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The Guardian view on care leavers: responsibility for looked-after children does not end at 18 | Editorial
Friday 2nd January 2026Free prescriptions and eye tests ought to help these young adults stay healthy...
Days left to choose preferred primary school
Friday 2nd January 2026The date by which people need to apply is 15 January - late applications can be less successful...
Impact over income: a striking number of gen Zers are becoming teachers
Friday 2nd January 2026Despite longstanding concerns over pay and conditions, more young graduates are entering the classroomJoseph Curatolo was studying architecture four years ago when he took a summer job, teaching music to middle school students...
‘I wasn’t allowed to study, but I will make sure no girl in this village hears those same words’
Friday 2nd January 2026Health worker Naushaba Roonjho was ostracised by her family in Pakistan for wanting to work but now she is campaigning for political officeWhen Naushaba Roonjho became the first girl anyone in her district knew to have passed Pakistan’s national secondary school exam, the news was not celebrated...
School permanently closed over structural damage
Tuesday 30th December 2025Pupils will attend different schools for several weeks while a new site is prepared, leaders say...
Online school and junior tennis: freedom, focus – and a quiet cost
Tuesday 30th December 2025Elite junior tennis players are flocking to online schools...
School pupils meet-ups 'a lifeline' for retirement housing residents
Monday 29th December 2025A scheme that started four years ago brings primary school pupils together with elderly residents living nearby...
The words from my dad that saved me as a new parent
Monday 29th December 2025Professor Green and Ryan Libbey open up about how fatherhood affected them and how you can protect your mental health...
The Guardian view on the National Year of Reading 2026: time to start a healthy habit for life | Editorial
Monday 29th December 2025A Children’s Booker prize, library cards for newborns and a major campaign – initiatives to encourage a love of books in children are a cause for celebrationReading to children from a young age leads to greater happiness, educational success, empathy and social mobility – no wonder the government wants to encourage everyone to do it more...
ChatGPT, cooking and Christopher Walken: how parents got their kids to love reading in 2025
Monday 29th December 2025Fewer children are reading for fun - but parents are trying everything from AI to dramatic voices to keep them engagedIt’s been a tough year for our brains...
School closures have rocked this LA-area district – are they destroying it, or saving it?
Sunday 28th December 2025As the US faces challenges to public school funding, activists warn that more people should pay attention to what’s happened in Inglewood, CaliforniaInglewood, California – a few miles east of Los Angeles international airport – is known as the city of champions...
'All children are still into Roald Dahl'
Saturday 27th December 2025The Guinness Book of Records is a favourite with boys, but one author always tops the list...
Brown shooting suspect: gruelling academic climate may have taken mental toll, say ex-classmates
Friday 26th December 2025Cláudio Valente and one of victims, Nuno FG Loureiro, both studied at notoriously challenging Técnico in LisbonAs investigators in Massachusetts work to piece together a motive for the murders of two Brown University students and an MIT physics professor, former classmates of the suspected gunman and one of the victims have been asking if the roots of the tragedy lie in their shared experience at a top university in Portugal...
‘Keeps your mind alert’: older Swedes reap the benefits of learning for pleasure
Friday 26th December 2025Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbersRecord numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions...
Biggest school in Highlands to become a 'no-phone zone'
Tuesday 23rd December 2025Inverness Royal Academy said in a message to pupils and parents the new rule would start in February...
New York school board investigates wooden ‘timeout’ box allegations
Monday 22nd December 2025Governor calls accusations that students with disabilities may have been confined in boxes ‘highly disturbing’A school district board in upstate New York is investigating school officials amid accusations that the district may have confined elementary school students inside wooden “timeout” boxes...
Head serves school dinners amid 'catering failings'
Monday 22nd December 2025Malmesbury School's Christmas dinner was under threat due to staffing issues, according to its head...
Why do we stop singing when we reach secondary school?
Monday 22nd December 2025New data suggests singing is much more common in primary and private schools than in state secondaries...
Singing at school shouldn't just be for Christmas, teachers say
Monday 22nd December 2025New data suggests singing is much more common in primary and private schools than in state secondaries...
Regulator ‘asleep at the wheel’ over University of Greater Manchester investigation, MP says
Monday 22nd December 2025Office for Students accused of ‘glacial’ response to allegations of fraud, bullying and mismanagementEngland’s universities regulator has been attacked for being “asleep at the wheel” over its delays in investigating suspected fraud, bullying and mismanagement at the University of Greater Manchester...
Thrillers should be on UK school curriculum to boost reading, says Lee Child
Friday 19th December 2025Bestselling author says focus on ‘masterpieces’ puts children off as he promotes prison literacy schemeToo much of the literature taught in UK schools is putting children off reading and thrillers should become part of the curriculum, one of the world’s biggest selling authors has argued...
Ben Jennings on plans to tackle misogyny in English schools – cartoon
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Deepfakes and pornography: the plan to tackle toxic masculinity – The Latest
Thursday 18th December 2025The UK government’s long-awaited strategy to tackle violence against women and girls has been published today...
Deepfakes and porn: the plan to tackle toxic masculinity in schools | The Latest
Thursday 18th December 2025The government has announced a multimillion-pound investment to tackle misogyny in England’s schools, but is it enough? As part of the government’s flagship strategy, teachers will be able to send children as young as 11 on behavioural courses if they are witnessing disturbing or worrying behaviour...
Boys to learn difference between porn and real life to tackle misogyny in England’s schools
Thursday 18th December 2025Teachers to be given extra training as Keir Starmer warns ‘toxic ideas are taking hold early and going unchallenged’David Lammy: I want my sons to know masculinity can be kind – and my daughter to live without fearChildren as young as 11 who demonstrate misogynistic behaviour will be taught the difference between pornography and real relationships, as part of a multimillion-pound investment to tackle misogyny in England’s schools, the Guardian understands...
Teachers in England face growing misogyny and need help dealing with sexual aggression, says Phillips
Thursday 18th December 2025Comments from safeguarding minister come as violence against women and girls strategy due to launchSchools are reporting growing misogyny from pupils towards teachers and a lack of avenues to seek help about sexually aggressive behaviour, the safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, has said...
Boys to be sent on courses to tackle misogyny in schools
Thursday 18th December 2025The measure is part of the government's strategy to tackle violence against women and girls which will be unveiled on Thursday...
Ho ho no! Four ways to stop kids' Christmas meltdowns
Wednesday 17th December 2025Four ways to keep the magic without the meltdowns and create stress-free festive fun for children...
Teachers will be given extra training to tackle misogyny in schools
Wednesday 17th December 2025Keir Starmer, announcing new strategy, says ‘toxic ideas are taking hold early and going unchallenged’ Children as young as 11 who demonstrate misogynistic behaviour will be taught the difference between pornography and real relationships, as part of a multimillion-pound investment to tackle misogyny in England’s schools, the Guardian understands...
How will Erasmus work for the UK and who can take part?
Wednesday 17th December 2025The UK’s membership explained as it prepares to rejoin the EU education and training programme it left after BrexitThe UK is to rejoin Erasmus, the European Union’s education and training scheme, five years after the country pulled out following Brexit...
A Harvard scholar’s ouster exposes a crisis of institutional integrity | Eric Reinhart
Wednesday 17th December 2025The dismissal of a a renowned health leader who refused to ignore Palestine highlights false claims of universality in human rights, global health and academiaLast Tuesday afternoon, Dean Andrea Baccarelli at the Harvard School of Public Health sent out a brief message announcing that one of the country’s most experienced and accomplished public health leaders, Dr Mary T Bassett, would “step down” as director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights...
EU’s Erasmus scheme to reopen to UK students for first time since Brexit at cost of £570m
Wednesday 17th December 2025Deal agreed to rejoin exchange programme in 2027, fulfilling Labour election manifesto pledgeEurope live – latest updatesYoung people across the UK will be able to study or gain work experience through the EU’s Erasmus scheme for the first time since Brexit, after the government announced an agreement to rejoin at a cost of £570m...
‘A shifting system’: concerns over students’ civil rights rise as DoJ changes priorities
Tuesday 16th December 2025Under Trump, the department that once rooted out race- and disability-based discrimination has begun opening investigations over antisemitism and transgender policiesThe 10-year-old was dragged down a school hallway by two school staffers...
University students facing course 'cold spots' as enrolments fall
Tuesday 16th December 2025New data analysis suggests courses like artificial intelligence are surging in popularity as languages fall...
Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment, BBC finds
Tuesday 16th December 2025Huge amounts appear to have been raised for seriously ill children who never received the money...
Our young people aren’t shirkers or snowflakes - they were failed by government policy. That changes now | Pat McFadden
Tuesday 16th December 2025The number of ‘neets’ is skyrocketing in Britain, another Tory failure...
School staff balloted on strike action after fire concerns
Monday 15th December 2025A fire safety report found there was a substantial risk to life and fire exits were not easily openable...
Secondary school reopens following flu outbreak
Monday 15th December 2025Pupils and teachers are back onsite but the situation is being monitored "minute by minute"...
Exam board Pearson fined £2m for ‘serious’ breaches in standards
Monday 15th December 2025Ofqual issues fines over English proficiency test that some candidates sat at home, A-level Chinese and GCSE EnglishOne of the world’s biggest providers of educational services has been fined more than £2m for a range of serious breaches related to examination standards that could have affected tens of thousands of students...
Pens at the ready! A gen-Z trainee takes on the Guardian’s ‘scribbler-in-chief’
Sunday 14th December 2025As the exam regulator consults about introducing onscreen exams amid complaints of hand fatigue, a young aspiring journalist goes head-to-head with a self-professed expertThis week it was reported that students could soon be sitting their end-of-year exams on laptops after pupils complained of hand fatigue, saying their muscles “are not strong enough”...
Councils to get £3bn for thousands more school spaces for Send pupils
Friday 12th December 2025The government is promising 50,000 more places for children with special educational needs in schools in England...
AI has entered the classroom - but is it the solution for overworked teachers?
Thursday 11th December 2025From deepfake teachers to remote maths lessons - how are schools using tech and AI in the classroom?Read full story...
Councils to get £3bn for thousands more school spaces for Send pupils
Thursday 11th December 2025The government is promising 50,000 more places for children with special educational needs in schools in England...
Labour to create up to 60,000 spaces for children with Send in English schools
Thursday 11th December 2025Bridget Phillipson says £3bn scheme focussed on local state schools will ‘transform lives’, after rise in parent appealsThe government is to invest £3bn in creating bespoke places within local state schools for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (Send), a crucial part of its efforts to grapple with England’s rising numbers of children facing social and mental health problems...
Some GCSEs and A-levels in England could be taken on laptops by 2030, Ofqual says
Thursday 11th December 2025Qualifications watchdog launches consultation amid complaints from pupils about writing fatigue in examsStudents could be sitting some of their GCSEs and A-levels on a laptop by the end of the decade, according to England’s qualifications watchdog...
How can abuse openly take place in a nursery? This is the question we must urgently reckon with | Munira Wilson
Thursday 11th December 2025No parent should worry about their child’s safety while they work...
Tory governments spent £325m on free schools that failed or disappeared
Wednesday 10th December 2025More than £10bn was committed to building new schools between 2014-15 and 2023-24, compared with £6...
Interviewing future medical students gave me that rare thing: hope for the NHS | Devi Sridhar
Wednesday 10th December 2025They face long hours, mediocre pay and, at worst, no job, but their optimism is astonishing – let’s support them betterProf Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of EdinburghWhen I mentioned to colleagues in the NHS that I was helping with admissions interviews for medical students, several responded with the same wry smile and weary shrug: “Do they know what they’re getting into?” Anyone working with the health service over the past few decades has seen the job conditions get tougher, salaries stagnate and idealism erode within a crumbling system...
A welcome pit stop: the US university using parking lots to help unhoused students
Tuesday 9th December 2025Long Beach City college’s Safe Parking Program provides a protected space for students who are homeless to live in their carWhen Edgar Rosales Jr uses the word “home” he isn’t referring to the house he plans to buy after becoming a nurse or getting a job in public health...
London academy staff instilled ‘climate of fear’ among pupils
Tuesday 9th December 2025Report finds children at Mossbourne Victoria Park traumatised by disciplinary measures ‘designed to humiliate’Staff at a London academy instilled a “climate of fear” among pupils, with a drive for academic success likely to have harmed vulnerable children including those with special needs, according to a damning independent investigation...
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