Education

Controversial Conservative manifesto plans to expand grammar schools were quickly dropped after the last election. But now the government has found an extra £50m to enable grammar schools in England to fund places for disadvantaged children.

Liberal Democrat education spokesperson, Layla Moran, used to work as a maths and physics teacher in Brussels and London.

There will be be no winners, even if a planned national funding formula for schools goes ahead, according to new research.

Laura McInerney, a former teacher and the editor of Schools Week, and Toby Young, the journalist and director of the New Schools Network, a charity for groups wanting to set up free schools.

The Government is to make £320m pounds available to fund 140 new free schools in England. And that could pave the way for some of the new schools to become selective grammar schools.

In the studio, Jo Yurky, a parent and co-founder of the fair funding for all schools campaign, and Jules White, the head teacher of a school in West Sussex. And in Leeds is David O’ Hara the Chair of Governors for a school in Barnsley.

After years of lobbying from areas which claimed they’d been underfunded, the government has come up with a proposed new so called “fairer funding formula”.

Children aren’t getting enough mental health support at school – according to a survey of head teachers.

Art education is marginalised in classrooms and under systemic assault.

Teaching unions say that 98 per cent of schools in England will lose out from the new national funding formula announced before Christmas.

Some of England’s biggest cities, including London, Birmingham and Manchester, are set to lose out as the Government announces plans for one of the biggest changes to school funding in decades.

As he steps down as head of Ofsted, Cathy Newman has been speaking to Sir Michael Wilshaw.  

Militants open fire on students and staff at a university in Charsadda, in north-west Pakistan, killing at least 19 and injuring scores more.

Students protest in London against a student loans system that already costs them some £40,000 over three years, and is set to become even more expensive, especially for those on low incomes.