
Overseas student levy sparks ‘deep concern’
The levy will pay for maintenance grants, but North East universities say there will be challenges.
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The levy will pay for maintenance grants, but North East universities say there will be challenges.

Parents say use of isolation room damages mental health and children’s learning
One in 12 secondary pupils put in isolation rooms at least once a week, study finds
Max was 11 and had just started his new secondary school when he was first put into isolation. He had asked to use the toilet between lessons, which was not ordinarily allowed, and was told to go quickly.
“He knew he wasn’t...

Children with special educational needs more than twice as likely to be put in isolation, say Manchester researchers
‘Publicly humiliated’: parents describe difficulty of children’s isolation at school
One in 12 secondary pupils report being put into school isolation rooms at least once a week where they often spend in excess of eight hours, missing more than a full day of lessons, according to...

The Institute for Public Policy Research says there should be more comprehensive support for Send students in mainstream schools.

School joins University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Brown in bowing to White House to restore funding
The University of Virginia (UVA) has become the latest school to agree to the Trump administration’s demands concerning discrimination in admissions and hiring following significant pressure from the justice department.
The deal, which the department announced on Wednesday, comes after the...

Family seeks tutor from ‘socially appropriate background’ who can provide infant with ‘comprehensive British cultural environment’
Getting paid £180,000 a year to tutor a single child might sound like a dream job but there’s a catch: the child is only one-year-old and you need to get him into Eton.
A wealthy family near London is “searching for a tutor to provide a comprehensive British...

The government says it needs more time to test proposals for the special educational needs system.

The DfE has announced it will raise tuition fees every year, and will bring in new V-levels after GCSEs.

School closures were the only option, but Covid lockdowns went too far – the fine line Boris Johnson treaded.

The former PM says lockdown rules “probably did go too far” and says children could have been exempted.

Bridget Phillipson confirmed the plans for the next two years, with fees to increase automatically after that.

Ministers say new vocational courses will simplify the “confusing” options students have after GCSEs.

The BBC has spoken to students choosing Bulgaria due to UK’s strict cap on medical school places.

Joe Swash tells the BBC about his experiences of being a young dad and says more support is needed.

Many schools are extending autumn breaks, but what do parents, teachers and experts think?

Parents in West Yorkshire say they are left with little help after their children are diagnosed.

The BBC is following the lives of final-year students at Gloucestershire’s National Star College.

The Education Authority is trying to trace the pupils as it is not clear what school they now go to.

The council plans to close Monkseaton Middle School and merge others to tackle falling pupil numbers.

A report published today says staff and pupils may be at risk due to the maintenance backlog.

The couple spent £30,000 in legal costs after being taken to court by the Education Authority.