Councils call on ministers to write off special educational needs and disability deficits that are predicted to reach £14bn in 2028

Eight in 10 English local authorities will be in effect bankrupted by rising special educational needs spending unless the government introduces significant reforms to the system, council leaders have said.

Councils have called on ministers to write off special...

The government is due to publish plans to reform the special educational needs system in early 2026.

Operator Merlin Entertainments said the pass was no longer working as intended because of increasing demand.

Surrey County Council puts forward proposals to reduce the speed limit near schools.

Campaigners say they appreciate attempt to use Cornish but mistake points to need for more access to language

Shoppers in Cornwall could have been forgiven for feeling bemused after a supermarket put up bilingual signs – in Welsh.

A branch of Tesco in Helston – about 200 miles from south Wales by road – pointed shoppers towards pysgod, which is Welsh, not Cornish, for fish. It also labelled...

Formal approval given for new university group to operate from August, with both institutions keeping their names

The universities of Greenwich and Kent have confirmed they have been given formal approval to merge into the UK’s first “super-university”.

The merged entity will be the third-largest higher education institution in the UK, the universities said, and is consulting on being named the...

The Scottish Charity Regulator said Fernhill School in Rutherglen had not submitted accounts for years.

When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degrees

The seaside city of Southend-on-Sea, on England’s east coast, looks grey on a winter afternoon in term-time. Its cobbled high street, bordering the university campus, is sparsely populated...

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.

This week, from 2018: snowflake students have become the target of a new rightwing crusade. But exaggerated claims of censorship reveal a deeper anxiety at the core of modern conservatism

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The move comes just weeks after peers supported legislation to ban under-16s in the UK from social media.

The Department of Education plans will be presented to MLAs for approval.

Data comes as government prepares to publish plans to overhaul Send system in England

One in six autistic pupils have not been to school at all since the start of this academic year, according to a new survey which found that mental health issues were often behind high levels of school absence.

Nearly half (45%) of the parents and children who responded to the UK-wide survey by the Ambitious...

The University of Sussex says the watchdog overstepped its legal powers in imposing the fine last year.

Magdalen College School says the move will “enrich” its community for “generations to come”.

The former Little Mix star reveals why she wanted to let cameras in to document her pregnancy journey.

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

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

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

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

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

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