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Tony Adams explains why he sold £4m Cotswolds home to Liam Gallagher
Saturday 8th August 2026The Arsenal legend has moved to London with wife PoppyRead full story...
Gloucestershire beaten by Lancs in One-Day Cup
Friday 7th August 2026Somerset keep their hopes of qualifying for the latter stages of the One-Day Cup alive with a thumping victory over Surrey, thanks to a brilliant Tom Lammonby ton...
Free events for SEND children to enjoy this summer
Friday 7th August 2026A number of SEND-friendly events will go ahead in Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire...
Deprived area pupils face high obesity rates
Monday 3rd August 2026Council figures show the equivalent of 37 bus loads of children in the region start secondary school overweight...
ADHD jockey visits school to inspire students
Tuesday 28th July 2026Lilly Pinchin, from Cheltenham, took her horse Joey to meet students at a school in Patchway...
Mental health chat grows into UK-wide lifeline
Thursday 23rd July 2026Cheltenham-based Brotherhood in Arms has helped hundreds of men struggling with their mental health...
Prince George's tender one-word nickname for Prince William picked up by lip reader
Wednesday 22nd July 2026Prince George is celebrating his 13th birthday today and is just weeks away from starting secondary school at Eton College, just like his dad and uncle before himRead full story...
Esports school will use computer games in teaching
Monday 20th July 2026Gloucester Rugby Charitable Foundation is opening the school for kids who face education barriers...
"Extraordinary sight" of rare bird from Asia spotted in Gloucestershire
Monday 20th July 2026A long-tailed shrike has been spotted in Eastleach in Gloucestershire after flying off course from Asia...
I've never struck the ball like that - Overton
Thursday 16th July 2026Somerset all-rounder Craig Overton reflects on the remarkable innings that led his side to victory at Yorkshire...
Children 'hit by cars' sparks calls for road crossing near school
Wednesday 15th July 2026'It is unacceptable that children feel so unsafe'Read full story...
Somerset reach T20 Blast semis, Glos beaten
Wednesday 15th July 2026Somerset, Northants Steelbacks, Notts Outlaws and Hampshire Hawks reach the T20 Blast semi-finals...
'Fun and inspirational' Gloucester headteacher stepping down from primary school after 21 years
Tuesday 14th July 2026He is "never afraid to get stuck in" - from eating school dinners with the pupils each day to dressing up as a rocket on sports dayRead full story...
Safety calls after horse jumped wall to avoid lorry
Tuesday 14th July 2026Peta Fray says her horse had to jump over a low wall after a near miss with a lorry...
Gloucestershire schools will only fine parents for absence 'as a last resort'
Monday 13th July 2026But the powers will "remain in place where needed"Read full story...
Repainting redundant road markings 'waste of cash'
Thursday 9th July 2026Council criticised after road markings outside a now-closed Cotswold school are repainted...
Markings appear on road 'for no apparent reason'
Thursday 9th July 2026Council criticised after road markings outside a now-closed Cotswold school are repainted...
Takeover update at 8 Gloucestershire schools - all you need to know
Thursday 9th July 2026It comes after the schools' former trust ran into serious financial troublesRead full story...
I didn't want to wake up tomorrow, says ex-alcoholic
Thursday 9th July 2026Jess Fry has been sober for one year and nine months and now works at the clinic that helped her...
How prepared is the West for hotter summers?
Monday 6th July 2026Record June heat closed schools and stretched hospitals now experts warn hotter summers are ahead...
Children grow and sell own food at local market
Monday 6th July 2026The pupils have spent months learning how to grow and tend their produce at gardens at school...
T20 Blast: Yorks beat Foxes, Somerset stun Northants
Sunday 5th July 2026Adam Lyth strikes an undefeated 131 from 63 balls – the highest score of this year's Vitality Blast – as Yorkshire beat Leicestershire Foxes at Headingley...
Pubs, schools and police prepare for England match
Friday 3rd July 2026Extended licensing hours, watch parties and extra patrols are planned for the 01:00 kick-off on Monday...
Teacher drove to Gloucestershire school almost four times over the limit
Wednesday 1st July 2026She arrived late and had a strong smell of alcohol on her breathRead full story...
Teacher banned for over the limit drive to school
Tuesday 30th June 2026Ngaio Trueman was reported after arriving at a primary school smelling of alcohol, a conduct panel hears...
National news archive
The Guardian view on Jason Arday: diversity advocates must stand firm | Editorial
Friday 7th August 2026Serious failings by one academic, and his bosses at the University of Cambridge, should not be allowed to undermine wider progressive goalsJason Arday’s resignation from the University of Cambridge on Wednesday marked a full stop of sorts, but not an end to the furore surrounding his promotion to a professorship at the age of 37...
With their assault on science, Trumpists aren’t just harming America – they’re harming themselves | Jan-Werner Müller
Friday 7th August 2026The administration is subjugating science to political imperatives, a major blow to US soft power and technological progressThe Trump administration is waging an unprecedented war on institutions devoted to research and higher learning...
Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment
Friday 7th August 2026Exclusive: Neet crisis review to call for teachers to be asked to spot those at risk of leaving education jobless at 16What can Dublin teach us? Milburn goes on quest to learnPrimary schools in England should be required to identify children at risk of leaving education at 16 without finding a job, a government review is to recommend...
Friday briefing: What the Jason Arday row reveals about equality in modern Britain
Friday 7th August 2026In today’s newsletter: Reputational power operates unevenly across elite organisations in British public life, shaping whose mistakes become scandals and whose are quietly absorbedGood morning...
The Guardian view on mental health: the new secretary of state should make it a priority | Editorial
Thursday 6th August 2026Parity for people with physical and psychological ailments has been promised for years...
All schools in England to get pupil attendance targets, government says
Thursday 6th August 2026The BBC understands schools will not be penalised for missing targets, but they will be monitored...
Danish pupils will have to orally defend essays in attempt to combat AI cheating
Thursday 6th August 2026Government introduces several measures, including monitoring of computers, for pupils aged 16 to 19Europe live – latest updatesDanish teenagers will have to make an oral defence of their written essays to combat AI cheating, the government has announced...
Students using AI to cheat will face stricter rules, says Danish government
Thursday 6th August 2026Teenagers must make oral defence of essays and schools will monitor computers during exams under crackdownDanish teenagers will have to make an oral defence of their written essays to combat AI cheating, the government has announced...
The 'education gap' hiding behind picture-perfect Cornwall and Devon
Thursday 6th August 2026Behind the South West's postcard image, poverty and isolation are limiting opportunities for many young people...
Teachers need help with AI. A union is offering training – with $23m in funding from big tech
Wednesday 5th August 2026Partnership between American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest labor unions in the US, and AI firms has stirred controversyDarius Saczuk, a high school teacher, views artificial intelligence as his enemy...
They gave me to someone who could not read or write … it would be better if you buried me alive
Wednesday 5th August 2026I was the top student in my university class but when the Taliban took Afghanistan again I was forced to marry and my dreams of being a pilot endedOn my last day of school it seemed years of effort were now contained in one small piece of paper...
Montessori learning is being shut down at Leah’s school – is a push towards ‘explicit instruction’ to blame?
Monday 3rd August 2026Critics say the one size-fits-all approach doesn’t work for all students and there are questions about the body that helped design itMichelle’s year-eight daughter, Leah*, has been in and out of hospital since birth with complex medical issues, and Michelle says flexible learning through a Montessori program has allowed her to keep up with school...
Children using social media at younger age appear to do worse in school tests
Monday 3rd August 2026Pupils who open accounts aged 11 to 12 score lower in some subjects than those who wait a few years, study findsChildren who open social media accounts at the start of secondary school appear to perform worse in tests than those who delay, with researchers suspecting that the constant checking for updates is a major distraction for many students...
How parents and pupils took on 'cruel', 'authoritarian' schools - and won
Monday 3rd August 2026Discipline at an academy trust went too far - parents, pupils and former teachers tell BBC Panorama...
‘I want to be ripped to shreds’: writers flock to MFAs - but does it breed elitist literature?
Monday 3rd August 2026Thousands of budding US novelists enlist in courses each year, hoping to gain credentials that often influence who gets publishedThomas Pynchon was known to avoid the press and refuse interviews...
‘Tiger mum’ Lucy Powell on Labour’s vocational skills drive: ‘It’s about ambition for everybody’
Sunday 2nd August 2026New education secretary says it is ‘false trade-off’ by critics to suggest schools cannot pursue academic excellence alongside technical skillsLucy Powell has said she wants to be an ambitious “tiger mum” for all young people, whatever their route through education, after the government was accused of dumbing down England’s schools with plans to create more vocational routes...
I’m all for the nanny state – but we should abolish fines for holidays in term time | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Sunday 2nd August 2026Some parents are sticklers for the rules, yet mass civil disobedience by parents in England and Wales suggests many agree with mePerhaps it’s my stage of parenthood, or the fact that I’ve been lying awake at night, but I think I have an idea that could secure the electoral future of the Labour party...
Could a couch-to-5k for books get you back into reading?
Sunday 2nd August 2026With smartphones stealing our attention, we’re picking up fewer books than ever...
Solitude as a new aspirational lifestyle: 'We are not lonely'
Saturday 1st August 2026A growing number of what the internet has dubbed "loneliness influencers" are spotlighting solo living without children or friends - and it's spurring debate...
If you think kids will respect a robot teacher, you have never met a kid | Dave Schilling
Saturday 1st August 2026A New York school district has paused plans to bring an android into the classroom...
Squishies and ‘a fuzzy book’: 21 things tweens want for back-to-school season, according to tweens
Friday 31st July 2026We asked tweens what is on their school wish list this year – including squishy toys, roller skate shoes and water bottlesBack-to-school sales are unusually early this year...
Parents sue school over 'inhumane' calming rooms after BBC report
Friday 31st July 2026Ten families are claiming their children were amongst those harmed by their treatment in the rooms...
Why is Oprah shutting down her elite girls' school?
Friday 31st July 2026US talk-show host Oprah Winfrey says the school for girls that she launched in South Africa nearly 20 years will close next year...
Calls grow ‘to flunk’ Portugal’s education minister amid exam marking fiasco
Friday 31st July 2026Fernando Alexandre’s push to digitise marking process deemed a failure with some students and parents contemplating legal actionPressure is growing on Portugal’s education minister to resign amid student and teacher protests over his handling of this year’s national school exams...
College Republicans are fighting and the far right is benefiting: ‘It looks very childish’
Thursday 30th July 2026Tensions in the national party are trickling down to US college campuses, where a newer student group is rapidly outflanking longstanding moderate rivalsWhen the Utah county clerk’s office announced last month that it was hiring Kai Schwemmer – an undergraduate at Brigham Young University and a rightwing influencer – to help reach younger voters, an uproar ensued...
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