One principal says for every parent who opposes homework, “there are probably three who very much insist they want it”.

“Homework in primary school has an effect of around zero”. We’ve all been there – sitting at the kitchen table, feverishly finishing our spelling while an anxious parent coaxes us along. For ...

JACQUELINE JOSSA has sparked debate by saying homework for young children should be axed. Speaking on ex-Towie sisters Sam and Billie Faiers’ podcast, The Sam & Billie Show, the actress, 29 – who is ...

President Michael D Higgins ignited a national conversation about homework when he told primary school students that he believed schoolwork should be completed in school – and that children should be ...

Homework: a word that can cause despair not just in children, but also in parents and even teachers. And for primary school children at least, it may be that schools setting homework is more trouble ...

Playing video games with children after school would be better than enforcing homework – that’s the surprising advice from an Australian education expert. Queensland-based Connor Greene said ...

A PRIMARY school kid has left parents pretty impressed by her quick-witted answer to a tricky homework question. The young Year 4 student was asked to solve a a series of maths-based problems, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homework for primary school children would be banned under new proposals from the ­Scottish Greens. The party’s manifesto for the ...