The funeral service of British physicist Stephen Hawking was held in Cambridge on Saturday in presence of stars and academics who turned out to pay tribute to the world-famous professor.

Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman risks splitting communities by backing head teachers who may wish to ban the hijab, says a teaching union leader.

Dr Amol Deshmukh, a research associate in the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow has recently completed a project with partners from Amrita University in Kerala, which aimed to explore how a water-carrying robot would affect...

Academy budgets are in an even worse state than those of council-run schools with eight out of 10 in deficit, suggest figures from their accountants. Two more years like this and the entire sector could face insolvency, says a report from the...

Teachers work longer hours - and have seen a sharper drop in pay - than police officers and nurses, a new study suggests.

It has emerged that in the past three years, about 400,000 penalty notices have been sent to parents in England and Wales for children's truancy and term time holidays, where they have been fined £24 million for not sending their children to...

Indian parents are among the worlds most keen to spend time with their children on schoolwork and are also the most optimistic about education standards in the country, a new worldwide education study has revealed.