A deputy head teacher wrote to the Welsh government expressing concerns about behaviour at the school.

Despite government efforts, armed groups control many remote areas. Now researchers are caught in the crosshairs

Raul*, a biologist from Quito, has been leading conservation projects in the Chocó rainforest in north-east Ecuador for more than 20 years. It has not been easy, he says, recalling the threats he has received over the years for reporting illegal hunters and loggers in reserves, but...

A triangle and a rectangle walked into a pub

Today’s two questions test your geometrical smarts. The first is about a triangle, the second about a square.

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Dozens of children in one county have been sent to unaccredited online schools at a cost of more than £400,000.

Only states where enrolments to government schools grew in 2024 were Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia – all by less than 2%

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The proportion of students enrolled in public schools has fallen to another record low, new data shows, placing Australia at risk of a “full...

Kevin Flanagan, headteacher at Pensby High School, said Keith and Stephanie Critchley harassed him in person and online

A secondary school headteacher has been paid damages in the settlement of a legal claim against abusive parents who he alleged launched a campaign of harassment against him, including turning up at his family home and verbally abusing him at the school gates.

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Exclusive: Vice-chancellors say Office for Students’ plans for next five years will financially harm smaller institutions

University leaders have urged England’s higher education regulator to rethink its priorities, saying that smaller institutions will be financially harmed by increasing costs of its bureaucracy.

The Office for Students (OfS), the regulator, already charges smaller...

Martyn Oliver says change in working habits since pandemic has led to a shift in attitudes among pupils in England

School attendance rates are being affected by parents working from home after the pandemic, the head of Ofsted has said.

The chief inspector of the schools watchdog in England, Martyn Oliver, told the Sunday Times that the widespread change in working habits after the pandemic had...

Wales will be at an “economic disadvantage” if it doesn’t increase student numbers, sector warns.

Parent Lisa from Hassocks says the changes should not apply to those already in private schools.

We join volunteers in Bristol as they hand out DNA test kits they say can empower victims and deter perpetrators … and hear from critics who call the project reckless

On a bitingly cold Tuesday, ambassadors dressed in bright orange sweatshirts hand out self-swab rape kits and packets of chocolates from a paddling pool to fellow Bristol University students moving between lectures. “Can I take...

Higher tuition costs have already been ‘wiped out’ by government tax hikes, critics claim

A fall in international students applying for visas risks prolonging the existential threat facing some of England’s universities, sources in higher education say, amid warnings that an increase in tuition fees has already been “wiped out” by the government’s tax rises.

Despite the decision by ministers to...

Parents will soon find out which schools their children will be attending from September this year.

Tilly Gerra requires support to study at university, but says she still faces “immense difficulties”.

Pupil numbers are set to fall by 90,000 by 2040, but ministers want to maintain school staffing.

The campaign against Claudine Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, has become a blueprint increasingly wielded against women and scholars of color

Jo Boaler, a professor of mathematics education at Stanford University, is not new to criticism of her work turning ugly. Boaler champions a reformist approach to teaching maths, arguing that strategies that emphasise reasoning over memorisation...