British government approves arrival of around 40 students with funded scholarships, pending Israeli approval.

The charm is intoxicating at first. But wait till their expensive kit is mired in mud, the blazer takes on a flammable sheen and the PE kit stinks up the house

The first time you put your kid in school uniform, there’s an intoxicating charm to the moment. There he is, your precious firstborn, and you’ve dressed him up like a grown-assed man who’s managing the fanciest restaurant on a very...

Nannies stay home and schools provide transport as Trump takes over policing and Ice rounds up immigrants

Early Tuesday morning, as parents went to drop off their young children at a bilingual childcare center in north-west Washington DC, they received a message from the administrator saying that unmarked cars were parked directly outside.

Shortly after 8am, federal agents in tactical vests...

Horror stories about detainments at the border have also soured some from visiting during Trump’s second term

Keith Serry was set to bring a show to New York City’s Fringe festival this year, but pulled the plug a few weeks out. After 35 years of traveling to the United States, he says he no longer feels safe making the trip.

“The fact that we’re being evaluated for our opinions entering a...

Pleasance Dome, EdinburghKate Ireland’s warmly delivered one-woman show considers the pressures of productivity, rules and rewards at school and beyond

She has been given 60 minutes out of her audience’s day and Kate Ireland won’t waste them, she promises. Her show riffs on the Friday afternoon reward for schoolchildren of an hour’s golden time – but only for those who have earned it by...

National Retail Federation estimates families are budgeting an average of nearly $875 for the year for shopping

Summer is drawing to a close and as parents and children get ready for a new school year, their first lesson will be in economics.

Most of Donald Trump’s tariffs went into effect at the beginning of August. We are still waiting on a deal with China. But with school supplies so...

The effects of a rightwing campaign to remake American higher education are fueling fear and anxiety, but advocates say they have plans to fight back

Students and faculty heading back to US colleges and universities from summer break are returning to bruised institutions reeling from the Trump administration’s unprecedented campaign to bend higher education to its ideological will, and are...

For all the talk of addressing the problem, things have got worse. Which is criminal when there is so much we could do

Lots of people told me to not study languages – including my own (monolingual) dad. “You’re never going to be as fluent as a native speaker,” I remember him saying when I was deciding on my university degree. “Why bother?”

A little more than a decade later, I’ve collected a...

Girls are still more likely to pass GCSEs, but why is the gender gap now the lowest on record?

Oral assessments, tightened security and faster marking could result as use of AI itself becomes core digital skill

Oral assessments, more security checks and speedier marking are all on the cards as generative artificial intelligence (AI) could transform exams for the next generation of students.

As the 2025 exam season draws to a close with GCSE students picking up their results on Thursday,...

Experts talk of ‘resit crisis’ as number accounts for nearly a quarter of maths and English entries, an all-time high

This year’s GCSE results in England delivered something that teachers and policymakers had craved in recent years: stability, at least for most 16-year-olds.

Covid and its aftermath had sent GCSE results seesawing until this summer, when results were more similar to the previous...

Schools deserve praise, but fresh ideas are needed to shrink the attainment gap between rich and poor areas

Pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have overcome the obstacles placed in their way by the Covid pandemic to a striking degree. The cohort who received their GCSE results on Thursday did not take Sats at the end of primary school. Their crucial transition to secondary education...

With pupils resitting Maths and English GCSEs at an all-time high, and fewer than a fifth of those passing, is the system broken?

The GCSE pass rate has fallen again this year. Here’s what you need to know.

More than 136,000 studied español for this year’s exams, as holidays and La Liga football help increase its appeal

Despite a once bitter rivalry that dates to before the Spanish Armada in 1588, pupils in England are studying español in greater numbers than ever before, with it overtaking French as the most popular language for GCSEs.

The rise of Spanish in schools has long been predicted,...

Wales’s overpass rate of 62.5% is behind England’s 67.1% – although there were many success stories at the Llynfi valley secondary

GCSE results: pupils in England bounce back from pandemic as top grades rise

Even though Mia Headington found out she had dyslexia the day before her first GCSE exam, the diagnosis didn’t faze her. Opening her results envelope on Thursday morning, the 16-year-old...

Republicans once championed the policy on economic grounds. Undoing it is disrupting students’ lives and sowing confusion on campuses

Ximena had a plan.

The 18-year-old from Houston was going to start college in the fall at the University of Texas at Tyler, where she had been awarded $10,000 a year in scholarships. That, she hoped, would set her up for her dream: a PhD in chemistry, followed by...

Some parents offer money and gifts ahead of exams results – but does the promise of a reward work?

Campaigners said the clothing grant should be available to all parents who claim Universal Credit.

Mahnoor Cheema, from Slough, said she had done less studying than the average student.

Three young people tell the BBC what support they would have liked during their recent results days.