Almost 500 children a day are allowed back to school following exclusions for attacking staff and pupils. Headmasters issued nearly 90,000 suspensions for physical assault last year, according to official figures out yesterday. This suggests that...

Parents are refusing to work as volunteers in schools after being ordered to undergo criminal record checks, new figures suggest. The number of adults volunteering to help out in nurseries and school reception classes has fallen by more than a...

The government is to commission a review into what a "suitable" and "efficient" education means for home educated children in England. There is no legal obligation for children to attend school - but there is to provide an education that is suitable...

UNDEFEATED champion Nathan Cleverly is trying to find two bullies who made life hell for him as a nine-year-old. Now a strapping 6ft 3ins and 12st 7lbs, Cleverly recalled how the pair picked on him on the streets of a tough South Wales housing...

It was meant to be the first chance for the X Factor finalists to show the public what they're made of. Instead it was the judges who stole the show in an evening rocked by dramatic rows on the panel. Dannii Minogue turned Simon Cowell...