Category: 'pupils'

Girls are more than twice as likely as boys to achieve a pass in GCSE languages, a study has found. The research, commissioned by the British Council and carried out by the Education Policy Institute, revealed that just 38% of boys sat GCSE languages in 2018, compared to 50% of all girls.

Hammersmith and Fulham (H&F) council has launched a pilot scheme which gives all pupils free breakfast and lunch irrespective of their background.

The number of parents fined for their children's poor attendance at school has increased by 93% to almost 223,000 in 2017-18.

Primary school teachers lose more than a million hours of lesson time each year toilet-training children and teaching them basic hygiene, according to new research.