Commenting on the A-level results, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers’ Union, said:

University fees are a “pointless Ponzi scheme”, the Prime Minister’s former chief of staff said as he called for a radical rethink on higher education. 

The top rate of interest on student loans will be 6.1% from this autumn, after the Government confirmed it would not revisit the policy. 

Government is 'addicted to models now dangerously outdated' says Labour Shadow Minister for Higher Education, Further Education and Skills, Gordon Marsden MP.

Children’s social care services are in “crisis” with three in four councils having overspent their budgets last year, local authority leaders have warned.

An ex-education minister has accused universities of “betraying their mission” after it emerged many are turning away British students in favour of more lucrative foreign applicants.

More world leaders have studied in the UK than in any other country including the US, fresh data has shown.

The UK’s top universities have fired a warning to Theresa May over EU citizens’ rights, warning that the Government’s position is damaging their institutions.

The most disadvantaged children have fallen further behind their peers in the last ten years, a new report has found. 

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers' Union has commented on the Education Policy Institute's Closing the Gap report into the progress made by the Government to narrow the pupil attainment gap.

Official figures on the number of international students staying in the UK once their courses end are “potentially misleading” and should be downgraded, according to the government’s statistics watchdog.

Millions of school pupils could go hungry over the summer holidays, Labour has claimed.

The Government has quietly U-turned on plans to offer free breakfast to all primary school pupils in a fresh embarrassment for Theresa May.

Labour has sounded the alarm over “super-sized” class sizes - warning that the numbers across primary and secondary schools being taught by a single teacher are “skyrocketing”.

A Labour frontbencher has hit out at the number of privately-educated BBC journalists.

Labour has blasted the Government after it emerged that more than 600,000 children are being taught by an ever-increasing army of unqualified teachers.

A shadow minister told students before the election that they would have their debts "wiped off" by a Labour government, it has been revealed.

The average cost of holiday childcare has risen four times faster than wages, new figures from Labour have revealed.

Labour did not know before the election how much it would cost to cancel historic student debt, Jeremy Corbyn has revealed. 

Universities should be required to justify the “exceptional” salaries given to vice-chancellors, Jo Johnson will say today. 

Jeremy Corbyn never promised to cancel student debt if he becomes Prime Minister, his spokesman has insisted.

Theresa May has called on Jeremy Corbyn to apologise for “misleading” students about the number of disadvantaged youngsters applying to university.

Labour will press the Government on its plans to increase tuition fees above £9,000 after being granted an emergency debate tomorrow afternoon. 

Ministers have been accused of "robbing Peter to pay Paul" after it emerged the education budget will be raided to free up an extra £1.3bn for schools.