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Parent Power 2024: The Times releases its list of Best UK schools & league table

The Sunday Times releases Parent Power 2024 UK guide

A general view of scaffolding at Balbardie Primary School on September 04, 2023 in Bathgate, Scotland, after its buildings were found to contain RAAC. Credit: Getty Images

43 more schools found to have crumbly RAAC concrete

Powerhouse Leeds has announced a new partnership with Production Park in Wakefield, gaining access to its world class virtual production studios and technicians

Production Park: Wakefield creative hotspot announces new Northern alliance

The top 10 messaging mishaps parents do when talking to their kids

The Prime Minister has unveiled plans to scrap A-levels in a huge shake-up to the UK’s education system. Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images

A-levels and T Levels to be scrapped, Rishi Sunak announces

Wakefield College students’ artwork helps to brighten up family hubs in Wakefield, as part of a project with Wakefield Families Together.

Students’ art brightens up public spaces throughout the Wakefield district

Large stretches of the M53 are closed this morning (Friday) due to an accident involving an overturned vehicle. Photo: Google Maps

School bus carrying pupils overturns motorway with casualties confirmed

The best UK universities have been revealed in The Times Good University Guide 2024. Photo by Adobe Photos.

The top 20 UK universities according to Good University Guide 2024

Students across Wakefield, Pontefract, and Castleford have collected their GCSE results today (Thursday).

Year 11 students celebrate GCSE results across the district

Here’s what you can do if you fail your GCSE exams. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

How to resit your GCSE exams if you fail

Pupils across Wakefield, Pontefract, and Castleford will be collecting their GCSE results today.

Live LIVE: Wakefield pupils collect their GCSE results

Nandos is giving away free chicken for students on results day

Free food for GCSE students on results day - including Nando’s

A Level and vocational students across Wakefield are celebrating after receiving their results this morning.

Wakefield students celebrate incredible A Level results

Teenagers across the country will be finding out their A level and T Level results today.

Live A-Level results day 2023: Live updates and reactions from across the district

Nandos is giving away free chicken for students on results day

Free food for A Level students on results day - including Nando’s

Bob Dylan’s Highland country retreat is on the market for £3m - in pictures

Take a look inside Bob Dylan’s Highland country retreat up for sale
Bob Dylan has put his 16-bedroom Highland retreat on the market - find out what £3,000,000 will get you

Tewkesbury stabbing victim releases statement & is ‘recovering well’

Everything you need to know about the A-level and GCSE ahead of the result days in August. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

A-level & GCSEs result days 2023 - what are the dates?

Year 6 pupils are set to receive their SATs results this week - here’s what you need to know.

SATs 2023 results release date - what you need to know

Sir Keir Starmer heckled on stage by green protesters who demand ‘no more U-turns’ from Labour leader

Watch: Sir Keir Starmer heckled on stage by green protesters

Toby has worn a skirt to school in protest of the school’s dress code which stops male students wearing shorts. (SWNS)

Boy wears skirt to school in protest of dress code

University of Nottingham students Barnaby Philip John Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both aged 19, were found in Ilkeston Road just after 4am on Tuesday (June 13) having been stabbed.

Police identify Nottingham attack victims as families pay tribute

Police on Magdala Road, Nottingham where a man was found dead.

Nottingham attacks: Police release sequence of events

Police on Magdala Road, Nottingham where a man was found dead.

Nottingham attacks: third victim named by police

Nottingham deaths: Tributes to students named among victims

Police on Magdala Road, Nottingham where a man was found dead.

Nottingham: Two people killed in city centre attack were students

A schoolboy has been arrested after three people have sustained serious injuries at a private school in the UK

Three people hospitalised after boy, 16 arrested at private school
A schoolboy has been arrested after three people have sustained serious injuries at a private school in the UK

School kids want more digitally-based subjects on their curriculums

Boy, 14, dies at school following ‘isolated incident’

King Charles is looking for students to live and work at Sandringham

King Charles looking for students to live and work at Sandringham

International students who come to the UK will no longer be able to bring family with them except under specific circumstances in a government bid to bring migration down.

Many international students to lose right to bring family to UK

Katie and Harvey Price with Stephen Jones.

Katie Price and son Harvey visit Pinderfields as part of BBC's The One Show

With a GCSE mean grade of 8.2 and students achieving an average 0.8 of a grade higher than expected, HGS is in the top 5% of all schools nationally – apply now

Ad Feature Top ranking Heckmondwike Grammar announces open days

Students from across the Brigshaw Partnership took part in a dance day where the students taught each other dances and skills that were performed at the end of the night

Castleford students wow after ‘Dance in a Day’ workshops

Martin Lewis has issued an “urgent”reminder to those starting university or high education in England that they have just days left to apply for their living costs loans to guarantee they are paid on time. (Photo: ITV)

Martin Lewis’s urgent reminder to those starting university in 2023

Minister for Schools Nick Gibb is going to look into Year 6 SATs following concerns the reading exam was too difficult

Year 6 SATs exams to be looked into by schools minister

Students are gearing up for GCSE exams

Quiz: Can you answer these GCSE maths questions

Long Boi has been pronounced dead after having been missing from University of York campus since mid-March.

Internet star and exceptionally tall duck Long Boi presumed dead

A teenage boy has been arrested after a school shooting in Belgrade

Boy (14) shoots dead 8 children in Belgrade school

Waterloo Road confirms new series - BBC release date, cast including Kym Marsh & what to expect

Waterloo Road confirms new series - BBC release date & cast

Rishi Sunak will review England’s ‘anti-maths mindset’

Rishi Sunak sets up ‘costly’ review into ‘anti-maths mindset’

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso

Dalai Lama apology for kissing boy & asking him to 'suck his tongue'

The cricketers passing the time at Dover with an impromptu match (Photo: SWNS)

Cricketers see off Dover ferry port queues with impromptu match

Outwood Academy Hemsworth year eight pupils attended the art event at Elland Road, Leeds

Pontefract pupils art thanks to Leeds Utd link-up

Pupils from Brigshaw High School in Allerton Bywater got to experience Army life with a training 'supercamp day' at the barracks in North Yorkshire.

Castleford students get a taste of Army life

Wagamama to give free ramen to students & apprentices - how to get it

The showcase theme is an interpretation of Alice in Wonderland.

Student dance production set to debut at Wakefield's Theatre Royal this month

Brigshaw High School winners on the Leeds Schools RL finals night.

Brigshaw High School rugby teams enjoy success in schools finals

The Dangerous Rise of Andrew Tate - how to watch BBC documentary about infamous celebrity

The Dangerous Rise of Andrew Tate - how to watch BBC documentary

Students in the Netherlands have built a 3D printed car that is fully electric and removes carbon dioxide from the air.

Students build fully electric car that removes carbon dioxide from air

A picket line was formed at the Red Shed as thousands of teachers walk out over pay.

Teachers join the picket line in Wakefield in dispute over pay

The open world RPG sets players in the centre of the action at Hogwarts. Photo: IGDB.

Hogwarts Legacy: Warner Bros unveils gameplay trailer and release date

Schoolchildren awaiting the arrival of a Northern service.

Get a valid train ticket or risk being fined, students told

Students are designing what they hope the new buildings at Brigshaw High School will look like after the Castleford school secured Government funding

Castleford pupils have their own designs on shape of new look school

“Less time to study, more time working and, in the end, that might have the effect that they’re not able to succeed in their course and again lead to the risk of them dropping out” Universities UK chief executive warns

University dropout numbers could rise amid cost of living crisis