory lessons they give

Parents say swimming 'third most important school subject'

Your child's school may close if it becomes too dangerous to travel there

Official temperature and snow day rules for schools in UK cold snap

This is not the first time National Education Union members have gone of strike in recent years

Everything you need to know about upcoming sixth form college strikes

Emma Steel is the head of Every Cherry, which creates and publishes more accessible books

Meet the woman behind ground-breaking new books for children with SEND

Thousands of UK university graduates are purportedly owed refunds on their student loan repayments

Student Loans Company overpaid by £184m - how to check your refund

Young people could miss the chance for invaluable hands-on learning if phones are completely banned from schools

'Banning phones in schools might do kids more harm than good'

Many children and adults alike struggle to self-regulate their phone use 📱

Amber Allott

There have been concerns that private schools raising fees in response will edge out many families

Explainer Why private schools will be taking on the Government in legal battle

Resits take place much like standard GCSE exams

Everything you need to know about GCSE resits

These parts of England are trying to get new academies built

The parts of England getting brand new academies

The education secretary has announced the first university tuition fee rise in eight years

Explainer Everything you need to know about the university tuition fee increase

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Vandyke Upper School Sixth Form to host employer's breakfast

Schools were using their budgets for everything from food to toothbrushes for their students

Two thirds of poorest schools buying hungry kids food out of pocket

A 2018 Parliamentary investigation found that nearly half of UK children felt concerned about telling real news from fake

How to teach your kids to spot fake news

A pupil raises their hand during a lesson. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images).

Last day to apply for secondary and upper school places in Central Bedfordshire

Here's what has been announced for education in Chancellor Rachel Reeves' first Budget

Budget day: What has been announced for schools and education?

Leighton Middle School, left, and Parc Astérix theme park. Images: Google Maps/Jo Robinson.

Pupils left 'distraught' after being denied places on school's French trip

A private schooling expert says that happier children learn better

Private school approach may be the cure for absence woes - expert

Zinedine Meah (centre) is one of the students who has been awarded an assisted place at Bradford Grammar School

Mystery benefactor bankrolls student's places at elite private school

Current SEN spending is putting councils in a tricky position, the report says

Special education system 'failing' - could next week’s Budget fix it?

EE Home Presents: The Circus faces up to half term chaos

Nearly one in five school children are persistently missing school, the latest figures show

The worst offending regions in new school absence data

Homeschooling can offer more flexibility for families, an education expert says

'I'm a GCSEs tutor - here's what you should know before homeschooling'

Dozens of classic books and plays make an appearance of the dense reading lists

The books your A Level English lit student may need to read this year

A Level English students face a hefty reading list this year 📚

Amber Allott

St Leonard's Lower School Year 4 Pupils

Local school delivers Harvest Hampers to villagers and homeless shelter

More flexibility for teachers and better pay and conditions for school support staff are on the cards

What Labour's new employment rights bill means for teachers

Beautiful art work.

Linslade Lower School celebrate Black History Month in style

Gordonstoun was one of two Scottish schools to make the list

The UK's 25 finest private senior schools, named among world's best

Pupils will complete their phonics tests one-on-one with a teacher

What Year 1 pupils are tested on in phonics check, as new results out

How did the UK's top domestic universities fare against the world?

How the UK's top 10 universities compare on the world stage

Central Bedfordshire Council

Council pays mum after issues with daughter's education, health and care plan

The free school breakfast clubs will build on support for families already available, the Department for Education says

When Labour's free school breakfasts will start - what we know so far

England's top sixth forms are a mix of ultra modern schools, and those steeped in history

The 25 best state schools and sixth forms for A Levels in England

Sixth form rankings are determined from students' A Level results (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

How England's best sixth form schools and colleges are ranked

Some of the UK's best performing private schools

How much it costs to go to the UK's 10 best-performing private schools

The Arthur Terry Learning Partnership manages 21 schools, and has handed out iPads to thousands of pupils and teachers

How iPads are transforming education in schools

Central Bedfordshire pupils to receive less funding than their peers

It is now likely GCSE maths and science students will not need to remember formulas for their exams until at least 2027 (Photo: Adobe Stock)

GCSE students to get extra Covid exam help in these key subjects

Central Beds Council has been fined £1,300

Council ordered to pay £1,300 after failing pupil with special educational needs

The RSE curriculum covers a wide range of topics (Image: National World/Adobe Stock)

What England's pupils learn in 'sex ed' - and how it could soon change

Pupils of Greenleas School with the Platinum School Games Mark Award

Greenleas School sustain school games platinum mark

Children at Greenleas School marked their commitment to the development of competition across their two sites and into the community through the award of the Platinum School Games Mark earlier this year.

Rebecca Clarke

Some 64% of children across the country agreed with the statement 'you enjoy school or college' (Image: National World/Adobe Stock)

The regions in England where children enjoy school the most and least

When it comes to highest proportion of top grades awarded, only one county can take the top spot (Image: National World/Adobe Stock)

England's 10 best and worst performing counties in A Level top grades

Secondary schools are typically ranked by their 'Progress 8' scores (Image: National World/Adobe Stock)

How England's best performing secondary schools are ranked

The 300 new nurseries in primary schools are just phase one of the government's plan (Photo: Adobe Stock)

Labour's plan for creating 300 new nurseries in just one year

Teach First say better pay and more flexibility might be needed to recruit more Gen Z teachers (Image: National World/Adobe Stock)

Teaching charity's plan to attract Gen Z into classroom careers

The national curriculum review could shake up what young people learn in school (Image: National World/Adobe Stock)

How to have your say on the new curriculum for England's schools

Have your say on local school places

Parents' views sought by Central Beds Council over 'School Organisation Plan'

Children wave their hands at a nursery school. Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Delays over special needs school places not reported to scrutiny meeting

More than 11 thousand children were considered missing from education at some point last year (Photo: Adobe Stock)

What we know about the thousands of children not enrolled in school

File photo of a student in a classroom

Children “educated in shacks and tent” as special school spaces "on back burner"

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