Thousands of ‘digital natives’ to be taught social skills, as employers say they are too afraid to speak on phone

Thousands of gen Z students in Greater Manchester are to learn “soft skills” such as empathy and time-management in a UK-first trial aimed at teaching “everyday but essential” tools.

The pioneering programme will teach young people how to thrive in the workplace after employers said...

Nursery places can difficult to find, particularly in certain areas – so why have successive governments not yet found a solution?

Dame Rachel de Souza says parents should look to their own smartphone use and not try to be their children’s friend

Parents should be prepared to make difficult decisions over their child’s smartphone usage rather than trying to be their friend, the children’s commissioner for England has said.

Dame Rachel de Souza said this should include parents considering the example they are setting their...

Low school attendance is a symptom of the problem, an expression of something deeper

I was on the phone to a friend talking about our kids as I clicked through a new report launched at Westminster a couple of weeks ago. It was about how children are facing a “crisis of lost learning” because they are being suspended or excluded from school, or they’re not attending because their needs are...

Substituting liberal biases with conservative will only serve to subvert academic objectivity

Few people want to live in an echo chamber. Many have no problem being friends with those who vote differently to the way they do. And many would probably agree with John Stuart Mill that “he who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that” – that to truly know one’s own argument,...

Thousands of parents will be able to access 30 minutes of morning childcare from Tuesday.

As a new documentary explores Boarding School Syndrome, seven former pupils share their stories…

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He says his son’s allocated school is “on the other side of town” to the one his siblings attend.

NASUWT conference votes to launch strike ballot if spending review does not top up school budgets in full

A second teaching union in England has vowed to strike if the government fails to compensate schools in full for next year’s teachers’ pay award.

The NASUWT union’s annual conference voted to reject any pay offer from the government that did not top up school budgets in June’s spending...

Almost three in five teachers believe social media use has had a negative effect on behaviour in schools, according to a union poll.

Schools are pushing out established groups as funding for more places comes on stream

A government pledge to create more nurseries has backfired, according to early years providers. More than a dozen schools are evicting ­existing preschool providers that operate in classrooms amid concerns they are doing so to access state funding to set up their own provision.

It means that the pledge to...

After months of mounting pressure on the university to defend itself, Harvard rejected a series of Trump administration demands – here’s what happened

It took Harvard University less than 72 hours to reject a series of demands put forth by the Trump administration, setting up a high-stakes showdown between the US’s wealthiest and oldest university and the White House.

The swift rebuke on Monday...

Across the country, there’s a demographic shift. This is a chance to reinvest in our threadbare education system

Primary school offer day has become a bittersweet moment in many communities. While anxious parents will breathe a sigh of relief upon securing their first-choice school, the chance of success has increased as reception applications have continued to fall. Falling birthrates and the...

Survey finds social media main cause of poor behaviour, with pupils mimicking Donald Trump and Andrew Tate

A rise in misogyny and racism is flooding UK schools as pupils ape the behaviour of figures such as Donald Trump and Andrew Tate after exposure through social media and online gaming, teachers have warned.

A survey by the NASUWT union found most teachers identified social media as “the...