BBC Education (Important news for the UK)

Important educational news for the UK.

• How much parents could save from September's new school uniform rules

  Parents should not have to buy more than three branded items, plus a tie for secondary schools.

• Cambridge to review process for hiring senior academics after Jason Arday resignation

  Prof Priyamvada Gopal, who is part of the group, says Cambridge should not be "marking its own homework".

• All schools in England to get pupil attendance targets, government says

  The BBC understands schools will not be penalised for missing targets, but they will be monitored.

• Student loan repayment rates an 'unsustainable burden', chancellor told

  More than 120 MPs and peers have asked John Healey to carry out an "urgent review" of repayments.

• How parents and pupils took on 'cruel', 'authoritarian' schools - and won

  Discipline at an academy trust went too far - parents, pupils and former teachers tell BBC Panorama.