Military personnel receive a private education allowance to avoid lessons in Welsh in state schools.

Hackers are more likely to target educational institutions than private businesses, government survey shows

When hackers attacked UK nurseries last month and published children’s data online, they were accused of hitting a new low.

But the broader education sector is well used to being a target.

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Marie Lally says children are turning up at the school gates “more focused”.

VAT on school fees has led to a rise in overseas interest and even relocations as UK fees have jumped by as much as 22.6%

Wealthy British parents are turning to boarding schools in continental Europe as rising private school fees push families to look for cheaper options abroad.

German and Swiss institutions have reported rises in the number of queries from British parents who face higher fees...

New figures reveal mums in England see their earnings drop after having a first, second and third child.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies says more than 200,000 extra children will need Send support by 2029.

The inquest following the death of Paloma Shemirani raises the question of how to prevent young people from health misinformation

Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech

Any California universities that sign the Trump administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” will “instantly” lose their state funding, California governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement.

The Trump administration on Wednesday offered nine prominent...

Children’s commissioner during pandemic says government failed children and blames lockdowns for explosion in vulnerability among young

The government should apologise to children for the damaging mistakes and policy errors it committed during the pandemic, the former children’s commissioner for England has told the Covid-19 inquiry.

Giving evidence to the inquiry’s public hearing, Anne...

Anne Longfield says ministers at the time prioritised opening pubs and theme parks before schools.

Brown and MIT among nine schools told to back conservative views or risk losing federal support, sparking free speech fears

Donald Trump is offering nine top universities a deal in which they would agree to advance conservative ideas on their campuses and commit to a range of other conditions in exchange for federal funding.

The extraordinary offer, which was sent out from the White House on...

Lindsay Brown, whose sister was a victim of serial killer Peter Tobin, now teaches forensics.

The hackers tell the BBC they are sorry for their actions – but experts say it’s a practical rather than moral move.

Martyn Groucutt said school attendance in Monmouthshire had not recovered to pre-pandemic levels.

Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give was taken off year 10 reading list at Budmouth Academy after parent complained

A bestselling black American author has condemned a Dorset school’s decision to drop her critically acclaimed novel from a reading list.

Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give was removed from Budmouth Academy’s year 10 reading list after a complaint from a parent.

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Hundreds of students accepted on courses facing costs and even deportation after being told to defer studies until 2026

Hundreds of international students accepted on courses by University College London have been left in limbo and facing thousands of pounds in costs, after the university admitted it had run out of places just days before many were due to start.

About 200 students from China...

Report from Scholars at Risk counts some 40 attacks against academic freedom in the US in the first half of 2025

A global academic freedom group has warned that the Trump administration’s assault on universities is turning the US into a “model for how to dismantle” academic freedom.

“We are witnessing an unprecedented situation – really as far as I can tell in history – where a global...

US president says ‘Linda is finishing up the details’ but not clear whether university ready to announce agreement

Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his administration had reached a deal with Harvard and that the school would pay $500m to settle the dispute between the federal government and the university.

“Linda is finishing up the final details,” Trump told reporters at an event in the...

Sir Keir Starmer says the Blair-era ambition of seeing half of young people in university is not “right for our times”.

The PM’s challenge it to make vocational options as attractive to parents and young people as higher eduction

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Keir Starmer has joined a long line of ministers and prime ministers who have called time on Tony Blair’s ambition for half of the nation’s young people to go on to higher education.

Rishi Sunak, Gavin Williamson and now Starmer have all declared an end...

It wasn’t quite what I was expecting from my daughter’s A-level geography class, but I had plenty of ideas

If you happen to have children of an age to willingly study geography, you’ll know that it’s the topic with all the best field trips. They’re constantly going somewhere. That place is rarely cool to begin with, and they zone in on the least cool thing about it, so if they go to the...