DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION

A major construction company has won the contact to deck-out Highbury’s “world class” new film school ahead of its grand opening in September.

Highbury Fields School and Central Foundation Boys’ School are leading the way for Islington in the national Progress 8 performance charts.

Tech City College is set to close after a short-supply of students means it is “financially unsustainable.”

Record-breaking City of London Academy students are helping to transform the fortunes of the school, according to the executive principal at the helm.

Highbury Community Nursery has become the first childcare setting in Islington to be awarded Millie’s Mark.

Central Foundation Boys’ School has been recognised as the best performing school for progress in the borough.

Highbury Grove’s journey to academy status has been completed after the government confirmed the City of London Academies Trust is now its official sponsor.

“Catastrophic” rather than “historic” is the message from an Islington headteacher on the government’s latest school funding reforms.

The “tireless” work of staff and students at City of London Academy Islington has been lauded as pupils collected their GCSE results this morning.

In three weeks time we will see the first cohort of GCSE students decipher a mix of letters and numbers in their results. Here’s our guide to the new numerical grading system and what it means for pupils.

Shoreditch police station could face the axe amid £400million cost-cutting plans for the Met.

A campaign group formed to defend schools from education cuts has hailed the impact of parents and teachers in forcing the government to better protect funding for students across Islington.

More Islington children were kicked out of school for racist abuse than anywhere else in inner London last year, a new league table of shame reveals.

Mystery surrounds controversial plans for a new secondary free school in Highbury.

All-girls Catholic secondary school Mount Carmel College in Archway is set to close and re-open as a mixed non-faith academy, it was announced today.

A school in Islington is under investigation by the Department for Education (DfE) for operating illegally.