Schools are giving a higher priority to children from disadvantaged backgrounds who pass the 11-plus test in a bid to boost social mobility.

Burgess Hill Girls School in West Sussex has drawn up a list of 50 items for girls younger than five to help them ‘off iPads and up trees’. Authorities hope to nip the epidemic of screen-time in the bud.

Toby Belfield, 47, the principal of £37,500-a-year Ruthin School in Denbighshire, North Wales, sent messages to 15-year-old Cat Hughes telling her she was ‘naughty’ and ‘cute’.

Headteacher Toby Belfield, 47, at Ruthin School in Denbighshire, north Wales, complimented a student’s red dress, said he would visit pupils at University, and asked about their sex lives.

Victoria Edwards is battling Oxfordshire County Council over its ‘Trans Inclusion Toolkit’, claiming it puts students’ safety in danger.

More than 30,000 pupils would be forced into the state sector by Labour plans to impose VAT on private school fees, the party admitted yesterday.

Harris Academy Orpington in south London – spent £10,000 so almost an entire year group could sit an English as a Second Language International GCSE even though 95 per cent spoke English.

The teacher, of Newberries Primary School in Hertfordshire, was fired on Friday. She allegedly said: ‘You better finish off your work quick, or I’ll ship you all off to the gas chambers.’

The University of Cambridge hopes to admit 69.1 per cent of state educated pupils by 2024/25 and a professor says the institution is ‘being forced to engage in social engineering’.

Eight of 15 pupils beginning reception at Woodham Walter Primary School are the result of multiple births. Including triplets Kuzey, Koray, Ayaz Cericki, who have starred in BBC’s Silent Witness.