Deb Hadden runs drop-off sessions, where children can play and learn with each other.

The government says schools needing “intensive support” will receive “one-to-one sessions”.

Other countries benefit from the Trump brain drain as administration wages war on academia and research

Wali Malik no longer has to worry that a rightwing bureaucrat – or influencer – will decide his research is “woke”.

He doesn’t have to fear government retaliation for speaking his mind or following the science wherever it may lead. And like others who have left a polarized United States for...

Relationships often change after children. Here are ways to help get your partnership back on track.

It comes days after the Local Government Association warned that eight in 10 English councils would face bankruptcy, if they had to honour deficits.

Cap-busting tax hike will be embarrassing for the party, which has made low council tax a priority

Reform-led Worcestershire county council is likely to issue England’s largest council tax rise this April after it was given special permission by the government to increase it by up to 9%.

Worcestershire is one of a handful of authorities whose requests to be allowed to increase local rates above...

Thousands walk out after talks with district failed to reach agreement on wages, healthcare and resources for students with special needs

About 6,000 public schoolteachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday, the first public schoolteachers strike in the city in nearly 50 years.

The strike comes after teachers and the district failed to reach an agreement over higher wages, health...

Georgia Gould reassures parents that no child will be asked to leave school or have levels of assistance removed

Children with special needs will not lose their places at special schools or current levels of assistance, an education minister has told parents anxious that the government would strip away their child’s support.

Facing questions at an online forum, part of the Department for...

A disciplinary panel hears how the teacher reacted after having liquid sprayed in his face.

Former head teacher Michelle Stone was attacked by a student at a Hampshire special school.

More than a quarter of students at The London Academy of Excellence are offered places at Oxford and Cambridge universities.

Ministers say UK universities have become a “prime target for foreign states and hostile actors”.

By freezing thresholds, Labour is quietly loading the cost of public services on to young graduates, while insisting it has not raised taxes at all

The personal finance expert Martin Lewis upbraided the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, for freezing the threshold at which millions of graduates repay their loans, saying that this was treating student debts like tax. He was right, and Ms Reeves’s...

Young people are hungering for meaning. A lack of spiritual education in childhood can reverberate across a lifetime

Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life

As a parent, I want nothing more than for my children to grow into healthy, happy, purposeful human beings. Yet all around me – in classrooms, in conversation and in alarming...

Move by Pete Hegseth marks latest escalation by Trump administration against the Ivy League school

The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has said the Pentagon is ending all military training, fellowships and certificate programs with Harvard University, marking the Trump administration’s latest escalation against the Ivy League school.

“The @DeptWar is formally ending ALL Professional...

Campaigners have criticised the terms of loans that were issued in England and still exist in Wales.

Teachers, Ofsted and unions will study how new report cards affect school leaders’ wellbeing.

As their debts rise, graduates reveal how loans are reshaping careers, finances and faith in the system

Student loans: why is Martin Lewis clashing with Rachel Reeves?

Growing anger over the plight of millions of graduates saddled with ballooning student loan debts is threatening to develop into a fresh crisis for the government, with Martin Lewis leading the demands for an urgent rethink.

The...

The current situation in England and Wales is akin to generational warfare – Martin Lewis is right when he takes ministers to task

As someone who receives close to the maximum student loan from the government each year, I try my best not to think too hard about the crushing financial burden I am going to carry into my postgrad years. After all, for those of us who need a degree to enter their...

A cross-party group calls on the government to “align funding to need”, as ministers consider SEND reforms.

Councils call on ministers to write off special educational needs and disability deficits that are predicted to reach £14bn in 2028

Eight in 10 English local authorities will be in effect bankrupted by rising special educational needs spending unless the government introduces significant reforms to the system, council leaders have said.

Councils have called on ministers to write off special...