The transition year led Paul Mescal and Cillian Murphy to become actors – and has had similarly seismic affects on thousands of secondary school students. Should other countries follow suit?

‘If you know your Flann O’Brien, you’ll know that bike maintenance and philosophy go arse-on-saddle in this country,” Niall Hare, the 63-year-old headteacher at Kishoge community college in Dublin,...

Wolsingham school’s carbon-cutting event had been planned by pupils, but parents raised concerns

A school has U-turned on a student-led plan to turn the heating off for a “blue nose” climate action day after concerns were raised by parents.

The heating was due to be turned off at Wolsingham school, County Durham, on Friday but the plan has now been postponed until the summer term of next year...

Adriana Brownlee said she quit university to pursue mountaineering and is now a record-breaker.

A law to ban smartphones in schools will be called for under a private member’s bill on Wednesday.

Support services are failing to meet high demand, says the Children’s Commissioner for England.

Judges say unfairly dismissed academic David Miller’s views on Israel should be protected by antidiscrimination laws

The belief that Israel’s actions amount to apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide are “worthy of respect in a democratic society”, an employment tribunal has concluded in a landmark decision.

In February the tribunal ruled that Prof David Miller was unfairly discriminated...

The university says a member of staff was suspended following “a number of serious allegations”.

Summer riots were a consequence of relegating the subject to just one month, says Black Curriculum founder

Black history must be made mandatory in England to counter hatred and help prevent racist riots, a leading campaigner says.

Lavinya Stennett, who founded the Black Curriculum, warned of the real risks of black history and a diverse curriculum being relegated to just one month, or only...

SRUC has awarded degrees before, but until now these have been validated through universities.

Faith school Emmanuel House says it will have to pass on fee increases to parents.

And an intersection of squares

Today’s first puzzle was penned by Randall Munroe, cartoonist of the webcomic xkcd and author of the bestselling book What If?

For the (surely) very few readers who have never heard of him, Munroe, a former NASA roboticist, is probably the world’s premier science humorist.

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New climate network will teach trainee doctors more about heatstroke, dengue and malaria and role of global warming in health

Mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and malaria will become a bigger part of the curriculum at medical schools across Europe in the face of the climate crisis.

Future doctors will also have more training on how to recognise and treat heatstroke, and be expected to...

Families are recording the amount and types of adverts they see on the school run.

Local government experts say councils made all the “easy cuts” years ago and still face shortfalls.

Critics say courses are being closed that played a leading role in addressing racial disparities in higher education

Black scholarship in the UK risks being wiped out due to redundancies and course closures, leading academics have warned.

Universities in England are engulfed in a financial crisis and have in response implemented a number of cost-cutting measures.

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Just 62 of 513 schools selected for rebuilds in England have construction contracts, the BBC has found.

The 150-year-old school has faced issues with black mould, mushrooms and water ingress from the roof.

How should we rethink England’s curriculum and assessment?