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Ministers want to tackle the high number of young people not in education, employment or training.
THURSDAY, 19 MARCH 2026, 22:46

Ministers want to tackle the high number of young people not in education, employment or training.
Via essays, poems, videos, artwork and graphics, 35 students across the globe reflect on how this technology is affecting teenagers.
We asked high school educators what it’s like to teach at a time when A.I. is transforming education. They answered in images, essays and videos.
In two recent incidents, teenagers drove trains briefly, and in one case drove a G train into another train. A 14-year-old was arrested in that episode.
Republicans have embraced vouchers, while Democrats have criticized them. But as thousands of preschool parents vie for the funds, the state program may help a progressive goal.
Experts caution that low-quality, A.I.-generated videos on YouTube geared toward children often feature conflicting information, lack plot structure and can be cognitively overwhelming — all of which could affect young children’s development.
Inspectors found several instances in which child care staff members were working in classrooms even though they had not completed all of the required background checks.

It doesn’t fit neatly on a Treasury spreadsheet, but there is huge value in disabled and non-disabled pupils learning together
When I was 11, a woman at the hospital asked me what school I was starting in September. I still remember her surprise when I told her I would be going to the local girls grammar, as the hoist pulled my wet limbs out of the physio pool. I was a child but already...
The professor, speaking on a hot mic, said, “They’re too dumb to know they’re in a bad school” when a student objected to the possible closure of a middle school. The remark was assailed as racist.
F.B.I. agents executed search warrants at the locations. The target of their investigation was unclear.

Government looks at options such as increasing loan repayment thresholds amid growing pressure
Ministers are examining ways to ease the burden of student loans after weeks of pressure over a policy pulling more people into repayments, the Guardian understands.
The Treasury and the Department for Education are reviewing different options to offer relief to graduates with Plan 2 student loans,...
Mr. Summers, former president of the school, had stepped back from teaching after documents showed a closer relationship to Jeffrey Epstein than previously known. He will leave at the end of the academic year.

MPs criticise “rip-off” interest rates and unfair changes to repayment terms during a debate in Parliament
A fifth-grade teacher and his principal wife hid in their bedroom as dozens of people who believed he might be a kidnapper appeared on their suburban street.
In some schools, Yondr, a pouch marketed to keep kids off devices, has proved no match for actual children.

A compelling and fitfully harrowing child’s-eye account of a mother’s unravelling
Stefan Merrill Block was nine when his mother pulled him out of school. It was the early 1990s and the family had recently moved from Indianapolis to Plano, Texas, where Block’s father had started a new job. While Block and his older brother, Aaron, had been wrenched away from their schoolmates, their mother had...
The Nobel laureate Richard Axel is not accused of wrongdoing but called his association with Jeffrey Epstein a “serious error in judgment.”

The government has unveiled its long-awaited plans for reforming SEND provision in England – but what do those most impacted make of the changes?

Lawsuit is latest action by Trump administration against a university and escalation of president’s feud with California
The justice department sued the University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday, alleging the university created a hostile work environment for Jewish and Israeli faculty and staff after protests against the war on Gaza broke out across campus.
The lawsuit claims UCLA...

Education leaders and MPs say government needs to be careful about mental health impact on leaders and teachers in already overstretched sector
Teachers and schools face “a huge ask” implementing the government’s special needs proposals affecting hundreds of thousands of children, according to education leaders and MPs who otherwise gave the plans a cautious welcome.
Under the plans unveiled by...
The Trump administration accused the University of California, Los Angeles, of not doing enough to curb antisemitism.