Claims health of staff and children at risk as France struggles to adapt heat-trap school buildings

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Teachers in France are risking their own and students’ health in overheated schools as a severe heatwave sets new record temperatures, education unions said, urging staff to strike over “unacceptable working conditions”.

Several teaching unions on Thursday issued a...

It is the highest yearly increase in education, health and care plans (EHCPs) since they were introduced.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch’s called Bridget Phillipson a ‘spiteful class warrior’ at PMQs.

New data suggests which university degrees have the highest and lowest financial returns over a lifetime.

Pupils say LPS Hybrid’s combination of remote and in-person classes has transformed their school experience

Two years ago, Ellie Ball could barely bring herself to attend school. Today, the 16-year-old is planning to take four A-levels and hopes to study astrolaw – “It’s basically space law,” she explains – at university.

The transformation happened largely through a screen.

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Degrees still mostly boost lifetime pay, thinktank says, but those completing creative qualifications may end up worse off

A quarter of UK graduates can expect to be financially worse off after going to university, especially those who take creative or performing arts degrees, according to new estimates by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

The research is based on the pay of students who...

Tory leader reprimanded by speaker for invective against minister and saying Starmer had ‘400 knives in his back’

Labour MPs have criticised Kemi Badenoch after a fractious prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, in which she accused the education secretary of being a “spiteful class warrior”.

In a rare move, Badenoch was chastised by the speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, in the chamber of the House of...

Listeners in the 17th and 18th centuries experienced music in a startlingly vivid – and physical – way. A fascinating academic project is wondering if we should let ourselves be much more moved, and get moving. Plus: a prime minister’s musical legacy?

Professor Bettina Varwig wants to get us moving – and feeling, and listening, but primarily moving. The University of Cambridge academic says...

Should I follow the man of my dreams to work in a club in Tehran? Or take up a place at an elite university? Thankfully, my dad gave me advice I’ve lived by ever since

My parents did not expect me to land a place at university. I was not considered academic enough. And anyway, I was a girl. Instead, I was being primed for marriage. My mother didn’t see anything wrong with this. Born in...

Many buildings are in use past their predicted lifespans, but even newer designs lack measures to beat heat

To see the UK’s failure to plan for the impacts of climate crisis, look no further than Beaconsfield primary school in west London – where a building more than 100 years old copes with extreme temperatures better than its neighbour, built less than 10 years ago.

“I’ve got two...

Unions say it is dangerous for schools to stay open in high temperatures

Hundreds of schools across the south of England and Wales are expected to close or vary their hours this week, in an effort to combat the extreme heat and conditions labelled as dangerous by education unions.

School leaders said they had warned parents about potential closures on Wednesday and Thursday, with many opting...

As temperatures increase significantly over the next few days, these are your rights.

Is it an alien? A dinosaur? Is it going to kill us all? Our writer hits Ashdown Forest for the Big One Hundred celebrations – and finds its magic enchanting new generations

The rolling idyll of heath and forest, spinney and stream that gave us the Heffalump, the Woozle and, most famously of all, Winnie-the-Pooh, has a new fantastical resident. Creeping through the bracken, making strange cooing...

As temperatures increase significantly over the next few days, these are your rights.

A weaker rupee and tougher immigration rules are pushing Indian students away from popular destinations like the US and UK.

Applicants forced to retake one of the world’s toughest admission tests after claims questions sold on Telegram

More than 2 million aspiring Indian doctors have sat one of the world’s toughest entrance exams for a second time after an alleged question paper leak forced authorities to scrap the original test results.

Students arriving at test centres on Sunday were greeted by airport-style...

You may be projecting your own school experience on to your daughter, but her needs are different and she has you to support her

I have two children aged eight and four. My eight-year-old is very bright. She’s in year 3 and doing year 6 maths. Her state school has large classes and limited resources, so I challenge her by doing fun maths at home. I wanted to try getting her into a grammar...

Why some argue the social media ban could have a profound affect on how young people gain new knowledge and the rest of us move around online

Temperatures are set to rise over the next few days, and children can be especially vulnerable – so read on for tips to protect them.

Temperatures are set to rise over the next few days, and children can be especially vulnerable – so read on for tips to protect them.

PeopleCert had been planning to cut about 400 jobs in £22m savings drive at training body it bought last year

The vocational training body City & Guilds has guaranteed that plans for mass compulsory redundancies and the offshoring of hundreds of UK jobs to Greece will no longer go ahead.

The proposal to remove about 400 UK roles was first reported by the Guardian in December as part of a £22m...