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Girlguiding survey reveals rising fears of harassment, with many avoiding public transport or changing what they wear
Two-thirds of girls and young women have changed their everyday behaviour to try to stay safe, with 31% avoiding taking public transport alone, according to a survey by the Girlguiding charity.
The research found that 56% of girls and young women in the UK aged between 11 and...
Ryan Beggs has been enrolling in apprenticeship courses for the past two years but has been unable to find an employer to take him on.
First 34 students, who have full scholarships, welcomed after months of campaigning by academics and others
Middle East crisis – live updates
A group of Palestinian scholars who have been awaiting evacuation from Gaza to take up their places at universities across the UK finally arrived on Monday after “a surreal journey from devastation to opportunity”.
The 34 students, who all have fully...
Conservative efforts to call out and punish educators over liberal ideas have grown for years, led in part by Charlie Kirk himself.
It is a first effort by the country’s new government to understand the sequence of violent events that led to the abrupt downfall of the old one.
The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) says Zoe Williams fell “significantly short” of the profession.
The party says mandatory warnings are required to protect children from “addictive” app algorithms.
The frantic competition that we’ve normalized is based on a lie about what makes a college education truly valuable.
The Kremlin has infused education with nationalism and militarism. Outlawing the International Baccalaureate underlines that effort.
This is one of those moments in history.
Carla Risoldi, a summer school student at the college in 1985, returns the key on a visit to the UK.
Food handouts and employment are increasingly tied to Afghan families’ agreement to strict Islamic education
When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, Nahid, 24, was midway through an economics degree. She had hoped to work in a university after she graduated.
Instead, Nahid now spends her mornings at a religious school in the basement of a mosque in the western city of...
From mooted Whitehall cost-cutting to the bigoted views of Reform, parents of children with special needs see the latest threats, and we are mobilising
There are more than 1.7 million children and young people in England’s schools who are recognised as having special educational needs and disabilities (or Send). When you factor in their parents and carers, it highlights the huge number of...
Piece on website of LEYF, which runs nurseries across London, talked of party’s ‘growing appeal to mothers’
The company running the House of Commons nursery and others across London has been criticised for publishing an article on its website praising Reform UK’s conference and claiming anti-immigration protests were “driven by a sense of injustice”.
The article, which was taken down by LEYF...
Group of students from Gaza with places at British universities are due to arrive in the UK within days
David Lammy has hinted that the UK government could U-turn to allow Palestinian scholars to bring their children to the UK.
A group of 34 Palestinian students, including Chevening scholars, with places at British universities have been given permission to continue their studies in Britain....
As students struggle to cover the cost of university, the BBC speaks to young people to find out how they make it work.
Schools would be required to build memorial plaza and describe slain activist as civil rights leader or face fines
Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma introduced legislation this week that would require every public university in the state to construct “a Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza”, with a statue of the assassinated Republican activist and a sign calling him a “modern civil rights...
Young liberals challenged Kirk’s conservative views on the viral YouTube series Surrounded – an ‘unnerving’ spectacle, according to a rhetoric expert
In the days after his killing, Charlie Kirk was remembered by his allies as a great debater. A quote taken from a widely shared video of Kirk discussing his life’s work – “when people stop talking, that’s when violence happens” –...
Educators worry about absenteeism and smartphones as NAEP report shows scores at lowest levels in two decades
The average reading and math scores of American high school seniors fell to their lowest levels in two decades in 2024, according to new national data released last week.
The results, from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), found that, on average, reading scores for...
Leaders have been taking first class flights while staff are being made redundant, a union says.
Theatre schools are in crisis. More must be done to nurture young talent like Owen Cooper across the country
As well as the urgent social problems raised by Adolescence – online misogyny and radicalisation – the show’s phenomenal success has drawn attention to a growing cultural issue: the importance of grassroots drama schools and clubs, and working-class representation on TV.
Last Sunday,...