Report from Scholars at Risk counts some 40 attacks against academic freedom in the US in the first half of 2025

A global academic freedom group has warned that the Trump administration’s assault on universities is turning the US into a “model for how to dismantle” academic freedom.

“We are witnessing an unprecedented situation – really as far as I can tell in history – where a global...

US president says ‘Linda is finishing up the details’ but not clear whether university ready to announce agreement

Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his administration had reached a deal with Harvard and that the school would pay $500m to settle the dispute between the federal government and the university.

“Linda is finishing up the final details,” Trump told reporters at an event in the...

Sir Keir Starmer says the Blair-era ambition of seeing half of young people in university is not “right for our times”.

The PM’s challenge it to make vocational options as attractive to parents and young people as higher eduction

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Keir Starmer has joined a long line of ministers and prime ministers who have called time on Tony Blair’s ambition for half of the nation’s young people to go on to higher education.

Rishi Sunak, Gavin Williamson and now Starmer have all declared an end...

It wasn’t quite what I was expecting from my daughter’s A-level geography class, but I had plenty of ideas

If you happen to have children of an age to willingly study geography, you’ll know that it’s the topic with all the best field trips. They’re constantly going somewhere. That place is rarely cool to begin with, and they zone in on the least cool thing about it, so if they go to the...

The study found pupils who are struggling academically are more likely to see self harm content online.

Ian Roberts was superintendent of Des Moines public schools, the largest school district in the state

The superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district has had his education license revoked by state education officials following his arrest last week by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents.

Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Des Moines public schools (DMPS), was detained by Ice...

Inquiry hears of children exposed to pornography and suffering ‘grievous’ harm without protection of schools

The Covid pandemic disrupted the “very fabric of childhood”, the UK inquiry has heard, on the first day of a four-week session devoted to its impact on children and young people.

Clair Dobbin KC, counsel to the inquiry, said in her opening submission on Monday that some of the evidence...

Schools encouraged to also offer access to gender-neutral or other facilities for transgender pupils

Schools must provide separate toilets and changing rooms for boys and girls to be used on the basis of a pupil’s biological sex, the Scottish government has said in updated guidance.

Transgender pupils can no longer use “the facilities they feel most comfortable with”, as was previously the...

The Scottish government has issued new guidance following two landmark court rulings.

This part of the inquiry is looking at the impact the pandemic had on children and young people.

Education secretary says means-tested grants for ‘those who need them most’ will be funded by new international student levy

Labour is to bring back maintenance grants for tens of thousands of students from low-income backgrounds who sign up to “priority” courses that support the government’s industrial strategy.

The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, said the means-tested grants were...

The support will be available to those on “priority courses”, with more detail to come in the autumn Budget.

A family say upgrade plans to a playground in Bromsgrove mean their disabled daughter cannot use it.

The local authority apologises to parents for the error and is investigating what happened.

Lana Collie-James was 14 when she began two years at home to protect her clinically vulnerable mother

Lana Collie-James was 14 years old in the midst of the Covid pandemic when she was offered a stark choice: her education or her mother’s life. “My mum’s clinically vulnerable. She has a compromised immune system, along with a plethora of other illnesses that would make Covid hit very...

Recruitment report identifies sharp rise in vacancies for warehouse staff and cleaners but large fall in graduate opportunities

Editorial: AI and jobs: tech revolution should be for the many not the few

Graduates fresh from university will find it difficult to find a job after a 35% drop in hiring by employers over the last year, according to analysis by a leading recruitment data...

Exclusive: Chancellor also set to unveil plans to get young people back into work in party conference speech

Rachel Reeves will deliver a library in every primary school in England as part of Labour’s plans to give all children the best start in life regardless of their background.

The scheme, which will create libraries in the 1,700 primaries currently without them, will be funded from...