Artificial intelligence can execute tasks in seconds that once took humans hours, if not days to complete. While this may be great for productivity, some researchers are concerned that our increasing use of AI could be impacting our ability to tackle difficult problems and think critically. To find out where the science stands, and how worried we should be about the potential of AI to change...

Britain quit EU programme after Brexit, when Boris Johnson claimed it did not offer good value for money

The UK is hoping to secure an agreement within weeks to rejoin the EU’s flagship student mobility programme, as part of a drive to pursue closer relations with Brussels after a setback on defence.

Negotiators are aiming to finalise a deal by January that would allow the UK to participate in...

After the death of former pupil Jack Lloyd, a primary will train children in a portable pool.

Advocacy group tells education secretary ‘working smarter’ can protect staff wellbeing and help students

Campaigners have urged the government to pilot four-day working weeks in schools in England and Wales saying it would boost teacher wellbeing, retention and recruitment rates.

The 4 Day Week Foundation has written to the education secretary calling for greater autonomy for schools to pilot...

Tory special needs reforms upended council finances, but Labour’s plan to rebuild public provision won’t come cheap if it’s done properly

The crisis over special educational needs and disabilities in England is not just a question of cash. Children and parents spend months and years battling for support to which the law entitles them, schools lack the funding to meet needs, and specialist...

Kernewek to have greater protections, like Welsh, Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic, so it can be used in education and legal hearings

The Cornish language is due to be given the same status as Welsh, Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic after the government submitted it for greater protections under a European charter.

Kernewek, spoken as a first language by 563 people according to the last census, has...

James ‘Jamie’ Richards left several staff traumatised and was described as “predatory” by a panel.

Families seeking help for their children’s complex needs describe threats of police action against them.

From 10 December, social media firms must ensure Australians aged under 16 cannot have accounts.

Bridget Phillipson has reassured MPs that Send costs will not fall on core schools funding but on government budget

Ministers are to reduce the rising cost of funding special educational needs provision through their overhaul of the system, as they faced calls to explain how a £6bn funding hole would be paid for.

The government is under pressure to clarify how it will pay for special...

Graduates in relatively low-paid jobs earning close to minimum wage will have to repay ‘more, much sooner’

The National Union of Students (NUS) has warned that a three-year freeze on the salary threshold for loan repayments could leave new graduates struggling to afford food, rent and bills.

In Rachel Reeves’s budget on Wednesday it was announced that from April 2027, the salary at which...

Ministers say the Office for Budget Responsibility’s projections do not take into account upcoming reforms.

The Buddy Bear School in Dungannon, County Tyrone, opened in 1993 and is the only school of its kind in Northern Ireland.

‘Once-in-a-generation transformation’ of Grade-I building will bring teaching spaces under same roof as gallery

The Courtauld has unveiled an £82m campus redevelopment it is calling a “once-in-a-generation transformation” of its Grade-I listed building at Somerset House in London.

The Stirling prize-winning architects Witherford Watson Mann will take charge of the project at the teaching and...

Councils welcome move but OBR says it is a significant fiscal risk and could lead to 4.9% real fall in spending per pupil

The government will take over full responsibility for special educational needs spending from local councils, it was revealed at the budget, prompting warnings that the Department for Education could be facing a £20bn timebomb in two years.

The Office for Budget...

It can feel wrong to encourage young people to shoot for the stars – yet if no one did, our world would be empty of the artists, actors, athletes and visionaries who give it so much pleasure and meaning

Who wants to crush a kid’s dreams? Not me. But what to say when asked by a teenager about a career in the media? With tens of thousands of media, journalism and other graduates crowding into...

What does it mean to lose a language? And what does it take to save it? Those were the big questions being asked in Barcelona recently

There’s an Irish saying, tír gan teanga, tír gan anam: a country without a language is a country without a soul. Representatives of some of Europe’s estimated 60 minority languages – or minoritised, as they define them – met in Barcelona recently to...

Regulator says 24 are at more immediate risk and may have to stop degree courses within next 12 months

Fifty higher education providers in England are at risk of exiting the market within the next two to three years, MPs on the House of Commons education committee have been told as part of their inquiry into university funding and the threat of insolvency.

The evidence follows last week’s...

A new documentary from the makers of Jesus Camp follows the students enrolled at one of Norway’s 85 ‘folk high schools’. Can sledding and survival skills cure their social media-induced anxiety?

Nineteen-year-old Hege is stricken by all the common anxieties of her generation. She spends too much time scrolling through socials on her phone, and as a result she is obsessed with how other people...

Show at Cauldeen primary school in Inverness had included a scene explaining hardship faced by Syrian refugees

A primary school in Scotland has cancelled its Christmas show after receiving “racist and abusive” messages because it featured sympathy towards Syrian refugees.

The decision by Cauldeen primary school in Inverness follows rising tensions at other schools in Scotland over adult English...

The prime minister performed a version of the viral dance with primary school children, before being told it was not allowed.