The country’s first astronaut in space Dr Helen Sherman has paid a special visit to a Kent school as part of her latest mission.

Early plans have been unveiled to build a new special needs school which has been in the works for five years.

Fencing built around a university building to bolster security has been branded “a bit brutal” in appearance.

The former principal of a Kent college has been effectively banned from education – while his deputy agrees a confidential deal with liquidators.

A local council is asking for parents and residents views on changes to an annual school test.

Exclusive: A self-styled education guru has quit as chair of governors at a Kent grammar amid claims she lied about having a PhD from Cambridge.

A college has been awarded government funding to build a new training facility teaching energy-saving skills.

Parents and residents are being asked for their thoughts on proposals to change secondary education on the Island.

A primary school head teacher has left suddenly over the half-term break.

Pupils are being taught in, among other locations, a makeshift classroom in a village hall after a fire left their main school building out of bounds.

The new owner of a natural health clinic wants to re-open it as a pre-school.

More than one in four Kent pupils were persistently absent from school in the last academic year – and parents are paying the price.

A college has unveiled its brand new £10m engineering centre which includes state-of-the-art equipment and robots which can pick cars up.

A map of Kent in 1769, claimed to be the most beautiful ever produced, is going on sale in highly limited numbers.

Inspectors have double-downgraded a nursery after they found garden machinery and medicines left within reach of babies and toddlers.

Schools across Kent have lost millions in funding because of errors made by the Department for Education (DfE), according to new claims.

The soaring cost of providing cabs to school children has resulted in the suggestion that KCC could run an in-house taxi service.

As one of the county’s most troubled schools is the latest to come under the umbrella of a college group, we look at its remarkable growth.

Students at a secondary school are expected to decamp to a two-storey Portakabin for three years following the discovery of RAAC.

A community’s response to help raise funds for a fire-ravaged school has been praised after collecting thousands of pounds for new equipment.