Ahead of the 60th birthday of Brent, Bexley, Barking, Barnet and all the boroughs that don't begin with the letter B, we look back at how modern London was born. Once the boundaries were settled, via ...

On 1 April 1965 the local government map of London was set ... The inner London Education Authority (ILEA) took responsibility for schools in the 12 inner London boroughs. The 20 outer London ...

The Department for Education (DfE) has published new ratings about the performance of secondary schools in Bexley. This data ...

Bexley scored well in schools, employment and connectivity, ranking 59th nationwide in that category. It also performed ...

The data also breaks down absence rates by school phase. In state-funded primary schools, the unauthorised absence rate in Bexley was 1.55 per cent, with 12.77 per cent of pupils persistently ...

Fifty years have come and gone since the last of many rural schools shut their doors for good. A new book, "Rural Schools of ...