Motorists have slammed Kingston council after it pushed through plans to permanently install a controversial traffic calming scheme that has raked in more than £3m in fines in just nine months.

Single sex education is better for teenage girls as it takes the pressure off them to try and impress boys in a “sexualised world”, the headmistress of one of Britain's best boarding schools has claimed.

Research published from Aston University and Keypath Education, the global specialists in online education, has revealed the diverse international spread of students studying online degrees at UK universities. A rise in the number of UK universities...

The number of children doing an hour of exercise a day falls by nearly 40% between the ages of five and 12. Figures suggest that by the final year of primary school, just 17% of pupils are doing the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity...

Charity Action on Hearing Loss (formerly RNID) is inviting people from Britain’s Asian communities who are deaf or have hearing loss or tinnitus to join the charity’s research panel and help influence its work.

New legislation was passed in Westminster this week to allow schools in the UK to keep spare adrenaline auto-injectors (AAIs) for emergency use. AAIs deliver a potentially life-saving dose of adrenaline in the event of a severe allergic reaction...

Plans to axe free lunches for infant school children from better off families in England have been scrapped. Schools minister Nick Gibb said the government would "retain the existing provision", having listened "very carefully" to the views...

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani campaigner who survived being shot in the head by Taliban gunmen, has joined Twitter with a call for people to help her fight for girls' education.

Two-fifths (39%) of primary school pupils in England have failed to meet the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics, figures show. The results are from national curriculum tests, often known as Sats, sat by 11-years-olds earlier...