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Full-time employees in the UK work two and a half weeks more a year than the EU average, TUC analysis of recent Eurostat data has revealed, meaning that, if not the hardest working in Europe, they certainly put in the most hours.

The Department for Education (DfE) is to fully-fund increased pension contributions that state-funded schools and colleges will have to make in 2019/20.

Education is one of a number of areas highlighted by the Home Office in an appeal for a multi-agency approach to preventing and tackling serious violence.

The UK’s largest academy chain faces a potential dispute with seven education unions over job cuts, low wages and outsourcing.

The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) has announced that changes to be introduced from 6 May 2019 will affect both applicants and Registered Bodies.

The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) has issued a range of materials aimed at both supporting Exams Officers and explaining their role to other staff and to parents.

The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) has urged retailers to crack down on early Easter egg sales to tackle obesity.

To increase public awareness about both the causes and cures for what has been described as the modern stress epidemic, this event has been held every April since 1992.

Local authorities struggling to fill vacancies for educational psychologists might find their task made easier, thanks to new Government funding.

The Government’s Education Secretary, Damian Hinds, has outlined details of a new expert group to work to look for new ways to support teachers in schools and colleges in dealing with the pressures of their jobs.