Growing numbers of institutions now offering lifelong careers support as older alumni seek help to change jobs

University careers advisers are used to steering fresh-faced students towards the labour market – but they are now increasingly seeing graduates in their 40s and 50s looking for help to revive their careers.

More UK universities are now giving their graduates lifelong access to campus...

Pupils will attend different schools for several weeks while a new site is prepared, leaders say.

Elite junior tennis players are flocking to online schools. The model offers flexibility and focus – but raises deeper questions about growth, pressure and childhood

In a major study released recently in Epidemiology, conclusions were drawn – yet again – regarding how shutdowns and online learning were ultimately very damaging to kids’ emotional and mental health (obviously some cohorts...

A Children’s Booker prize, library cards for newborns and a major campaign – initiatives to encourage a love of books in children are a cause for celebration

Reading to children from a young age leads to greater happiness, educational success, empathy and social mobility – no wonder the government wants to encourage everyone to do it more. To this end, next year has been decreed the National...

Fewer children are reading for fun – but parents are trying everything from AI to dramatic voices to keep them engaged

It’s been a tough year for our brains. Merriam-Webster dictionary editors chose “slop” as 2025’s word of the year. New York Magazine recently dropped its “Stupid Issue”, with a cover story exploring America’s collective “cognitive decline”. There are big...

Candidates will have to sit assessments in person unless there are exceptional circumstances, says ACCA

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The world’s largest accounting body is to stop students being allowed to take exams remotely to crack down on a rise in cheating on tests that underpin professional qualifications.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), which has almost...

A scheme that started four years ago brings primary school pupils together with elderly residents living nearby.

Professor Green and Ryan Libbey open up about how fatherhood affected them and how you can protect your mental health.

As the US faces challenges to public school funding, activists warn that more people should pay attention to what’s happened in Inglewood, California

Inglewood, California – a few miles east of Los Angeles international airport – is known as the city of champions. The NBA champion Lakers once called Inglewood’s Forum – famously dubbed “the fabulous Forum” by announcer Chick Hearn – home.

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The Guinness Book of Records is a favourite with boys, but one author always tops the list.

Cláudio Valente and one of victims, Nuno FG Loureiro, both studied at notoriously challenging Técnico in Lisbon

As investigators in Massachusetts work to piece together a motive for the murders of two Brown University students and an MIT physics professor, former classmates of the suspected gunman and one of the victims have been asking if the roots of the tragedy lie in their shared experience...

Wealth of datasets compiled as private passions are now a goldmine for those hunting for their ancestors

The autumn sunlight is filtering through quietly falling leaves as Louise Cocker stands in front of the gravestone of James Henry Payne and takes a quick photograph. Payne died at the age of 73 in October 1917 and was buried in the Norfolk town of North Walsham, along with his wife Eleanor...

Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbers

Record numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions.

Senioruniversitet, a national university that collaborates with Sweden’s adult education...

Kateryna Endeberia says teachers made the ‘hurtful’ request when she had difficulty with other subjects

A Ukrainian refugee has been forced to drop out of sixth-form college after she said she was put under pressure to study Russian.

Kateryna Endeberia moved to Stoke-on-Trent after fleeing Ukraine in 2022, after the start of Russia’s invasion.

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