I feel a bit sorry for the Cambridge professor Jason Arday: everyone from Angela Rayner to yours truly creates a ‘story’

Years of improved attainment for working-class pupils risks being undermined by diluting an emphasis on excellence

Too many prime ministers have failed to strike a better balance with academic studies

Giving teenagers the vocational skills the country needs is a laudable aim but it will require upheaval in the classroom

Richard Graves’s new memoir Imperial Dreams covers my own years at Charterhouse, where beating was virtually on the timetable

Pupils in Barnet are said to be happier, more sociable, better behaved and their academic results have improved — and they don’t miss their phones

Searches for language tuition have jumped by 550% and sales of Homer’s poem have soared as audiences seek a deeper connection with Greece’s cultural heritage

Alex Chui secures his seventh consecutive International Mathematical Olympiad medal after completing nine hours of problems without losing a single mark

Cases have risen dramatically since the pandemic. This is how two schools manage the load

The youngest black professor ever ­appointed at Cambridge has been accused of plagiarising the work of other academics, a month before his memoir is published