The entrepreneur and philanthropist Jack Petchey receives a knighthood in the New Year Honours list for services to young people in East London and Essex.

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30th December 2015 11:05am

Learn a language in 2016, Britons urged

As the New Year beckons, the British Council is calling on people in the UK to make learning a foreign language their resolution for 2016.

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30th December 2015 12:05am

More pupils 'going to school hungry'

An increasing number of pupils in Scotland are going to school hungry and in some cases are stealing food from classmates, according to teachers.

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29th December 2015 10:22am

VIDEO: Germany's plans to teach child refugees

Max Schmidt, chairman of the German teaching union DPhV, says more teachers are needed to teach German to the child refugees arriving in the country in large numbers.

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29th December 2015 08:26am

Teachers banned for pupil sex talk

Thirteen of 34 of teachers banned from the profession in Wales in the past two years were struck off for having "inappropriate" relationships or conversations with pupils, figures show.

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28th December 2015 04:50pm

Schools remain free to prioritise faith

Schools in England do not need to give non-religious views "equal air time" and should still teach that the UK is principally a Christian country, guidelines say.

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