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University graduates in the UK are facing the toughest job market since 2018 as employers pause hiring and use AI to cut costs, figures suggest.

The number of roles advertised for recent graduates is down 33% compared with last year and is at the lowest level in...

Government’s defence plans include 30% expansion of cadet forces, seen as critical to ‘understanding’ of defence

It is a balmy Thursday evening in north-east London and a dozen teenagers in combat fatigues are practising first aid on each other inside an army cadet training centre.

“Remember, never leave a casualty alone as they might freeze to death,” an instructor reminds them as a newer...

The newly rebuilt Catherine Infant School is one of the first in the UK to operate carbon neutrally.

Unions urge government to delay and revise changes to way schools are graded or headteachers will stop assisting inspectors

Headteachers are threatening to quit as part-time inspectors unless Ofsted delays and revises its changes to how schools and colleges are graded in England.

The warning is the latest blow to the inspection overhauls championed by Bridget Phillipson, the education...

Caitlin Morgan doubted if her degree was worth it as competition for graduate jobs hit record high.

Moorlands School in Leeds will close on 31 December, 127 years after it opened in 1898.

The University of Sheffield still plans cuts to jobs and courses despite a better financial outlook.

President’s proclamation had barred foreign students from studying at top university, citing national security concerns

A federal judge on Monday blocked Donald Trump’s administration from implementing his plan to bar foreign nationals from entering the United States to study at Harvard University.

US district judge Allison Burroughs in Boston issued an injunction barring Trump’s...

Speech and Language UK says some children can struggle to categorise and communicate how they feel.

The independent school opens a consultation process for staff in order to reduce headcount.

Linda Pitcher was so self-conscious after cancer surgery that removed part of her nose, she wouldn’t even answer the front door. Now, at 61, she’s a successful artist showing her work in public

For many months after skin cancer surgery, Linda Pitcher couldn’t leave the house. She avoided answering the front door, and if she had to go into her local village, she wore a hat and pulled it low....

New figures show demand for speech and language therapists is increasing in Scotland.

The council overspent by £54m on SEND provisions during the last academic year.

Labour makes funding centrepiece of its industrial strategy in bid to counter Reform’s surge in so-called red wall

The government will present a £275m investment in technical training and apprenticeships as the centrepiece of its long-awaited industrial strategy, in a direct challenge to Nigel Farage’s growing influence in England’s manufacturing heartlands.

The package, announced by the...

When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired

Jordan Lloyd had been praying for something big to happen. The 35-year-old screenwriter was quarantining in her apartment in North Hollywood in June 2020. Without any work projects to fill her days, she picked up the novel Roots, by Alex Haley, to...

Knowledge trumps popularity in the long haul of trying to be influential, researchers say

When it comes to social climbing, it’s not who you know, or how many people you know, it’s about knowing who knows whom, research suggests.

Experts studying social connections made by first-year university students say those who ended up with the most influence were not necessarily the most popular, but...

High-needs deficits kept off council books for two more years in England, but some say it prolongs financial pain

Cash-strapped councils in England will be hit with hundreds of millions of pounds in extra costs after the government delayed tackling the £5bn deficits spent supporting children and young people with special needs and disabilities.

Council leaders and experts said the two-year...

Nursery worker would not have been convicted of Genevieve Meehan’s manslaughter without footage, parents say

The weekend before Genevieve Meehan died was one of the best of her short life.

The nine-month-old with the beaming smile and emerald eyes was leaping through her milestones: she had taken her first tentative steps, hands clasped to her mother’s, and said her first word: “Dadda”....

The British and Irish Orthoptic Society is calling for screening to take place in all schools in England.

Student Loans Company figures show 10% jump in a year as individuals increase borrowing to meet cost of living

Students in England are finishing their degrees with government loans averaging £53,000, a jump of 10% in a year, as they increase their borrowing to meet the rising cost of living.

The Student Loans Company (SLC) has released figures showing individual loan balances were £5,000...

School leaders and teachers say findings on climate risks make for ‘grim reading’

Children in England face prolonged “lost learning” caused by extreme heat and flooding at school, according to research on the potential impact of the climate crisis on education.

School leaders and teachers said the scenarios published by the Department for Education were “grim reading” regarding the climate...