The entire island of Ireland is now under red warnings, which are the highest level of alert.

Three teachers sat – and failed – the first Cambridge English exam 112 years ago. How would you do?

School bosses say pupils are paying the price because of a lack of decent government investment.

UK charity calls for positions of four weeks or longer to be banned to help close social mobility gap

Young people from working-class or disadvantaged backgrounds are being “locked out” of careers by unpaid or low-paid internships that benefit middle-class graduates, according to a social mobility charity.

Research by the Sutton Trust found that middle-class graduates made more use of...

John Healey says foreign ship Yantar is in North Sea to gather intelligence on UK’s underwater infrastructure

A new online train ticket retailer backed by the UK government is to be created, the Department for Transport (DfT) has announced, with the aim of simplifying the process of buying tickets from different rail operators. Joanna Partridge has the story.

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The Tory leader accuses PM of “vandalism” but Sir Keir says the Schools Bill will protect vulnerable children.

A conference arranged by the campaign group Smartphone Free Childhood, takes place on Thursday.

Kemi Badenoch called Keir Starmer’s children’s wellbeing and schools bill ‘an act of vandalism’ at PMQs. She said the bill wrecked a cross-party consensus (on academy freedoms) that had lasted for decades. Starmer replied Labour had introduced academies and they would stay. The bill will include measures for the safeguarding and welfare of children as well as policies including breakfast club...

The union and school bosses are to meet on Friday for talks aimed at resolving the dispute.

The children’s laureate says a “recession in children’s happiness” is caused by a decline in reading.

The president can’t fully eliminate the federal agency, but an overhaul could disrupt critical services for students who are of color, low-income or LGBTQ+

For many students of color, access to an equitable education is dependent on the initiatives and programs provided by the Department of Education. Among its various functions, the department provides targeted funding for low-income students,...

Kray says Birmingham City Council failed to provide an education plan within the legal timeframe.

We are far more likely to use our hands to type or swipe than pick up a pen. But in the process we are in danger of losing cognitive skills, sensory experience – and a connection to history

Humming away in offices on Capitol Hill, in the Pentagon and in the White House is a technology that represents the pragmatism, efficiency and unsentimental nature of American bureaucracy: the autopen. It is...

Richard Adams reports on the Send funding cliff edge affecting children and their development

Violet in north London is six years old and loves butterflies and moths. She’s autistic with speech and language difficulties and even before she started nursery, her mother, Tamara, began pursuing extra support from her local authority. Years later, the process of obtaining an educational health care...

University of Brighton Academies Trust runs 11 primary schools and three secondary schools.

The answer to today’s queueing condundrum

Earlier today I set you the following logic problem, as a retrospective commemoration of World Logic Day. Here it is again with the solution – and a comment about how it relates to the real world.

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The former politics professor is right to defend free speech in our higher education system, but his argument is undermined by his hysterical tone and lack of nuance

Matt Goodwin is a former professor of politics at the University of Kent who took voluntary severance last year, following a series of controversial posts after the Stockport stabbings. He has said that his departure had nothing to...

A head-scratching hat puzzle

Today’s puzzle retrospectively commemorates UNESCO’s World Logic Day, which took place last week. (The date, January 14, is both the day Kurt Gödel died and the day Alfred Tarski was born, a calendrical coincidence that links the pre-eminent logicians of the twentieth century.)

It is a logic puzzle and, as is typical for the genre, concerns a group of clever people...