Nish Kumar among comedians warning that rising costs could stop university revues visiting the festival

‘I don’t have any family connections in comedy or television, my leg up was that I went to a posh university that had this relationship with Edinburgh,” says Nish Kumar, who joined sketch group the Durham Revue while he was a student and got his first taste of the Edinburgh festival...

Learners at Denbigh High School were sent home after “historical chemicals” were found in a cupboard.

Move will have significant support but schools shouldn’t be responsible for solving ‘all the problems of society’, principals’ association warns

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Victorian school principals will soon have the power to suspend or expel students for their behaviour outside school, in a move that has been...

Leon says his experiences deeply affected him and other pupils and led him to act violently.

Those hoping to study in US are in limbo or looking elsewhere after president’s targeting of foreign students

For weeks, Subash Devatwal’s phone has not stopped ringing. Some of the calls have been from distressed students, at other times it is their panicked parents, but all have the same question – is their dream of studying in the US still possible?

Devatwal runs an education consultancy in...

The primary school pupils in Havering are told not to play outside due to the risk from the bird.

A council says stopping the patrols was a difficult decision it had to make for a balanced budget.

A small corner of one of the world’s oldest universities has moved the sport forward, and made the argument for research institutions writ large

If you hope to grasp why modern soccer looks the way it does, or the long strides we’ve made recently in understanding how it actually functions, it helps to know about what’s been happening at one of the world’s oldest universities, in...

Childcare support for working parents varies across the UK, depending on the child’s age.

Isles of Scilly teenagers have to leave home at 16 to study on the mainland.

Two school girls are campaigning for legislation to force schools to offer girls a choice.

EIS general secretary Andrea Bradley has called for action to reduce teachers’ class contact time.

Megha Vemuri gave speech the day before commencement, condemning the university’s ties to Israel

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) barred its 2025 class president from attending her graduation ceremony on Friday after she delivered a speech during a commencement event the day before condemning the war in Gaza and criticizing the university’s ties to Israel.

The student, Megha Vemuri,...

Aaron Koller hopes to encourage a broader interest in Hebrew, which he says is seen as ‘a political thing’

When Henry VIII established a royal professorship in Hebrew nearly 500 years ago, the idea that a Jew would fill the role at Cambridge studying the ancient language of the Israelites was impossible.

“It’s not surprising, if you know that at the time of Henry VIII Jews were banned from...

A new report says universities should be allowed to collaborate more in order to deliver merged courses.

If the US’s oldest university bends the knee, the door to authoritarianism opens and democracy fades, experts warn

In mortarboards and crimson-fringed gowns, thousands of students were joined by smiling families for the centuries-old ritual of graduation day. But this year was different.

Alan Garber, the president of Harvard University, received a standing ovation and welcomed graduates “from...

An anti-exploitation charity says its referral rates have risen by 233% in four years.

Dozens of child actors will feature in HBO’s new Harry Potter series, all of them needing on-set tuition to be conjured up between scenes

Harry Potter may have been overjoyed at going to Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, but the children playing Harry, Ron and Hermione in the forthcoming HBO TV series will vanish from their own schools for the rest of their childhoods.

Instead the...

Schools in Lincolnshire are due to benefit from the work which is expected to last into next year.

Pen Green, a model for Labour’s Sure Start, could face closure if Reform-led North Northamptonshire council fails to act

A world-renowned children’s centre that provided the model for Sure Start is on the brink of collapse, with its future in the hands of the newly elected Reform UK leadership of its local council.

The Pen Green Centre, which pioneered wrap-around care and learning for...

Alfred Williamson’s future in doubt after president’s attempt to stop foreign nationals studying at the university

A British freshman at Harvard fears he will not be able to return to the US to complete his degree after Donald Trump demanded the university stops teaching international students.

Alfred Williamson, 20, from Cardiff, left Boston when the academic year ended two weeks ago to visit...