Anna Davis is the Education Editor and Deputy Campaigns Editor at the Evening Standard. She covers everything from nursery to school, university and beyond.
Anna Davis is the Education Editor and Deputy Campaigns Editor at the Evening Standard. She covers everything from nursery to school, university and beyond.
‘Highly unlikely’ that real papers are being leaked online, but students can still be penalised even if they try to buy fake papers.
Parents say uncertainty surrounding ‘excessive’ strikes, which began in November, has left them anxious and frustrated
Overhaul of ‘Victorian’ school calendar would see summer holidays cut and half terms extended.
Islington council has also been blocked from shutting a half empty “inadequate” school after it became an academy
Education leaders have called for schools to re-think the way they tackle persistent absence
University College London has created businesses that have attracted £2.8 billion in investment over five years
The capital’s pupil numbers crisis + smartphones crackdown
London risks ‘dying from its roots’ as growing numbers of families with children born in the city cannot afford to stay, headteacher warns
Two more London schools hit by falling pupil numbers plan to merge
Unions warn that phone ban is a ‘non-policy for a non-problem
Gresham College said there has been a growth in interest in complex, in-depth lectures.
Spiralling costs of Private Finance Initiative contracts put pressure on schools
Gillian Keegan backs headteachers' right to make policies for their own schools
Drop in birth rate, Brexit, the pandemic and cost-of-living all to blame for the drop in demand for school places
'With over half of reported crimes involving child on child abuse, there has never been a greater need for education in this space'
Katharine Birbalsingh says she's 'nervous but hopeful' about outcome of legal challenge to school’s ban on prayer rituals
More than a fifth of students in England were 'persistently absent' last year
School has been subjected to violence, intimidation and racial harassment, says Katharine Birbalsingh.
One in five children have a book read to them less than once a month
Trips to Chelsea's training ground for children as part of a new partnership
Call for more funding for 'free' childcare places to help struggling nurseries