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Cutting aid for girls’ education isn’t just wrong – it’s economically illiterate | Larry Elliott
Wednesday 21st May 2025This slash-and-burn approach is indefensible and would have been anathema to previous Labour governmentsAsk any one of the 187 female Labour MPs whether they would have made it to the House of Commons without an education and you would probably get short shrift...
Review of student suicides in England dodged ‘real issues’, say bereaved parents
Tuesday 20th May 2025Uinversity students’ mental health and wellbeing must be ‘prioritised alongside their studies’, argue campaignersA review of student suicides in England dodged “the real issues” with universities, the parents of a student who killed herself before a class presentation have said...
Jewellery students want to save 'dying art'
Tuesday 20th May 2025The new T-level students on the Aston University course aim to bring new blood to the industry...
Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes
Tuesday 20th May 2025All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse...
Family criticises law change on paedophiles' parental rights
Tuesday 20th May 2025Those convicted of child sexual offences may not be banned from contact with their own offspring...
Fruit juice 'not fruit' in school food shakeup plan
Tuesday 20th May 2025A many shakeup plan also sees sweet treats and fried food being cut down in primary schools...
One in four pupils in England ‘disengage’ when they move to secondary, report finds
Monday 19th May 2025New study found a drop in enjoyment, trust and feelings of safety after year 7 and a largely positive primary experienceOne in four pupils in England “disengage” when they move up to secondary school, with enjoyment, trust and a sense of feeling safe declining sharply, according to a new report...
Racism forced my daughter to move primary schools, mum says
Monday 19th May 2025The number of incidents of racism or racist bullying recorded in Scotland's schools jumped by 50% last year...
'Incredible' pupils help ex-teacher after crash
Sunday 18th May 2025Staffs and students at the Coventry school are fundraising to help a former teacher after the crash...
'School lollipop people need to return before tragedy strikes'
Sunday 18th May 2025Parents of children at schools have called on a council to reinstate crossing patrols...
Should schools take a long summer break – or is it detrimental to children’s learning?
Sunday 18th May 2025The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts...
'Teachers are having scissors thrown at them - we've had enough'
Saturday 17th May 2025Staff say they are often unable to teach as large groups of students roam the school...
Oklahoma high schools to teach 2020 election conspiracy theories as fact
Saturday 17th May 2025State superintendent Ryan Walters tapped chief of Heritage Foundation, key player behind Project 2025, for curriculum As part of the latest Republican push in red states to promote ideologies sympathetic to Donald Trump, Oklahoma’s new social studies curriculum will ask high school students to identify “discrepancies” in the 2020 election results...
‘Grit’ no substitute for better mental health funding for pupils in England, say experts
Friday 16th May 2025As education secretary unveils £49m for school-based support and calls for ‘grit’, charity says many children have significant treatment needsMinisters’ efforts to promote “grit” among children are no substitute for better funded mental health support in England’s schools, according to school leaders and experts...
‘Much-needed grit’ to be fostered in England’s schoolchildren, say ministers
Friday 16th May 2025Increased mental health support for young people will give them resilience, say education and health secretariesSchoolchildren will be helped to develop “much-needed grit” for life beyond school with increased mental health support, the education and health secretaries have said...
Why was VAT added to private school fees?
Thursday 15th May 2025The government says "every single penny" raised by the policy will be spent on state schools...
More than 1,000 US students punished over speech since 2020, report finds
Thursday 15th May 2025Study paints picture of universities increasingly willing to penalize students over expression of their viewsParker Hovis was four courses away from getting his computer science degree from the University of Florida when he was arrested along with several other students at a pro-Palestine protest on campus last spring...
Private schools say fees have gone up by 22% in last year
Thursday 15th May 2025The Independent School Council says private school fees increased by 22...
Russian scientist held in Ice jail charged with smuggling frog embryos into US
Thursday 15th May 2025Kseniia Petrova, Harvard researcher arrested in February, faces deportation as lawyer calls case ‘meritless’A Harvard scientist who has been held in US immigration detention for months was charged on Wednesday with smuggling frog embryos into the United States, and likely faces deportation...
London dominates England’s social mobility league with top 20 places
Wednesday 14th May 2025Sutton Trust ‘opportunity index’ measured factors such as children on free school meals passing key GCSEsThe top 20 constituencies with the best social mobility in England are all in London, according to research from a leading education charity that underscores the stark regional divide in children’s life chances...
We told young people that degrees were their ticket to a better life. It’s become a great betrayal | Gaby Hinsliff
Tuesday 13th May 2025With the labour market declining and AI a threat to entry-level jobs, graduates have been sold a lie...
Changes to nursery space requirements in England risk overcrowding, experts say
Monday 12th May 2025Pressure to create more childcare places to meet funded expansion plans threatens to undermine qualityUK politics live – latest updatesPlans to change space requirements for nurseries in England to enable them to offer more childcare places are being considered by the government, prompting warnings about overcrowding...
Changing space requirements for nurseries in England risks overcrowding, experts say
Monday 12th May 2025Pressure to create more childcare places to meet funded expansion plans threatens to undermine qualityUK politics live – latest updatesPlans to change space requirements for nurseries in England to enable them to offer more childcare places are being considered by the government, prompting warnings about overcrowding...
‘Things could fall over’: businesses and public services on Starmer’s immigration crackdown
Monday 12th May 2025Social care, hospitality, health, universities and construction sectors raise questions over impact of planKeir Starmer’s blueprint for curbing immigration could exacerbate skills shortages in sectors that would “fall over” without immigrant labour, the prime minister has been told...
Concern lesson plans encouraged strangulation during sex
Monday 12th May 2025A council is criticised for a sex education presentation that was intended to be used in schools...
School starters can't blow their noses - teachers
Monday 12th May 2025Teachers are worried some children are not school-ready and cannot carry out basic tasks...
Adoptive fund cuts will be devastating - mother
Monday 12th May 2025Funds to help adoptive children access therapy have been cut by a total of £4,500 per child...
‘Rethink it all!’ Why is one Danish school producing nearly every cool alt-pop star?
Friday 9th May 2025Copenhagen’s Rhythmic Music Conservatory finds common ground between Ella Fitzgerald and Charli xcx – and its free-thinking alumni are thriving...
UK universities’ income falls for third consecutive year
Thursday 8th May 2025The Office for Students is warning that declining international student numbers will lead to more cuts on campusUniversities in England have experienced a fall in income for the third year in a row, according to the higher education regulator, as it warned that declining international student numbers will translate into more cuts on campuses...
English universities’ income falls for third consecutive year
Thursday 8th May 2025Office for Students says declining international student numbers will lead to more cuts on campusUniversities in England have experienced a fall in income for the third year in a row, according to the higher education regulator, as it warned that declining international student numbers would translate into more cuts on campuses...
Don’t ditch GCSE results day – as a teacher, I can tell you just how disastrous that would be | Nadeine Asbali
Thursday 8th May 2025An app could never replace the emotion of opening that envelope at your school and the support that staff can offer if things don’t go to planEvery GCSE results day, school halls buzz with the entire spectrum of human emotion...
Four in 10 universities face financial challenges
Thursday 8th May 2025A drop in international student numbers has driven the worsening financial position, a report says...
Is your school spying on your child online? | Chad Marlow
Thursday 8th May 2025Companies like Gaggle, GoGuardian, Securly, and Navigate360 spy on US children’s private texts, emails and social media posts When it premiered last month, the Amazon docuseries Spy High reminded Americans how, in 2009, Pennsylvania’s Lower Merion school district remotely activated its school-issued laptop webcams to capture 56,000 pictures of students outside of school, including in their bedrooms...
Head Start avoids Trump’s cuts, but advocates are ready to defend it: ‘There’s too much good in this’
Wednesday 7th May 2025At its most basic level, Head Start provides free childcare – but it also creates jobs and can even have generational benefitsTanya Stanton felt a sense of relief when she heard last week that the Trump administration seems to have reversed course on eliminating the Head Start early education program...
Pupils injured by power cables at private school
Wednesday 7th May 2025The boys, aged between 13 and 14, remain in a stable condition after sustaining serious burns...
What dates are GCSE exams and when is results day 2025?
Wednesday 7th May 2025Your full guide to this year's GCSE exams in England, Wales and Northern Ireland...
I won’t be taking exam leave to support my teens – just hovering, worrying and driving them mad | Zoe Williams
Wednesday 7th May 2025Exam pressures on both kids and parents are at an all-time high, but I’m glad that at least parents are more engaged these daysWhen I was doing GCSEs and my sister was doing A-levels, we were on our way to school for my physics and her maths exams when we had a huge fight at the bus stop...
‘The crux of all evil’: what happened to the first city that tried to ban smartphones for under-14s?
Wednesday 7th May 2025It’s a year since teachers in St Albans asked parents not to give younger children smartphones...
GCSE results day to change for thousands of students with new app
Tuesday 6th May 2025School leaders have welcomed the plans for digital exam grades, but said they would need "seamless" support...
Student visa crackdown will make funding crisis worse, says Universities UK
Tuesday 6th May 2025Vivienne Stern says universities face ‘critical moment’ amid reports students from abroad could be targeted for restrictionsNew proposals to crack down on student visa applications in order to reduce asylum claims will make the financial crisis facing beleaguered UK universities “considerably worse”, the government has been told...
Parents fined £1.4m for taking children out of school
Tuesday 6th May 2025More than 20,000 fines have been handed out to parents since 2022...
School promises improvements over bullying claims
Tuesday 6th May 2025A criticised academy trust says some staff will have enhanced training around autism...
Trump blocks grant funding for Harvard until it meets president’s demands
Tuesday 6th May 2025University told by education secretary Linda McMahon research grants and other aid ‘will not be provided’The US Department of Education informed Harvard University on Monday that it was ending billions of dollars in research grants and other aid unless the school accedes to a list of demands from the Trump administration that would effectively cede control of the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university to the government...
'I help fix attendance levels in schools'
Monday 5th May 2025Tom Buckmaster is working with four primary schools in Nottinghamshire to improve attendance...
‘The only thing we can’t do is hear’: the deaf pupil who beat Fife council in court
Sunday 4th May 2025Niamdh Braid, 16, demanded her right to full education – and now hopes her success will inspire more deaf children to aim highThe slogan on Niamdh Braid’s powder-blue sweatshirt puts it plainly enough: “I define my own deaf identity...
Headteachers’ union takes legal action against Ofsted over inspection changes
Saturday 3rd May 2025NAHT says changes are likely to harm school leaders’ mental health and it was not consulted adequately over the new grading systemHeadteachers are taking legal action against Ofsted, England’s schools watchdog, over fears that its new inspection regime is “even worse than before” and likely to harm the mental health of school leaders...
Greyscale and prune your algorithm: ‘digital nutritionist’ offers advice on cutting down screen time
Saturday 3rd May 2025Kaitlyn Regehr says parents worrying about their children need first to look at their own usageSwitching off the colours on your phone and spending half an hour a week pruning your algorithm can help consumers control and improve their online media diet, according to a professor turned “digital nutritionist”...
Teaching union launches legal action against Ofsted
Saturday 3rd May 2025The NAHT wants a judge to review proposed changes to the way Ofsted inspects schools in England...
Texas governor signs largest US school voucher law in win for conservatives
Saturday 3rd May 2025State becomes 16th to allow public funds to be used for private schools, which opponents say will benefit mostly wealthier childrenThe Texas governor Greg Abbott on Saturday signed a law making more than 5 million students eligible to use state funds for private schools, a watershed moment in the conservative campaign to remake public education in the US...
Teaching union launches legal action against Ofsted
Friday 2nd May 2025The NAHT wants a judge to review proposed changes to the way Ofsted inspects schools in England...
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