More than a quarter of students at The London Academy of Excellence are offered places at Oxford and Cambridge universities.

Ministers say UK universities have become a “prime target for foreign states and hostile actors”.

By freezing thresholds, Labour is quietly loading the cost of public services on to young graduates, while insisting it has not raised taxes at all

The personal finance expert Martin Lewis upbraided the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, for freezing the threshold at which millions of graduates repay their loans, saying that this was treating student debts like tax. He was right, and Ms Reeves’s...

Young people are hungering for meaning. A lack of spiritual education in childhood can reverberate across a lifetime

Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life

As a parent, I want nothing more than for my children to grow into healthy, happy, purposeful human beings. Yet all around me – in classrooms, in conversation and in alarming...

Move by Pete Hegseth marks latest escalation by Trump administration against the Ivy League school

The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has said the Pentagon is ending all military training, fellowships and certificate programs with Harvard University, marking the Trump administration’s latest escalation against the Ivy League school.

“The @DeptWar is formally ending ALL Professional...

Campaigners have criticised the terms of loans that were issued in England and still exist in Wales.

Teachers, Ofsted and unions will study how new report cards affect school leaders’ wellbeing.

As their debts rise, graduates reveal how loans are reshaping careers, finances and faith in the system

Student loans: why is Martin Lewis clashing with Rachel Reeves?

Growing anger over the plight of millions of graduates saddled with ballooning student loan debts is threatening to develop into a fresh crisis for the government, with Martin Lewis leading the demands for an urgent rethink.

The...

The current situation in England and Wales is akin to generational warfare – Martin Lewis is right when he takes ministers to task

As someone who receives close to the maximum student loan from the government each year, I try my best not to think too hard about the crushing financial burden I am going to carry into my postgrad years. After all, for those of us who need a degree to enter their...

A cross-party group calls on the government to “align funding to need”, as ministers consider SEND reforms.

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.

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

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.

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.