Dorset Council is considering a number of proposals for Weymouth, including a new university.

Sensitive research into alleged human rights abuses is alleged to have been shut down by Chinese agents.

Union had sought permission to apply for judicial review over watchdog’s new inspection framework

A head teachers’ union is to consult members about possible industrial action after a high court judge dismissed its attempt to challenge Ofsted’s new inspection regime for schools in England.

The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) sought permission to apply for a judicial review,...

New Ofsted inspections will go ahead as planned this month after the NAHT union’s failed legal challenge.

Shoes are left at council offices to highlight issues of children with special educational needs.

Students in Northamptonshire share their views about having mobile phones on them in school.

Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities

A British university complied with a demand from Beijing to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project being dropped, the Guardian can reveal.

In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy...

Masculinity is almost always presented as toxic on my feed – but we need constructive alternatives to give hope to those who feel lost

If you judged modern boyhood from the headlines, you’d think we were broken – radicalised, misogynistic, angry. But as a teenage boy myself, I don’t see a generation of lost boys around me. I see young men trying to make sense of a world that seems...

The North East has seen the biggest fall in trainee teachers in England, down by 56% since 2019-20.

Many freshers come with high expectations of what they imagine will be the best years of their lives.

Education secretary says mandatory test needed to tackle ‘shocking outcomes’ for many working-class children

Bridget Phillipson has said she is ready to take on the unions in a battle over compulsory reading tests for 13-year-olds and more extracurricular activities for all children to prevent them becoming “stuck in a doom loop of detachment” from school.

The education secretary said that...

As ‘nasty split’ emerges on campuses, one Conservative society has opted to merge with their rightwing rivals

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Last year’s freshers’ fair was a dismal time for Newcastle University’s Conservative society, with just six new students showing any interest in joining at the start of the autumn term.

But this year’s event brought dozens of students showing up with...

For many young people, the online gaming world is a refuge, as well as a place to build up their digital skills through gaming and coding. Now, a new initiative to offer pathways into cybersecurity could help them put these talents to use

The superfast evolution of technology can create a digital divide between parents and their teens. Gen X and millennials may have had their childhoods...

Deeming universities too leftwing, outside donors and state governments are sponsoring curricula that center the classics, Christianity and the ‘great books’ of western civilization

A small conservative revolution has swept the humanities at some US colleges and universities. Its vanguard are new programs, called centers or institutes, that have begun cropping up at schools in recent years....

National Audit Office finds £415m overspend as more children travel farther to schools that meet their needs

Home-to-school transport costs in England have risen to £2.3bn a year, as increasing numbers of children with special educational needs and disabilities travel farther afield to schools that can meet their requirements, according to a report.

More than half a million children and young...

Owner of firm used by chancellor says he ‘deeply regrets’ issue

Rachel Reeves’ rental error: standards adviser looking at new information

Robert Peston, ITV’s political editor, says he thinks it is a mistake for the Conservatives to be saying Rachel Reeves should have to resign over the rental licence error. He explains why in a post on social media. Here is an extract.

Kemi Badenoch’s call...

My book, which draws on my upbringing on a diverse and deprived Luton council estate, has been used as a GCSE text. But one man objected to its profane language and depictions of violence and sexual behaviour

Back in September, in a measure designed to “prevent immorality”, the Taliban closed down the internet in Afghanistan. This was the latest step – after a ban on all girls over the...

The government body says meningitis symptoms can easily be confused with a hangover.

The university students had been barred from bringing children or dependents by previous visa policies

Palestinian students taking up scholarships at UK universities will be allowed to bring their families from Gaza with them after the government said it would consider case-by-case exemptions.

The Gazan students had previously been unable to take up their scholarships because they were barred...

Growing number of schools are giving pupils and staff a fortnight off, but some parents complain of childcare costs

For many schools across England it’s currently October half-term – but while it used to be standard for state schools to have just one week, increasingly and staff are being given a fortnight off.

A growing number of schools have added, or are intending to add, an additional week...