A bad teacher can cost pupils up to half a grade at GCSE, according to new research.

Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, is creating a thick screen of purest smoke after David Cameron's statement that the Government has paid money to schools run by leading members or activists of the anti-Western, extremist group Hizb ut Tahrir (HT).

Telegraph View The Government's plan to curb domestic violence with lessons in schools will confuse children, without solving the problem.

As Abingdon School breaks with tradition to appoint a female head, Rebecca Willis recalls the 'trauma' of being educated with boys.

Children will be given an "immediate" detention for misbehaving at school under Tory plans to scrap existing 24 hours' notice for parents.

A decision to award £113,000 of taxpayers' money to schools once linked to an "extremist" Muslim group has been condemned by David Cameron.

THE shadow chancellor pledges today that Scotland would be guaranteed powers to raise revenue from taxation under a Conservative government.

SCOTTISH ministers were last night under pressure to intervene early in a pay row between councils and their employees as the two sides braced themselves for a protracted dis

SNP ministers have been accused of being soft on crime after a Scottish Government paper recommended extending fixed-penalty notices (FPNs) to minor assault, minor the

THE government was told only days before the Iraq invasion that Saddam Hussein might be unable to use his chemical weapons, the official inquiry into the war has heard.

A FORMER community councillor who threatened to buy a gun and storm a meeting to shoot three former colleagues has been jailed for a total of 16 months.

IT MIGHT seem like an exercise in finding out the blindingly obvious, but that didn't stop council officials in Scotland's capital spending thousands of pounds ask

THE sharing of services between several councils and within council areas is now seen as the only way forward for local government and the public sector if they are to meet u

WHAT is the contemporary case for Scottish independence? Next Monday, the SNP government will set out details for holding a referendum on the issue.

IT IS perhaps inevitable that acts of the Scottish Parliament likely to affect people's livelihoods, property or liberty will attract close attention - and in some cases o

FOR me, the most important aspect of the Calman Commission is that it has at its foundation the protection and continuation of the Union. Sir Ken Calman's primary object

DAVID Boag has been appointed as the Bòrd na Gàidhlig's head of Gaelic usage, the latest senior appointment in the organisation's managerial shake-up.

THE bill is expected to bring forward plans to:

WHEN Jim Murphy stood up in the House of Commons yesterday, his presence at the Dispatch Box may have lacked the fanfare that greeted the arrival of Scottish devolution ten y

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