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...

State department move to cancel student visa interviews at all US embassies has shocked international scholars

International students in the US: are you considering studying elsewhere?

Students around the world who were gearing up to study in the United States this fall face growing uncertainty after the Trump administration temporarily halted student visa appointments this week.

On Tuesday, a...

We would like to hear from first and second year undergraduate students about their experiences of university teaching following the Easter break

We would like to hear from first and second year undergraduate students about their experiences of university teaching following the Easter break.

How much contact time with tutors do you have and how many lectures are you offered each week this term?...

Sizewell C says it will open the new college in September 2027.

Damo Buxton from Stoke-on-Trent says he works full time but is unable to afford to rent privately.

As activists against segregation, we’ve been told it’s about language, or behaviour, or choice. In reality, it’s pure discrimination

It may come as a surprise to many, but racial segregation in schools exists today in several countries in the EU. In Slovakia, more than 60% of Roma children attend schools where they are in the majority. Worse still: segregation is being rebranded, not...

Report finds children eat proportionally more processed meat than adults, and calls for eating of more fruit and vegetables

Guidance urging schools in England to serve children meat at least three times a week should be overhauled in order to increase the eating of vegetables and legumes, a leading charity has said.

A report published by the Food Foundation has found that children eat...

The Trump administration ordered US embassies to temporarily halt student visa appointments and to ramp up social media vetting.

Students were only given two hours to complete what should have been a three-hour physics test.

This minor figure from Great Expectations has sown panic at the GCSEs. Be honest: have you even heard of him?

It’s unwise to drill too deeply into the exact questions that come up in a GCSE paper. You can’t get a proper sense of proportion when: you most likely don’t know the answer the examiners are looking for, or anything about the subject; your kid can’t remember what they wrote...

The two women are vying to become the first female chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

Museum director says 138-year-old institution has worked to ‘build empathy for other people and the natural world’

It contains Egyptian mummies and is the only place outside Panama where tiny variable harlequin toads can be found. And now, the 138-year-old Manchester Museum has been named European Museum of the Year.

The institution won one of the most prestigious museum prizes in the world...

Unions say Arts University Bournemouth is planning to cut almost one in five of its workforce.

NASUWT appointed Matt Wrack unopposed, but Neil Butler has won right to run against former firefighters’ union leader

The NASUWT teaching union will hold its first contested leadership election for a generation after a challenger to Matt Wrack, the former firefighters’ union general secretary, emerged after Wrack had been appointed to the role unopposed.

Neil Butler, an NASUWT official who won...

Directive could severely delay visa processing and hurt universities that rely on foreign students for revenue

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International students in the US: are you considering studying elsewhere?

The Trump administration has ordered US embassies worldwide to immediately stop scheduling visa interviews for foreign students as it prepares to implement comprehensive social...

Music and modern languages will still be offered at Cardiff University, the vice chancellor says.

The Trump administration has canceled $100m in contracts as the US president escalates his war on elite universities

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The Donald Trump administration is set to order federal agencies to cancel all government contracts with Harvard University worth an estimated $100m, dramatically escalating the president’s assault against America’s most prestigious university.

A...

Business school professor’s dismissal is first time Harvard has removed a tenured instructor in about 80 years

A Harvard professor known for researching honesty before being accused of extensive data fraud has been fired, the first time the Ivy League institution has dismissed a tenured instructor in about 80 years.

Francesca Gino was put on administrative leave by the Harvard Business School...