Michael Gove

Education Secretary Michael Gove tells Channel 4 News the prime minister has told him to “get a move on” with widening choice in education, as the government’s free school policy falls under scrutiny.

Education Secretary Michael Gove tells Channel 4 News in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal that media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is “a great man”.

The union representing thousands of headteachers and their deputies is to hold its first ballot on whether to strike in November over a dispute over reductions to their pensions.

Parents whose children play truant risk having their benefits cut, the prime minister warns as he launches a tough approach in education.

Pupils in English schools should study maths up to the age of 18, says a new report commissioned by the Government and led by TV’s Carol Vorderman.

Tens of thousands of public sector workers failed to turn up for work in one of the UK’s biggest instances of nationwide industrial action of recent times.

With the Education Secretary attacking Thursday’s teachers’ walkout as “unnecessary and disruptive”, the Prime Minister hails the proposed pensions reforms as fair for employees and taxpayers.

AQA and OCR apologise and launch investigations after errors were found in A-level and GCSE exam papers sat by tens of thousands of pupils this week.

The Education Secretary announces 200 of the worst-performing primary schools will be turned into academies by 2013. But the move has been criticised by the NUT as “breathtaking ignorance.”

Some schools will be able to prioritise children from poorer backgrounds in a shake-up of the admissions code. Access is a nationwide problem, as Channel 4 News’ Robert Windscheffel explains.

As new adoption guidelines remove barriers between children and potential parents, a charity tells Channel 4 News the move should ease “the sense of abandonment”.

The High Court rules that Education Secretary Michael Gove was wrong to scrap parts of England’s school-building programme without consultation. His Department could now face compensation claims.

Multiculturalism in Britain has failed to provide a vision of society in which members of all ethnic groups feel they want to belong, Prime Minister David Cameron tells a Munich security conference.