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Sharp fall in number of children entering reception classes in London
Thursday 16th April 2026Capital’s schools hardest hit in England and Wales by rising housing costs and falling birthrate, with further falls predicted in coming yearsSchools in London continue to be hardest hit by housing costs and the falling birthrate...
The city where primary school places come with a toilet-training guide
Thursday 16th April 2026Teachers say more children are starting school without skills like basic communication and potty training...
Back to books - Sweden's schools cutting back on digital learning
Wednesday 15th April 2026Swedish classrooms swap laptops for books, pens and paper, raising concerns from the tech sector...
The city where primary school places come with a toilet-training guide
Wednesday 15th April 2026Teachers say more children are starting school without skills like basic communication and potty training...
UK parents: have you considered switching your children from school dinners to packed lunches?
Wednesday 15th April 2026We would like to hear parents’ views on their children’s school mealsThe government is to announce an overhaul to school food standards in England that will lead to dishes such as fish and chips and steamed sponges being banned...
English councils need to hire 1,400 more educational psychologists, says report
Wednesday 15th April 2026Rising demand from children with special needs means the £140m required could come from government grantsCouncils in England need to hire 1,400 more educational psychologists at a cost of £140m to meet demand from children with special needs such as autism, according to a new report...
Sri Lankan student could be deported from UK after one-day student fee delay
Wednesday 15th April 2026Coventry University reported Navodya De Silva, 25, to Home Office after £8,000 arrived late, causing termination of visaA Sri Lankan university student says her life has been ruined because a one-day delay in paying her tuition fees led to her being thrown off her degree course and put at risk of deportation...
'Children with maths dyslexia are set up to fail'
Wednesday 15th April 2026Often referred to as the "dyslexia of numbers", dyscalculia is thought to affect one in 20 people...
‘An incalculable loss’: Hampshire College to close doors after fall semester
Tuesday 14th April 2026Massachusetts liberal arts college laments ‘heartbreaking reality’ and says financial pressures to blameA Massachusetts liberal arts college is set to close permanently due to low enrollment and financial problems...
Why one school has banned phones for some pupils - but not others
Tuesday 14th April 2026Schools across Wales say phone bans improve behaviour but can mean conflict with pupils and parents...
School gets £4,500 for lockable mobile phone cases
Tuesday 14th April 2026The money will part-fund signal-blocking pouches for about 900 pupils aged 11 to 16...
Surrounded by windfarms but out of work: the reality of the green jobs boom on England’s east coast
Tuesday 14th April 2026The government hails the ‘green revolution’ as a solution to economic decline, but some young jobseekers say the rhetoric does not match their experienceOn paper, Jake Snell, 19, sounds like the perfect candidate for a role in the UK’s burgeoning green energy sector...
Pupil sets school laptop on fire following social media trend
Monday 13th April 2026Fire service officers attended the incident in Dumbarton last week as pupils are warned about the "chromebook challenge"...
Deep-fried food banned in new plans for school dinners
Monday 13th April 2026Schools are being told to cut down on sugary desserts, and provide more vegetables and whole grains...
Fried nuggets and steamed sponges off menu in school food overhaul in England
Sunday 12th April 2026Campaigners welcome first update of school food standards in 13 years, which aims to help lower obesity ratesThe government is to announce an overhaul to school food standards in England that will lead to calorific classics such as fish and chips and steamed sponges being banned...
Deep-fried food banned in new plans for school dinners
Sunday 12th April 2026Schools are being told to cut down on sugary desserts, and provide more vegetables and whole grains...
The parents using play to stop children getting 'trapped' by screens
Friday 10th April 2026Researchers say more speech and interaction around children can aid the development of young brains...
22,000 students told to pay back 'mis-sold' maintenance loans
Thursday 9th April 2026Those affected have been told their courses were never eligible for maintenance or childcare loans Read full story...
Weekend students at 15 universities in England told to return loans and grants
Thursday 9th April 2026Student Finance England tells about 22,000 students their universities wrongly told them they were eligibleMore than 20,000 university students in England who received government maintenance loans and grants worth thousands of pounds have been told they will have to pay them back because their universities wrongly told them they were eligible for the money...
‘Masquerading as a university’: inside the brazen rightwing plan to conquer American schools
Wednesday 8th April 2026As teachers eagerly adopt its free lesson plans and the White House boosts its videos, PragerU is intent on one goal: attracting young people to conservatismIn the fall of 2013, a silver-haired conservative radio host named Dennis Prager flew to Texas to woo a pair of rightwing billionaires...
Charity cleared after claims it forced pupils to send Valentine’s Day cards to asylum seekers
Tuesday 7th April 2026Watchdog finds complaints against City of Sanctuary UK were ‘misleading and false’ after online attacks over its migrant welcome projectA refugee charity subjected to vicious social media attacks over a migrant welcome project in schools has been cleared after watchdogs found allegations it encouraged pupils to send Valentine’s Day cards to asylum seekers were misleading and false...
Schools in knife crime hotspots to get specialist training
Tuesday 7th April 2026A new partnership will provide training for school leaders about knife-crime risk, the government says...
Pupils back to school in holidays to deal with fallout from cyber attack
Tuesday 7th April 2026The Education Authority says as of Tuesday morning about 80% of post-primary schools are back online...
Want to know capitalism’s endgame? Just look at private equity – it has captured our everyday lives | Hettie O'Brien
Tuesday 7th April 2026These companies now own everything from nurseries to care homes, squeezing vital services for profit while we foot the billIt was the free croissants that gave it away...
‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK
Tuesday 7th April 2026Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debtWhen Sam started looking into studying abroad, it didn’t take long for his phone to start ringing...
Ban for teacher who told pupils about drunken night
Monday 6th April 2026Natasha Blackmore, 36, met students outside of school and told them of relationships and drunken nights...
Former pupil restrained at school has damages cut
Monday 6th April 2026The former pupil was awarded £18,900 in 2024 but that was reduced after an appeal by the school...
Hyper-targeted scheme to help at-risk schools in England tackle knife crime
Monday 6th April 2026Home Office will use mapping technology and crime data to identify up to 250 schools in areas of greatest riskSchools across England are to receive dedicated support to prevent knife crime incidents in a hyper-targeted Home Office programme that uses mapping technology to identify areas of risk down to the level of specific groups of streets...
The Guardian view on Cambridge’s £190m gift: billionaires won’t fix universities’ problems | Editorial
Monday 6th April 2026Philanthropy increases the gap dividing highly selective, elite higher education from the rest...
Teachers' union warns of 'masculinity crisis brewing' in schools
Saturday 4th April 2026NASWUT's leader said there is a "ticking time bomb" if male pupils cannot be helped with misogyny...
University of Washington professor fired from director job after sending email criticizing Iran war
Friday 3rd April 2026Aria Fani of University of Washington’s Middle East Center is latest critic of Israel to lose position at US universitySign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxA University of Washington professor was removed as head of the school’s Middle East Center after reportedly using newsletters from the center to criticize the US and Israel’s war on Iran and describe Zionism as “cancerous”...
A ‘masculinity crisis’ is brewing in UK schools, union says
Friday 3rd April 2026Misogynistic abuse of female staff is increasing, leaving teachers feeling ‘traumatised’ and ‘humiliated’Teachers’ leaders have said a “masculinity crisis” is fermenting in schools across the UK, with misogynistic abuse of female staff on the increase, leaving victims “traumatised”, “demeaned” and “humiliated”...
Harvard faculty to vote on proposal to limit number of A grades in each course
Friday 3rd April 2026Effort to curb grade inflation, by limiting top marks to 20% of students in a course, is opposed by most studentsSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxHarvard’s faculty is set to vote next week on a faculty committee proposal to cap the number of A grades per course in an effort to curb grade inflation...
Labour is letting down Britain’s children, says National Education Union leader
Thursday 2nd April 2026Daniel Kebede tells his members that detail in new policies ‘just does not deliver’ and schools are ‘running on empty’The leader of the UK’s biggest education union has torn into the government’s record on schools, accusing Labour of letting down the nation’s children and failing to deliver on its promises for education...
Teachers made ill by rats and hit by toaster receive share of £15m payout
Thursday 2nd April 2026Details about compensation for personal injury awarded to UK school staff revealed by NASUWTA teacher who became ill from a rat infestation and another who was injured after a pupil threw a toaster and chair are among UK school staff who received a share of £15m paid out in compensation...
Chris Rokos: the camera-shy billionaire behind the biggest UK university donation in modern times
Thursday 2nd April 2026The 55-year-old is one of the most successful hedge fund managers of his generationWhen Chris Rokos decided to donate a record £190m to the University of Cambridge to set up a “school of government” this week, it became the latest mega project carried out in the hedge fund billionaire’s name...
Pupils in England are losing their thinking skills because of AI, survey suggests
Thursday 2nd April 2026Two-thirds of secondary school teachers report a decline in core abilities such as writing and problem-solvingPupils using artificial intelligence are losing their capacity for critical thinking, according to a survey of secondary school teachers in England...
Special needs teacher 'threw stones at pupils'
Wednesday 1st April 2026Thomas Hayward and Alison Simmons worked at the Build-a-Future Independent School in Boston...
Teachers vow to 'fight censorship' after school book row
Wednesday 1st April 2026The UK's largest education union says librarians have reported "internal and external censorship"...
The Guardian view on Welsh language learning: cultural shifts can deliver a bright future for Cymraeg | Editorial
Tuesday 31st March 2026As Plaid Cymru leads in polls ahead of Senedd elections in May, grassroots enthusiasm for one of its historic causes is growingIn Putting Wales First, a recently translated history of Plaid Cymru’s political ideas, Prof Richard Wyn Jones references a 1940s newspaper editorial satirising the party’s then preoccupations...
Almost half of primary teachers in England see pupils with eating disorders, survey finds
Tuesday 31st March 2026Poll of 10,000 teachers also finds ‘overwhelming’ exam anxiety and rising absenteeism linked to poor mental healthAlmost half of primary school teachers are seeing pupils with eating disorders “at least occasionally”, rising to four in five at secondary level, according to a survey by the UK’s largest education union...
Sad faces all round as Bolivia’s clowns protest over decree threatening their livelihoods
Tuesday 31st March 2026Clowns in Bolivia are upset by mandate that stops schools hosting events from which they earn a livingDozens of clowns have marched through the streets of Bolivia’s capital to protest against a government decree that limits extracurricular activities in schools, threatening their livelihoods...
Meet the pupils teaching speeders a lesson in Kids Court
Monday 30th March 2026Those caught speeding on a stretch of road outside a rural school are being taught some lessons by the pupils...
New school will mean 15 hours travelling, say mums
Monday 30th March 2026A parent pleads for children to be seen as "more than just a number on a spreadsheet"...
Schools do not have enough staff to make SEND reforms work, union warns
Sunday 29th March 2026The National Education Union says schools need more funding to be able to make all classrooms inclusive...
‘A fire that’s burning again’: Welsh language resurges thanks to adult learners
Sunday 29th March 2026The number of people on Dysgu Cymraeg courses has risen by 61% since 2017, as people in Wales rediscover the ‘poetry’ of the languageElinor Staniforth from Cardiff hated Welsh lessons at her English-medium school – after her GCSEs, she said, she “forgot all about it”...
Lack of specialist staff hinders support for Send children, teacher survey finds
Sunday 29th March 2026National Education Union poll finds 89% feel class sizes in England are too big to be ‘properly inclusive’Oversized classes and inadequate staffing levels are hindering teachers’ capacity to support children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send), according to a large survey of state school teachers in England...
Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered
Saturday 28th March 2026University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years agoPlant specimens and teaching materials that inspired Charles Darwin and qualified him to work as a naturalist on HMS Beagle have been unearthed from an archive in Cambridge and will be used for the first time to teach contemporary students about botany...
School dinners in England dominated by grab-and-go foods such as pizza and sausage rolls
Friday 27th March 2026Study backed by Jamie Oliver finds pupils are foregoing sit-down meals for often less healthy, convenient optionsPupils in England are routinely eating pizza slices, sausage rolls and paninis for lunch as school canteens become dominated by a “grab-and-go” culture of unhealthy food...
Schools in England must be compelled to offer pupils healthy food, not junk
Friday 27th March 2026School dinners have suffered at the hands of politics and economics for almost 50 yearsAlmost a generation has passed since Jamie Oliver’s four-part Channel 4 documentary series Jamie’s School Dinners exposed the unhealthy reality of the food served to pupils at lunchtime, including – notoriously – fat-heavy, meat-light Turkey Twizzlers...
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