
Pupil, 18, dies at private school
Police say the death of the pupil on Monday is not being treated as suspicious.
SUNDAY, 14 DECEMBER 2025, 23:43

Police say the death of the pupil on Monday is not being treated as suspicious.
The view from Dartmouth, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wesleyan.
We should not demand ever more knowledge of newcomers and ever less of our current citizens.
New emails showed that Dr. Summers, a former Harvard president, had stayed in touch with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Mr. Epstein faced sex trafficking charges.

A poll of teachers around the UK suggests they have a poorer wellbeing than the general population.

A couple unlawfully arrested over complaints about their child’s school say police have paid them damages.

The head teacher tells parents references to demons can feel “deeply uncomfortable” to Christians.

Unions say school managers are failing to deal with persistent “disruptive behaviour”.

Scoill Yn Jubilee is taking part in a pilot scheme which has seen the redesign of a classroom.

White House had demanded $1.2bn from UC to restore funding after saying it allowed antisemitism on campus
The Trump administration cannot fine the University of California or summarily cut the school system’s federal funding over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimination, a federal judge ruled late on Friday in a sharply worded decision.
US district judge Rita Lin in San...

Duncan Ivison, president of Manchester University, says government’s 6% surcharge plan will ‘hurt the sector’
A levy on tuition fees paid by international students is “wrong”, will “hurt the sector” and is “not in the long-term interests” of the UK, according to the vice-chancellor of one of the country’s leading universities.
Duncan Ivison, who took over as president and vice-chancellor of the...

Nathan Wyatt’s experience led to a new law giving students more time to find somewhere to live.

A temporary classroom site is being created nearby to allow Denbigh primary to close for six months.

Councils say 59 authorities could go bankrupt by March 2028 without urgent structural reform
Special educational needs services in England face “total collapse”, with councils on course to have run up debts of £18bn by the end of the decade as a result of increasing numbers of children requiring extra teaching support in schools.
Without urgent structural reform of the system, the cost of...

Ofsted is investigating whether Remedicare Education failed to register as a school.

Julie Broadbent is praised for her “unique ability to connect with pupils”.

Minister rejects claims Māori history is being sidelined in rewrite which includes cutting some references to the Treaty of Waitangi
As cows grazed sleepily in a nearby paddock, then-14-year-old Leah Bell watched as a local Māori elder cried.
She was standing at the site of the massacre at Rangiaowhia, where Māori were deliberately burnt to death by the British crown in 1864. The site was just...

The government is facing political pressure as it tries to reform the “broken” system of support for children with special educational needs.

The blaze in May 2023 at Yatton Infants School, in Somerset, destroyed half of the roof.

Union members plan to walk out later this month over plans to cut 400 roles at Lancaster University.

More inclusive institutions under pressure as some take on six times as many children requiring extra support
Schools in England are steering away children with special needs, leading some to have six times as many pupils requiring learning or behaviour support compared with others, according to research.
Local authority leaders told the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) they...