Sir Keir Starmer urges the school trust to “match the positivity and the courage” of Millie, 12.

Four out of five secondary school teachers surveyed say they have heard perplexing viral phrase called out

Teachers call it “the most brain dead meme” but six-seven slang has invaded classrooms across the UK, with students even painting the numbers on their faces and leaving staff perplexed.

A survey of 10,000 teachers found that four out of five secondary school teachers had heard the viral...

The phrase has gone viral in the UK and the US among young people and we’d like to hear what teachers are making of it

Across the UK, teachers are being subjected to the echoes of the words “six-seven” shouted out at random by pupils in a new craze sweeping through classrooms.

The phrase appears to have originated with the Philadelphia rapper Skrilla’s 2024 track Doot Doot (6 7), which is...

Tamsin says a scheme from her Droitwich school helped her boost her post-pandemic attendance.

The levy will pay for maintenance grants, but North East universities say there will be challenges.

Parents say use of isolation room damages mental health and children’s learning

One in 12 secondary pupils put in isolation rooms at least once a week, study finds

Max was 11 and had just started his new secondary school when he was first put into isolation. He had asked to use the toilet between lessons, which was not ordinarily allowed, and was told to go quickly.

“He knew he wasn’t...

Children with special educational needs more than twice as likely to be put in isolation, say Manchester researchers

‘Publicly humiliated’: parents describe difficulty of children’s isolation at school

One in 12 secondary pupils report being put into school isolation rooms at least once a week where they often spend in excess of eight hours, missing more than a full day of lessons, according to...

The Institute for Public Policy Research says there should be more comprehensive support for Send students in mainstream schools.

School joins University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Brown in bowing to White House to restore funding

The University of Virginia (UVA) has become the latest school to agree to the Trump administration’s demands concerning discrimination in admissions and hiring following significant pressure from the justice department.

The deal, which the department announced on Wednesday, comes after the...

Family seeks tutor from ‘socially appropriate background’ who can provide infant with ‘comprehensive British cultural environment’

Getting paid £180,000 a year to tutor a single child might sound like a dream job but there’s a catch: the child is only one-year-old and you need to get him into Eton.

A wealthy family near London is “searching for a tutor to provide a comprehensive British...

The government’s funding plans, announced in this week’s white paper, won’t do much to alleviate a deepening crisis of morale among university staff

The prospect of university tuition fees passing the £10,000 threshold in this parliament will not put a song in the heart of Labour MPs desperate for some good news stories. Nevertheless, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, had little...

The government says it needs more time to test proposals for the special educational needs system.

Plans had been expected this autumn but government wants more time to build support for changes

The government is to delay publishing its long-awaited overhaul of special educational needs provision in England as ministers seek to build a coalition among parents to support its changes.

The schools white paper, which had been expected to be published this autumn, will not appear until early in...

The aim is to address systemic and institutional racism but those efforts need the space to expand not shrink

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It’s Black History Month in the UK, and it feels like it’s time for a rethink. Over the years, an event that started out as a celebration and reminder of history, culture and the connections between global Black...