Education

Education Secretary Michael Gove apologises to the prime minister after his row with Theresa May over the “Trojan horse” school claims, despite earlier saying it was not damaging to the government.

A leading Tory says top public schools should give a quarter of their places to children from poorer families. We took him and his Labour opponent to one such school, Wellington College.

Nigeria’s military says it knows where more than 200 missing schoolgirls, abducted by terrorist group Boko Haram seven weeks ago, are located – but says it will not use force to rescue them.

Classic American novels Of Mice and Men and To Kill a Mockingbird could be dropped from the new GCSE English exams by Education Secretary Michael Gove in favour of works by British authors.

State schools are turning out “amoral” children who don’t have a “moral compass” says a leading independent school head. Is he right? Here’s what Channel 4 News readers had to say about it.

Michael Gove is an “ideologically obsessed zealot” who pushed through £400m of cuts to funding for extra school places to help plug a financial black hole in the free schools project, it is claimed.

The kidnapping of 270 schoolgirls shines a global spotlight on Boko Haram’s brutal campaign in Nigeria a four-year rampage of murder, kidnap and attacks on schools.

In a fiery Channel 4 News debate on an alleged Muslim “plot” to take over Birmingham schools, Labour MP Khalid Mahmood says “you have got to keep education secular” – but what do you think?

A senior teacher connected to an alleged Muslim plot to take over a number of Birmingham schools tells Channel 4 News there was a campaign to employ more Muslim teachers – in order to raise standards.

A survey of teachers suggests that some parents are working such long hours, children as young as four are spending 10 hours at school each day, producing “ghost” children. Fatima Manji reports.

Senior police figures criticise Michael Gove’s “desperately unfortunate” decision to appoint a former anti-terror chief to investigate an alleged Islamist plot to take over 25 schools in Birmingham.

Schools watchdog Ofsted investigates 25 Birmingham schools over claims they’re at the centre of an Islamist plot. Council leader Sir Albert Bore says the letter the claims are based on may be fake.

Home Affairs Correspondent Darshna Soni gains exclusive access to the Madani Federation in Leicester criticised for gender segregation in school.

The head of Ofsted, Sir Michael Wilshaw, says too many children from poor backgrounds are not “school ready” aged five, and more nursery provision in primary schools in England would help.