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The vast majority (91%) of penalty notices were for unauthorised family holidays, the Department for Education said.

National Education Union teacher members have already staged seven days of walkouts in sixth form colleges.

The total number of approved special access arrangements for GCSE, AS and A-level exams rose by 12.3% in the past year, according to Ofqual data.

The Department for Education (DfE) does not have a strategy to tackle the problem, a report from the National Audit Office has warned

He struggled to answer a question over child allowance rates in media interviews to promote Tory plans to extend the child benefit system

The latest figures released by Department for Education show a stark rise in rates of school suspension, where a child is not allowed to attend the school for a set time, typically on disciplinary grounds. Suspensions are up 31% in spring 2022-23 from the same period the previous year.

The National Education Union will decide next steps over pay and funding at its annual conference in Bournemouth next week

Number of severely absent children was 150% higher last year than pre-Covid, with one in 50 children missing at least half of lessons

Professor Shitij Kapur said universities would need to recruit more international students if undergraduate tuition fees remained frozen.