Controversial national tests taken by seven-year-olds in England could be scrapped under new government plans.

Essays will be marked down unless they use 'gender-sensitive language', students at a British university have been told.

The University of Wolverhampton has won a top industry award for its work to encourage staff equality. The University took the award for Advancing Staff Equality in the annual Guardian University Awards in London last Wednesday.

The issue of poor behaviour in schools has not been taken seriously enough, says a review by England's behaviour tsar Tom Bennett. The extent of the problem has been underestimated in official data kept by Ofsted, he warns.

Students from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) are using their skills and knowledge on a range of schemes to support the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, which is home to youngsters from some of India’s poorest families.

Term-time holidays accounted for a quarter of unauthorised absences from schools in England, analysis of official figures shows. Almost a million children missed at least one day of school in England, despite the threat of fines.

Council tax has shot up across London with 14 boroughs increasing bills by the maximum of almost five per cent.

Immigration has been a key reason behind London's high achievement in school standards, the former education secretary Michael Gove has said.