More people (48%) would prefer their child to get a vocational qualification after leaving school instead of attending university (37%) or starting work (8%), a think-tank has found.

Rishi Sunak's stamp duty holiday is risky and expensive. Here are three housing measures he could have announced instead.

Labour must build “a new generation of New Towns” if it gets into government, according to one of its most prominent parliamentary candidates.

Just £250 million - or 2.7% – of the extra £9bn funding which the government has set aside for early years provision during this Parliament will reach the most disadvantaged children, according to a new report by senior Labour MP Lucy Powell, and published today by the Social Market Foundation think tank.

For many, the closure of schools could mean the end of development, the end of learning and a very difficult home situation.