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All the teenagers collecting their GCSE results this year have overcome significant difficulties. Their secondary school education has been thrown into upheaval by COVID-19: they have faced cancelled classes, have had to learn from home, have dealt with the social isolation and uncertainty of spending a significant part of their…

It can be hard to remember who the Education Secretary is. If you pop out to make a cup of tea you are liable to miss one. Since the last notable incumbent, Michael Gove, left the post in 2014 there have been a further nine education secretaries. Gillian Keegan, the…

Despite Tory pledges to close the attainment gap, this year’s results show it is widening

THE UK Government is recruiting two policy advisors dedicated to help making the “benefits of the Union clear, tangible and understood”....

MPs have suggested the authorities could ignore pubs opening early for the Lionesses big match.

‘We wouldn’t think twice about doing it if the men’s team were playing a World Cup final’

Many pubs won’t be able to sell alcohol until half time

Crooked House pub, which was gutted by fire and then demolished, will ‘rise from the ashes’, MP says

Criticism against the mayor was branded “utter nonsense” by a source close to Mr Khan, who said it had been impossible to start new affordable homes due to Government delays

Exclusive: One in eight privately rented homes poses a serious health hazard, as government urged to clean up ‘Wild West’ sector by going after ‘slum’ landlords

Conservative policies have trapped pupils in a zero-sum game. Ending unfair selection and rethinking exams could start to change this, says journalist Fiona Millar