A group of low-fee paying private schools have challenged the government’s removal of the VAT exemption.

Parents opposing plans told they can home school their children if they object to sending them to state schools

The court of appeal has rejected the latest challenge to the addition of VAT to private school fees, telling parents they have the option to home school their children if they object to sending them to state schools.

The appeal was launched by families and leaders of four independent...

Republican lawmakers push for conservative professors to counter purported leftwing indoctrination in schools

This story was produced by the Hechinger Report, a non-profit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

One glossy insert stuck out from the orientation packet handed to hundreds of Ohio State University freshmen last August. It advertised a...

People at the start of their careers are particularly affected by the UK’s weak job market.

As the dust settles on the government’s landmark changes to children’s special educational needs and disabilities provision, what will their impact really be on young people, their families and schools? John Harris and Kiran Stacey look at what we know so far. And, a growing backlash from graduates over student loan payments, led by the influential consumer champion Martin Lewis, is causing...

Met urges pupils not to get involved and asks platforms to ban accounts promoting ‘fights’ with images of weapons

Pupils as young as 11 are being encouraged to join in school fights in posts on TikTok and Snapchat, prompting police to urge children not to get involved.

The Metropolitan police have asked social media platforms to ban accounts promoting “school wars”, while headteachers have...

Ministers want to tackle the high number of young people not in education, employment or training.

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...

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,...

MPs criticise “rip-off” interest rates and unfair changes to repayment terms during a debate in Parliament

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 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...