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Protest over future of university language courses
Tuesday 25th November 2025The University of Nottingham has suspended entry for new students on modern language courses...
PM visits East of England to mark free school meal expansion
Tuesday 25th November 2025Tens of thousands of children in the region are set to be eligible for the scheme, the government says...
Pupils told to wear layers amid school heating issues
Tuesday 25th November 2025Bishop's Cleeve Primary Academy says it is applying for funding to replace its heating system...
The school with almost 100% attendance - and how they did it
Tuesday 25th November 2025Attendance rates remain significantly lower than in 2019, but one school is bucking the trend...
Dozens of US universities at risk of funding cuts over support for DEI
Tuesday 25th November 2025State department proposes excluding 38 institutions from Diplomacy Lab partnership including Harvard and YaleMore than three dozen universities including Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Duke have their participation in a federal research partnership on the chopping block after the state department proposed to suspend them over their diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practices...
Starmer says sorry for leading pupils in 6-7 dance
Tuesday 25th November 2025The prime minister performed a version of the viral dance with primary school children, before being told it was not allowed...
‘A fire, a dog, and the starry sky’: the teens overcoming phone-addiction through Arctic pursuits
Tuesday 25th November 2025A new documentary from the makers of Jesus Camp follows the students enrolled at one of Norway’s 85 ‘folk high schools’...
Scottish school cancels Christmas play after ‘racist and abusive’ messages
Tuesday 25th November 2025Show at Cauldeen primary school in Inverness had included a scene explaining hardship faced by Syrian refugeesA primary school in Scotland has cancelled its Christmas show after receiving “racist and abusive” messages because it featured sympathy towards Syrian refugees...
The full list of US universities at risk of funding cuts over support for DEI
Tuesday 25th November 2025State department proposes excluding 38 institutions from Diplomacy Lab partnership including Harvard and YaleMore than three dozen universities including Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Duke have their participation in a federal research partnership on the chopping block after the state department proposed to suspend them over their diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practices...
Fifty higher education providers at risk of exiting market in England, MPs told
Tuesday 25th November 2025Regulator says 24 are at more immediate risk and may have to stop degree courses within next 12 monthsFifty higher education providers in England are at risk of exiting the market within the next two to three years, MPs on the House of Commons education committee have been told as part of their inquiry into university funding and the threat of insolvency...
The full list of US universities at risk of losing state department funding over DEI support
Tuesday 25th November 2025State department proposes excluding 38 institutions from Diplomacy Lab partnership including Harvard and YaleMore than three dozen universities including Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Duke have their participation in a federal research partnership on the chopping block after the state department proposed to suspend them over their diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practices...
University students in England get two-thirds of funding of a decade ago, analysis finds
Monday 24th November 2025University leaders says planned levy on international student fees will leave many institutions even worse offUniversity students in England get just two-thirds of the funding they would have received a decade ago, after inflation and government cuts have reduced the resources available for teaching, according to vice-chancellors...
How can councils tackle the SEND funding gap?
Monday 24th November 2025A local authority is expanding a programme to help SEND children to be taught in state schools...
UK politics: Risk of Maccabi Tel Aviv facing antisemitic attacks not ‘predominant’ reason for match ban, police tell MPs – as it happened
Monday 24th November 2025West Midlands police’s assistant chief constable says threat of violence by Maccabi fans was more important considerationBadenoch says the government should be cutting regulation...
With a million young people locked out of work, the UK’s hidden jobs crisis is only growing | John Harris
Sunday 23rd November 2025Held back by Covid and then phased out by AI, Britain’s so-called Neets are desperately seeking a secure future...
Labor advances universal childcare plan with new laws to allow collection of data from private operators
Sunday 23rd November 2025Exclusive: Jason Clare says new powers will ensure information is ‘accurate, comprehensive and representative’ to help government deliver ‘evidence-based reforms’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor is quietly advancing plans for universal childcare in Australia, with new laws to require private operators to hand over sensitive commercial data needed to design a new national system...
The University of Virginia and Cornell deals with Trump set a dangerous precedent | Serena Mayeri and Amanda Shanor
Sunday 23rd November 2025The bespoke agreements are full of peril for the universities, allowing the federal government to quietly exert controlIn October, President Trump proposed a compact for higher education, a federal takeover of state and private institutions thinly disguised as an offer of preferential funding consideration...
School replaces fines with awareness courses
Sunday 23rd November 2025A head teacher in Camden decides to stop fining parents and instead ask them to attend courses...
‘Who’s screenshotting our messages?’: how a WhatsApp saga spiralled into two parents’ wrongful arrest
Saturday 22nd November 2025When Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine posted complaints about their local primary school, they never expected six uniformed police officers to turn up at their doorBefore it catapulted a small school community in London’s commuter belt into the centre of a global news story, the year-four class WhatsApp group at Cowley Hill school in Borehamwood was unremarkable – a place of snide comments, reminders about non-uniform day and flustered messages about being late for the school run...
Greek secondary school teachers to be trained in using AI in classroom
Saturday 22nd November 2025Some teachers and pupils voice concerns about pilot programme after government’s agreement with OpenAI Secondary school teachers in Greece are set to go through an intensive course in using artificial intelligence tools as the country assumes a frontline role in incorporating AI into its education system...
After baby's choking death, how safe are our nurseries?
Saturday 22nd November 2025Parents of Oliver Steeper, who died in 2021 after choking at nursery, are campaigning for change...
Special needs school pupils at home due to mouldy classrooms
Saturday 22nd November 2025More than 30 pupils at Sandelford Special School in Coleraine are facing remote learning due to health and safety issues...
Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Friday 21st November 2025Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the countryAt first sight, few suspected that Francisco Franco might become a strongman capable of imposing a brutal dictatorship across four decades...
School repairs left unfinished as firm behind huge PFI contract goes into liquidation
Friday 21st November 2025The news heightens concerns that 88 schools in Stoke-on-Trent could be left with unfinished work...
Children no longer housed in B&Bs, says council
Friday 21st November 2025B&Bs and hotels represent the worst kind of emergency accommodation, a housing officer says...
Universities blame ‘societal shift’ for axing foreign language degrees
Friday 21st November 2025Numbers taking languages at A-level and beyond has been falling for decades, although Duolingo says young people are using its app more than their elders Universities are blaming a “societal shift” for the axing of dozens of foreign language degrees and even entire departments, citing a lack of demand among students – but can years of study be easily replaced by AI or online translation tools?Not so, according to Michael Lynas, the UK country director for the Duolingo language app, who argues there is no good substitute for the hard graft of learning a language as a way of seeing another country’s culture from the inside...
Inside the dawn patrols where San Diego teachers track ICE: ‘We have to resist’
Thursday 20th November 2025With students terrified and arrests rising, educators turn activists – scanning streets, sharing alerts and defending the right to feel safeThree teachers drove through a quiet neighborhood in southern San Diego, the sun not yet fully up over the horizon...
‘AI is scary territory’: art teachers – one 64, one 29 – on cuts, creativity and life in a career that’s under threat
Thursday 20th November 2025There are 27% fewer art teachers in England today than there were in 2011, and the proportion of students taking arts subjects has plummeted...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Thursday 20th November 2025Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accentStudents at the University of Staffordshire have said they feel “robbed of knowledge and enjoyment” after a course they hoped would launch their digital careers turned out to be taught in large part by AI...
Teaching staff to strike over use of 'virtual teacher'
Thursday 20th November 2025A Lancashire school says some top sets are taught this way due to a shortage of specialist teachers...
Almost one million young people still not in work or education, figures show
Thursday 20th November 2025Whilst the figure has dropped slightly, it still equates to one-in-eight young people in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics...
What does Neet stand for and how many are there in the UK?
Thursday 20th November 2025Ministers want to tackle the high number of young people not in education, employment or training...
Our son's about to turn three - finding new childcare has left us at our wits' end
Wednesday 19th November 2025The number of childminders in England is falling - with one charity warning they could all be gone by 2033...
Inside the dawn patrols where San Diego teachers track ICE: ‘We have to resist’
Wednesday 19th November 2025With students terrified and arrests rising, educators turn activists – scanning streets, sharing alerts and defending the right to feel safeThree teachers drove through a quiet neighborhood in southern San Diego, the sun not yet fully up over the horizon...
Supreme Court rules Christian-focused RE taught in NI schools is unlawful
Wednesday 19th November 2025The Christian religious education taught in schools in Northern Ireland is unlawful, the UK Supreme Court has ruled...
Staff wellbeing 'crisis' forcing teachers out of schools, charity says
Tuesday 18th November 2025A poll of teachers around the UK suggests they have a poorer wellbeing than the general population...
University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees
Tuesday 18th November 2025Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamedNottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others...
Pupil, 18, dies at private school
Tuesday 18th November 2025Police say the death of the pupil on Monday is not being treated as suspicious...
Teachers to strike over bad behaviour in school
Monday 17th November 2025Unions say school managers are failing to deal with persistent "disruptive behaviour"...
Police admit WhatApp arrest error with £20k payout
Monday 17th November 2025A couple unlawfully arrested over complaints about their child's school say police have paid them damages...
Police admit WhatsApp arrest error with £20k payout
Monday 17th November 2025A couple unlawfully arrested over complaints about their child's school say police have paid them damages...
School bans singing of KPop Demon Hunters songs
Monday 17th November 2025The head teacher tells parents references to demons can feel "deeply uncomfortable" to Christians...
Police paid out £20k after our WhatsApp arrest, parents say
Sunday 16th November 2025A couple arrested after making complaints about their daughter's school say police have paid them damages...
Judge bars Trump administration from cutting funding to University of California
Saturday 15th November 2025White House had demanded $1.2bn from UC to restore funding after saying it allowed antisemitism on campusThe Trump administration cannot fine the University of California or summarily cut the school system’s federal funding over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimination, a federal judge ruled late on Friday in a sharply worded decision...
Councils warn of 'total collapse' in special needs system
Friday 14th November 2025The government is facing political pressure as it tries to reform the "broken" system of support for children with special educational needs...
‘Reframes history’: fears Māori knowledge diluted in plan to revise New Zealand curriculum
Friday 14th November 2025Minister rejects claims Māori history is being sidelined in rewrite which includes cutting some references to the Treaty of WaitangiAs cows grazed sleepily in a nearby paddock, then-14-year-old Leah Bell watched as a local Māori elder cried...
School librarian of the year emotional after win
Friday 14th November 2025Julie Broadbent is praised for her "unique ability to connect with pupils"...
Special needs services in England face ‘total collapse’ from increasing demand
Friday 14th November 2025Councils say 59 authorities could go bankrupt by March 2028 without urgent structural reformSpecial educational needs services in England face “total collapse”, with councils on course to have run up debts of £18bn by the end of the decade as a result of increasing numbers of children requiring extra teaching support in schools...
Pupils to move out as school ceilings are replaced
Friday 14th November 2025A temporary classroom site is being created nearby to allow Denbigh primary to close for six months...
Criminal inquiry into special needs teaching firm
Friday 14th November 2025Ofsted is investigating whether Remedicare Education failed to register as a school...
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