From sorting out travel to maximising the offers available, it pays to get ready for school early

To get your children’s uniforms sorted in time, and at a good price, you need to start early – you will avoid long queues and have plenty of choice of style, size and price point.

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A parent of children at Our Lady’s Abingdon says its leaders have “dropped off the face of the earth”

Mixed classes would widen children’s understanding and reduce stigma and disinformation about periods, researchers say

Boys and girls should be taught together in mixed classes about menstruation to help reduce the stigma, secrecy and disinformation which still surrounds periods, according to researchers.

A new study by University College London (UCL) claims schoolchildren are being given...

Belief that snack chain’s revenues exceed those of Oxford one of many underestimations of importance of HE sector

Manchester United and Greggs’ famous sausage rolls are no match for the financial firepower of Britain’s leading universities, despite many members of the public thinking otherwise, according to research.

The study by King’s College London’s policy institute revealed that many...

Your full guide to this year’s GCSE exams in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Borrowers say higher repayments under changed Save plan means placing life on hold and creating further anxiety

When Faith, a 33-year-old in Burlington, North Carolina, went back to get her master’s degree in higher education administration in 2020-21, she hoped it would accelerate her career growth and maybe even help her get on the housing ladder.

Now, Faith has federal student loan debts of...

It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter

I must admit: I write this piece while starving – too hungry to think clearly, too weak to sit upright for long. I do not feel ashamed because my starvation is deliberate. I refuse my hunger even as it decays me. I can survive no other way.

Since 2...

Hundreds of assaults on staff have been reported to the Health and Safety Executive.

The university says it made 26 people redundant and decided to close 19 vacant posts.

Education secretary urges schools to change uniform requirements as costs force many parents into debt

Parents in England are skipping meals and turning to buy-now-pay-later services such as Klarna in order to afford school uniforms before the autumn term, according to a survey.

Almost half (47%) of the 2,000 parents who took part in the poll said they were worried about uniform costs, which...

Schools and parents tell of inexperienced and absent tutors, and slow refunds alongside repeated demands to pay for services never wanted or received

In April 2024, Hannah, a teacher in a Kent primary school where she is in charge of music, thought she had successfully set up weekly drum lessons for around 10 children. She had found a company to provide them: Totally Rad, based in the West...

Students at a secondary school in London wrote letters to themselves at the height of Covid – and opened them again just before their GCSEs.

Dec My Dorm gives away sheet sets, pillows, shower caddies and other essentials at an annual summer event

When Ar’reiona Green was accepted to Sacramento State last year, she knew she would need books and school supplies. She didn’t expect to need a toolbox. Or hangers. Or that her dorm room wouldn’t come with a fan or a lamp.

Like many first-year students, Green, who is headed into her...

Education, health and care plans have been invaluable for my children. Hints they could be scrapped fill me with fear

Carrie Grant is a TV presenter and voice coach and a parent of four children with special educational needs

Three of my four children have had full EHCPs. These are education, health and care plans, which means each child’s needs have been assessed and documented. They...

Our panel responds: the more we know about this technology, the more it is the source of hope and worry. We have views that must be heard

• The panel was compiled by Sumaiya Motara and Saranka Maheswaran, interns on the Guardian’s positive action scheme

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Exclusive: Bridget Phillipson says Rise scheme will use techniques from Blair government’s London Challenge

Why are London schools outperforming the rest of England?

Ministers plan to turbocharge their school improvement programme to tackle regional inequalities, aiming to export the success of London’s high-achieving pupils to England’s most struggling schools.

Bridget Phillipson, the...