Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails.

One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans...

Tory leader says proposal would ‘protect interests of taxpayers and students’ but university representatives say it is ‘economically illiterate’

Good morning. Kemi Badenoch is giving her first speech a Conservative party conference as leader. There are many people who assume it will be her last.

The Tories face an existential challenge from Reform UK. While Badenoch has tried to differntiate...

Three families share the realisations that enabled them to declutter and transform their homes and lives.

March through London and gatherings in Glasgow and Edinburgh proceed despite prime minister’s pleas

Pro-Palestine protesters in the UK have held demonstrations on the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks in Israel, despite pleas by Keir Starmer to cancel the “un-British” rallies.

The prime minister said the events showed “little respect for others” while Bridget Phillipson, the...

The prime minister says it is “un-British” to hold pro-Palestinian protests on the second anniversary of Hamas’s attacks on Israel.

A mum and dad have been fined, despite spending up to £70 per week trying to get daughter to school, a court heard.

The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse

Sticks are bad, but sometimes corruption through carrots is worse. The Trump administration – after having brutally cut federal funding earlier this year – is now trying to make nine universities an offer that they seemingly cannot refuse. In exchange for preferential treatment in funding and...

Hundreds of students have started lectures at the new campus, which is 3,712 miles from Cardiff.

Jon Coles tells of shock at lack of planning by government and says it was ‘perfectly clear’ schools would likely close

The leader of one of the largest academy trusts in England has described the Department for Education’s failure to do any planning for school closures before lockdown in March 2020 as “an extraordinary dereliction of duty”.

Jon Coles, the chief executive of the United Learning...

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Once a month without fail I decide to give up on all my goals and ambitions. “There’s just no point,” I sigh to my mother, who smiles and asks what day of my cycle I’m on. I grumble back, insisting it has nothing to do with...

I’ve delivered for tens of thousands of schoolchildren, lifting them out of poverty – as deputy leader I can deliver for all

Bridget Phillipson is the education secretary

Last week, conference showed the best of the Labour party: our collective strength, united, and with purpose. Our message to the British public was clear: that we offer decency, not decline, and that we’re determined to...

In an eye-opening drama class, Miss Smith taught me that rage didn’t only belong to men

We always knew it was coming. There were signs we’d learned to read: a change in atmosphere, the sound of the fridge door opening, wine glugging into a glass. And then it would arrive. My stepfather’s anger filled the house, even the rooms he wasn’t in. We breathed it in and out silently, waiting for...

Hundreds of students with promised places had been left in limbo after university exceeded its visa allocations

Hundreds of international students will be able to take up their promised places after negotiations between the Home Office and University College London ended with the government granting extra visas.

Hundreds of students, many from China, had been left in limbo after UCL...

The Department of Education is considering removing AS-levels and a return to a two-year A-level course.

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