Ten days of music, historical reflections and family entertainment begin on Friday with the opening of the 10th Portsmouth...

The number of children able to attend Kingston Grammar School on either free or subsidised places is set for a boost, following a major overhaul of the schools scholarship and bursary...

Children's sense of reality is being eroded by soap operas, game shows and computer games, according to a leading headmaster. By Graeme Paton, Education Editor Published: 10:00PM BST 15 Jun 2009 The influence of programmes such as Big Brother and I'm A...

All schools should be given the freedom to ditch GCSEs in favour of a new baccalaureate qualification for 16-year-olds, the headteacher of one of the country's leading independent schools will say...

Olympic diver Tom Daley started at a new school today after his parents said bullying forced the teenager to leave his former college. The 15-year-old shot to national fame when he was selected for the Beijing Games last year, at the age of 14, and became one of Britain's youngest ever...

Pupils may be unfairly losing out to a handicap...

Traditional British private schools are the new presence in the international school market brandishing brands sometimes hundreds of years old, rivalling the specialist chains and stand-alone...

WHEN schoolboy Razak Farley watched a TV show about top public school Eton his jaw dropped in...

A groundbreaking initiative, which could see a top independent school join forces with a state secondary school to deliver first class education for pupils, is being considered in...

At the beginning of this year, we asked readers to apply to times2 for a unique mentoring scheme. Five people at the top of their field in theatre, business, education, fiction writing and sport offered to give their time free to help five readers to realise their lifetime...

Independent school fees should be tax deductible in recognition of the public service the schools provide, the new chairman of the Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference has...

A leading headmaster today calls for GCSEs to be scrapped and replaced by a system of teacher assessment. As 550,000 teenagers prepare to sit their GCSE examinations from next week, Rod MacKinnon, head of Bristol Grammar School, one of the countrys oldest schools, is calling for a complete...