The musician and TV presenter just wanted to reopen the music department, but has become much more deeply involved in the lives of pupils

A whistleblower who claims she was “vilified” by an NHS gender identity clinic after raising concerns about the safety of children undergoing treatment has been

School Standards Minister Jonathan Gullis was branded out of touch by Labour for suggesting that scrapping charitable status for private schools was one of his greatest worries in education

A mother has won the first High Court ruling to stop her child, who believes they are the opposite sex, being treated outside the NHS. The interim order, made in August, prevents the woman’s ex-hus...

A primary teacher who was sacked after refusing to call an eight-year-old schoolgirl by a boy’s name or use male pronouns is to fight a legal test case.The tea

Our study of pandemic grade inflation shows that many leading independents at least doubled their clutch of A*s

The past was not always a great place to be a woman. I have just turned 70 and when I was at school in the 1960s, if a girl became pregnant, even when she had b

All primary school teachers should read a story to their class for 30 minutes a day, according to the bestselling author and former children’s laureate Michael Morpurgo.He is launching a campaign for...

For many people, the story that emerged last week of an 18-year-old girl who expressed doubts about ‘‘transgender ideology” and was bullied out of school by he

Julia Waters has kept a note that was stuck to the wall in her sister’s office. Written in the squiggly script of a child just learning handwriting, it reads: “I am strong. I am kind. I am smart. I...

Clare Page’s 15-year-old daughter came home from school last autumn flustered. She had been told during a lesson to be “sex positive” about her attitude to relationships, and that “heteronormativity”...

The sporting legend Gary Neville doesn’t hesitate for a second. Asked whether he wishes he’d taken a university degree when he was a teenager instead of playing football and his answer comes back...

A landmark case to stop the NHS prescribing “experimental” puberty blockers to children who say they want to change their gender is to go ahead after judges gave it the green light last week.One of...

Teenagers with gender dysphoria are directed to websites where they can illegally buy hormones — no questions asked

For Tanya Carter, a mother of four girls, the death of Jayden Lowe, a transgender teenager who took his own life last year after buying hormone treatment from doctors online, was the last straw.Car...

Baroness Nicholson said yesterday that she was sad and surprised to be dropped as an honorary vice-president of the Booker Prize Foundation, the literary accolade founded by her husband, after being...

Police have been urged to rewrite the rules on hate crime after a judge likened a force to the Gestapo over its handling of a businessman who tweeted about transgender people.Mr Justice Julian...

A law professor has asked the universities minister to set up an inquiry into the “suppression of academic freedom” after complaining of being blacklisted from events and jobs because of “spurious...

Will Quince gave reaction to Commons question about single-sex schools seeking guidance for inclusion of trans pupils

Academics at Cardiff University who signed a letter raising concerns about freedom of speech in relation to transgender rights have had their names and photos

The new head of Stonewall, an LGBT charity that campaigns for “acceptance without exception”, allowed a top social scientist to be barred from a discussion of how Britain conducts its census. Nancy...

A hedge fund billionaire has given £100 million to Cambridge University in the largest ever British donation to an educational institution.David Harding, who studied physics at Cambridge 40 years...

More than a dozen academics, including several leading feminist professors, fear their freedom of speech is being silenced by students complaining they are transphobic. They include Selina Todd, a...

Oxford University colleges have been told to overhaul their rules on free speech after a leading history professor was banned from speaking at a conference she helped to organise after pressure from...

A ‘gender-critical’ leader who won compensation after being expelled from the organisation says it must reassess its stance

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A leading choreographer forced to step down from her own dance company after being accused of transphobia is to launch a new troupe in which all performers wi

Hundreds of students with the worst A levels are going on to get first-class degrees each year, fuelling fears of grade inflation at universities. Analysis by The Times shows that more than 2,000...

Artists who have found themselves and their work cancelled over their personal beliefs will be supported by a new organisation which describes itself as “an eme

Feed the Future: The former One Direction member relied on free school meals as a child

A blind Ghanaian student who was manhandled out of the Oxford Union last autumn has reached an out-of-court settlement with the prestigious debating society.A

In a letter to The Telegraph, dons warn against cancelling appearance by feminist Kathleen Stock over her gender-critical views

An exam board has been forced to defend a GCSE maths question involving calorie counting after being criticised on social media for causing distress to pupils with eating disorders.At least one was...

In the English department on the top floor of Tiverton High School, there are holes in the ceiling. Rain leaked in last year, damaging GCSE coursework. When a t

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The TV chef Jamie Oliver has said he is “shocked and disappointed” at the Conservative manifesto pledge to scrap free school lunches for younger primary pupils,

Dr Shereen Benjamin, a senior lecturer in primary education at the University of Edinburgh, has been compared to a eugenicist and a white supremacist. Comp

He may be settling abroad and stepping back from being a working member of the royal family from the end of this month, but Prince Harry will carry on backing at least one British cause he feels...

The parents of a teenager who is quitting a school that teaches topics such as white privilege and being gender queer are seeking the right to see “secret” less

England’s first NHS child gender clinic is being threatened with legal action over its use of “experimental” treatments for children as young as 11.The case, being brought by the mother of a patient...

The last time Robert Abrahart saw his daughter Natasha alive, he was standing on the doorstep of the family’s Nottingham home, waving her off to university to c

Trapped in an Iranian jail since her arrest at Tehran airport in 2016, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is allowed two visits a week from her daughter Gabriella, 4, while her British husband Richard...

Oxford and Cambridge have accepted record numbers of state school pupils to start this autumn, including some who did worse than expected at A-level.Oxford is e

Last year our 14-year-old son was accused of sexually assaulting girls at his school. I was at home when the phone call came from my son’s private school near L

For the boy’s family the declaration this year that he was trans came “absolutely out of the blue”.Within days of it, the boy sent his parents a text message

When Sophie Winkleman found out that her children’s schools were bringing in iPads for them to use from the age of six, she was so alarmed that she took them out of the school. Twice. The former Peep...

Liz Truss could abolish rules on the number of nursery staff required to look after children in a drive to make childcare cheaper. The prime minister has spoken

Children should listen to music by Mozart rather than Stormzy, says one of the UK’s top ethnic minority head teachers, who is critical of rap and grime music’s abrasive lyrics.Katharine Birbalsingh,...

Children are being taxed out of reading, according to nearly 700 leading writers, ranging from the creator of Horrid Henry, Francesca Simon, to the children’s laureate, Cressida Cowell. In a letter...

Rebecca Whitehurst never wants to set foot in a school again.She also wants all teachers, especially female ones, to wear bodycams, to have CCTV in every class

Yesterday was another difficult moment for the family of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after Gabriella, now five, started school. Her mother is still thousands of miles away in an Iranian jail.

Richard Ratcliffe ended his 15-day hunger strike outside the Iranian embassy in London yesterday morning after his wife, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, told him she had decided to start eating again.She...

Girls at a single-sex school in Merseyside will be able to wear trousers after a petition was signed by thousands of people, including politicians and celebri

Sarah Prior’s son, who is six, was incredibly excited to tell her that he had been cast as Joseph in his school nativity play. She spent hours last week making

Schools have been given the green light to drop poetry from the GCSE syllabus for the first time in the 2021 exams.The exams regulator Ofqual announced yesterday that pupils taking the English...