Education

Too many vulnerable children have been left at risk of harm for far too long, according to Ofsted Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman.

15 years after his first crusade to improve school meals, Jamie Oliver is again warning that too many schools are dishing out junk food, fizzy drinks and sweets, while levels of child obesity are on the rise.

Students at an all female Cambridge college will be given lessons on fertility – after the college’s new president said she wanted to stop young women “forgetting to have a baby” until it was too late.

New figures show that one in 20 young people at secondary school in England are estimated to have had coronavirus last week.

We were joined by Professor Peter Slee, the vice chancellor of Leeds Beckett University, and by Stephanie Macaulay, a third year student in the business school at Leeds Beckett.

Over the next two weeks in Leeds, more than 70,000 students will arrive at the city’s five separate universities.

We spoke to Education Minister Gillian Keegan and began by asking how much confidence there should be in today’s results.

Students have won record numbers of top GCSE grades after another year of cancelled exams and disrupted education. Almost a third of students in England and Wales got the highest marks – rising to 40 per cent in Northern Ireland. But the gap in outcomes has widened between state and private schools. Throughout the pandemic,…

It’s been A-level results day for students in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, and despite all the disruption caused by the pandemic, record numbers of them have won top grades. 

We spoke to the Universities Minister Michelle Donelan, and began by putting it to her that if you can’t compare these results to any other year – as her boss Gavin Williamson said – then doesn’t that defeat the point of the exam system?

There’s something to celebrate for students whose education has been disrupted for another year by the pandemic – a record number of A and A* grades in A-levels in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. 

We spoke to Sarah Butler, a mother from Bolton who has 13-year-old and 16-year-old sons, we asked her how their school has been affected by lockdown rules.

Ministers have suggested that the current rules, which mean whole bubbles of pupils have to self-isolate if there are cases, might be changed by the autumn.

Andrea talks to Krishnan about her political passions including her experiences being one of the leading advocates for Brexit, why she has chosen to open up about her postnatal depression and whether she would run again for Tory leadership.

Before the news of Sir Kevan Collins’ resignation emerged, we spoke to the Conservative MP and chair of the Commons Education Committee, Robert Halfon, and 15-year-old Thea Roland, a school pupil who has just finished her GCSEs.