Birth rates have dropped from 2,000 a year to around 1,400 in the last decade, a council says.

We’d like to hear from graduates about how they’re faring with paying back student loans. Have you experienced large increases in outstanding debt?

In last year’s budget Rachel Reeves froze the salary threshold for plan 2 loan repayments for three years from April 2027 – which means borrowers will have to pay even more towards their student loans as they benefit from pay rises.

Student finance...

George Mitchell chaired the talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.

Exclusive: Charities and experts fear changes to special needs education in England may weaken legal protections

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Ministers have been warned that any dilution of legal rights for disabled children and their families would cross “red lines”, as the government prepares substantial changes to special education needs and disabilities (Send) provision in England.

The...

Government has ‘learned lesson’ of botched welfare overhauls but MPs say they will not back cost-saving measures

Ministers have “learned the lesson” of botched welfare changes and are on a sustained lobbying blitz of Labour MPs over an overhaul of special educational needs, Labour MPs told the Guardian, as they said they would not back measures aimed at saving money.

The changes will raise the...

Labour’s changes to the student loan system have turned frustration into full-blown fury, which its opponents are likely to reap at the ballot box

Student loans: ‘My debt rose £20,000 to £77,000 even though I’m paying’

“It is not right that people who don’t go to university are having to bear all the cost for others to do so,” Rachel Reeves remarked this week, amid the increasingly angry...

Some families have lost up to £10,000 after being duped into sending money to fraudsters’ bank accounts

Foreign students attending independent schools in the UK are being targeted by fraudsters seeking to intercept their fee payments, according to new research.

Some families have lost up to £10,000 after being duped into sending money to the bank account of a criminal, after receiving a fake...

The chancellor’s defence comes after Martin Lewis called her freeze on student loans “not a moral thing”.

Jacob Leland, who taught Russian, jailed for three years for sexually assaulting student on school trip

The headteacher of Eton College has apologised and said he was “appalled” after a former teacher was jailed for sexually assaulting a pupil.

Jacob Leland, who taught Russian, was jailed on Friday for three years and three months for sexually assaulting one of his students during a school...

The House of Lords is soon due to debate whether to introduce a legal ban on smartphones in schools.

The countries that invest in youth now will be the ones that define global innovation in the coming years

Monica Geingos is founder of Leadership Lab Yetu and former first lady of Namibia

For the first time in our history, more than 70% of Africans are under the age of 30. This, along with entrenched inequalities, poverty, unemployment and socioeconomic fault lines, is reshaping how our...

Changes to England’s school system say on-site suspensions should be used for non-violent behaviour.

Major powers have renewed diplomatic links while others seek deals to deport migrants. And all the while gender repression is getting worse

Afghanistan’s Taliban government has now issued its most extreme edict yet. It is already the only regime in the world where girls are excluded from secondary education. Now it has gone further, debarring all Afghan women from any contact with schools or...

New government data shows that fines for term-time holidays have risen again in the last academic year.

Ceredigion council said it was based on research linking excessive smartphone use to anxiety and depression.

More than 800 school staff have been on strike across 20 schools in the West Midlands.

The school was inspected after concerns were raised over its decision to postpone an MP’s visit.

Geography student Ethan Brown should have been awarded a 2:1 degree but was wrongly told he could not graduate.

Javed Love is understood to be the first teacher in Northern Ireland in at least a decade to take the action.

Mark Billings hopes to inspire his pupils, and even beat Giant in a new challenge on the BBC show.

Jacob Collier, speaking at the launch of BBC Get Singing, says music “embeds confidence” in young people.