
Children starting secondary schools in England this week will be the first to be legally required to stay in education until they are 17.
Thousands of teenagers across the UK will receive their GCSE grades in what is expected to be another record year for results.
A budding web designer was celebrating today after achieving a C grade in his computing AS-level – at the age of ten.
There has been another increase in the A-level pass rate and the proportion of entries awarded the top A grade.
As thousands of teenagers prepare to pick up their A-level results, the Express & Star wants you to capture the big moment on camera.
More than half of Dudley borough’s secondary schools do not have enough places to meet demand from parents clamouring to get their first choice for children joining next term, it was revealed today.
The all-important A-level results are just around the corner and, whether full of cheers or tears, the Express & Star wants to see your pictures.
Two of Walsall’s colleges are to merge, creating a new centre of learning for the community.
The sale of the grounds of a doomed Black Country school has been delayed after councillors challenged the release of the land.
Supermarket giant Asda today triggered a school uniform price war as it unveiled what it claims is the cheapest uniform ever – costing just £4.
Staffordshire University is beating the prices at the pumps with a pair of electric vans.
The full shambles of the Sats exam results meltdown across the Black Country and Staffordshire can today be revealed.
Schools around the Black Country and Staffordshire will be plunged into chaos this week when thousands of classroom assistants, dinner ladies and caretakers go on strike.
A Black Country college which was heavily criticised by Government inspectors in a report just over a year ago has dramatically transformed its fortunes according to the latest review.
The University of Wolverhampton will be one of the main players on the city’s flagship i54 business park with a multi-million-pound training and technology centre, the Express & Star can reveal today.
A pledge to secure funding to rebuild or revamp outdated secondary schools in Dudley has been made by education bosses.
A masters degree course at the University of Wolverhampton has been stripped of its official recognition due to “serious concerns” about its leadership, it emerged today.
Acclaimed children’s author Allan Ahlberg paid a visit to his Black Country home town to open a conference aimed at getting more youngsters reading.
A school in the Black Country which caters for children with learning difficulties will receive a £300,000 cash boost after it gained recognition for the way pupils communicate.
Schoolchildren from across Staffordshire gathered to receive national awards in recognition of their efforts to live healthy lives.
Celebrations have been under way this week as a newly revamped Stafford school held its official reopening ceremony.
Wolverhampton is lingering near to the bottom in a league ranking the country’s best universities.
Scores of West Midland schools were given an ultimatum today to improve their GCSE results or face being closed and turned into academies.
Nearly one in five secondary schools in England are to be given a warning to improve exam results or face closure.
Nearly 80 children at schools in a Black Country borough have been handed £75 fines for dropping litter in a series of sting operations since September last year, the Express & Star can reveal.
A Black Country primary school is starting to turn the corner following a recent visit by Government inspectors which highlighted a number of concerns.
Schools Minister Jim Knight today promised the Black Country’s children new opportunities to break free from the area’s cycle of industrial decline.
Demand for private schools is at a five-year high, despite the credit crunch and successive above-inflation fee increases.