Teaching World Blog

A Tory councillor defects to Labour over cuts to the government's schools building programme, saying she was "ashamed to be a Conservative". […]

Fewer children are learning to play a musical instrument than in their parents' generation, a survey suggests. […]

One in four state primary schools in England has no male teacher, statistics show. […]

President Barack Obama's daughter, Malia, is now 12 years old and 5ft 9in (1.75m). But what's it like to be a young girl who's taller than the rest? […]

A 15-year-old maths prodigy is set to become the youngest undergraduate at the University of Cambridge for more than two centuries. […]

England's first city-wide lottery system aimed at solving the problem of allocating places at over-subscribed schools failed to give poorer children equal access to top schools, academics say. […]