Working towards Arts Award Explore, the children will be encouraged by a partnership involving Tameside Cultural Services, the BBC, a forum of the borough’s music teachers and Stone Soup, a Tameside Creative Industries organisation

The Big Issue’s parent company The Big Life Group is to set up a free school in the Cheetham Hill area.

An Islamic extremist ‘brother’ is working to seize control of Manchester schools and ensure hard-line Muslim principles are taught, according to a letter in the Trojan Horse scandal.

After the stabbing of school teacher Ann Maguire earlier this week, should metal detectors and security be brought into schools?

The move was approved following a vote at a full council meeting at Bolton Town Hall on Wednesday

The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) say that Ofsted are not fit for purpose and that the body has too much power – which has a negative effect on the standard of education.

The accusations came after it was revealed there are now 25 schools under investigation over an alleged hard-line Muslim plot to force out governors and headteachers

Schools and charities come together to do their bit

Manley Park Primary School now has a rating of four

Figures show 2,397 cases of racism in the town’s schools

Worrying statistics revealed for National Road Safety Week