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• Guidance: Apply to join the social work early career framework

  25-09-2023 13:00 via gov.uk
  
  How organisations can get involved with the early adopter programme to help develop a new early career framework for child and family social workers.
  
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• Government to introduce academy trust inspections

  08-01-2026 11:51 via gov.uk
  New academy trust inspections to boost transparency for parents and strengthen outcomes for children
  
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• Study in the European Union

  08-01-2026 10:44 via gov.uk
  What you need to do if you're planning to start higher education in the EU.
  
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• Government modernises exam records with new app

  08-01-2026 01:01 via gov.uk
  Every year 11 student in England to be able to see their GCSE exam results on a new app from summer 2026.
  
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• Cambridge college to target elite private schools for student recruitment

  07-01-2026 19:58 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Trinity Hall’s new policy described as a ‘slap in the face’ for state-educated students A Cambridge college is to target the recruitment of students from elite private schools, interrupting decades of efforts to boost access for state-educated and disadvantaged pupils, the Guardian has learned.Fellows at Trinity Hall college last month approved a policy to approach a small group of private schools, including St Paul’s Girls, Eton and Winchester, to improve the
  
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• ‘For a moment, only that story matters’: my plan to reignite the all-consuming love of books

  07-01-2026 18:06 via theguardian.com
  Reading for pleasure rates are shockingly low in young people. So we should all get behind a new drive to turn them into avid readers. Why not start with books about art?A girl on the cusp of adolescence gazes down at a book. Her left hand rests against her flushed pink cheeks, while her right clutches the pages, ready to turn to find out what happens next. She has porcelain-like skin and golden hair seemingly full of air, executed in textures that contrast with the scratchy, loose marks that ma
  
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• Guidance: College and local authority accountability statements

  07-01-2026 16:55 via gov.uk
  College and local authority annual accountability statements and local needs duty information for 2026 to 2027.
  
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• Schools want help in 'lonely battle' against vapes

  07-01-2026 15:42 via bbc.com
  Schools say they are spending thousands on vape detectors as pupils struggle with addiction.
  
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• Correspondence: DfE update 7 January 2026

  07-01-2026 15:33 via gov.uk
  Latest information and actions from the Department for Education about funding, assurance and resource management, for academies, local authorities and further education providers.
  
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• Reception quality webinar series: autumn 2025

  07-01-2026 09:20 via gov.uk
  Series of webinars on RISE reception quality in schools led by senior education sector experts.
  
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• Record number of London pupils need Send support

  07-01-2026 06:45 via bbc.com
  The number of pupils needing Send support has risen by a third in a decade, government data shows.
  
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• Policy paper: Multi-agency child protection teams: regulation-making powers

  07-01-2026 01:00 via gov.uk
  Supporting safeguarding partners to discharge their local child protection arrangements.
  
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• Top union accuses Texas of targeting teachers over Charlie Kirk posts

  06-01-2026 21:54 via theguardian.com
  American Federation of Teachers sues over what it says are unconstitutional investigations into social media commentsA major Texas teachers’ union filed a federal lawsuit against the state on Tuesday challenging what it describes as unconstitutional investigations into hundreds of educators who posted comments on social media following the September killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.The Texas American Federation of Teachers, which represents approximately 66,000 public school e
  
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• The Guardian view on universities: Labour needs a clearer plan | Editorial

  06-01-2026 20:24 via theguardian.com
  Ministers promised a ‘change of approach’, but their new tax could tip weaker institutions over the edgeEducation opens doors, and the expansion of higher education begun under New Labour means that millions of young people who would not previously have gone from school to university have now done so. From 336,000 places accepted in 1997, the total rose by 68% to 563,000 in 2022. In last year’s student experience survey, just 11% of undergraduates said that they regretted their
  
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• Fresh snow and ice warnings as Storm Goretti approaches UK

  06-01-2026 20:18 via bbc.com
  Hundreds of schools have been closed due to the snow and cold temperatures.
  
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• Many schools don’t think students can read full novels any more. That’s a tragedy | Margaret Sullivan

  06-01-2026 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Increasingly, teens are given only parts of books, and they often read not in print but on school-issued laptopsReading fiction has been such a joy for me that my heart broke a little to learn recently that many schools no longer assign full books to high school students.Rather, teens are given excerpts of books, and they often read them not in print but on school-issued laptops, according to a survey of 2,000 teachers, students and parents by the New York Times.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian U
  
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• It’s not easy being an English northerner surrounded by southerners. Here’s how we survive | Robyn Vinter

  06-01-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  University undergraduates are forming northern societies, but in other circumstances we find different ways to be ourselvesOf course they weren’t being mean, but each time my university friends jokingly echoed my Leeds-accented “no” with a noise that is perhaps best approximated as “nerhhh”, I found myself undergoing elocution conditioning. Within a year, the identifying characteristics of my accent had gone, replaced with a sort of unplaceable, vaguely northern voi
  
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• 'Teachers were bringing in food for hungry kids'

  06-01-2026 08:01 via bbc.com
  Rethink Food is helping to fund initiatives to cut hunger in schools across Leeds.
  
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• The Score by C Thi Nguyen review – a brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life

  06-01-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  From Duolingo to GDP, how an obsession with keeping score can subtly undermine human flourishingTwo years ago, I started learning Japanese on Duolingo. At first, the daily accrual of vocabulary was fun. Every lesson earned me experience points – a little reward that measured and reinforced my progress.But something odd happened. Over time, my focus shifted. As I climbed the weekly leaderboards, I found myself favouring lessons that offered the most points for the least effort. Things came
  
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• Cyber attack shuts school for a few days

  05-01-2026 22:07 via bbc.com
  Higham Lane School, part of Central England Academy Trust, said it will stay shut until Wednesday.
  
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• Generation AI: fears of ‘social divide’ unless all children learn computing skills

  05-01-2026 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Children are growing up as AI natives and experts say computing skills should be on par with reading and writingIn a Cambridge classroom, Joseph, 10, trained his AI model to discern between drawings of apples and drawings of smiles.“AI gets lots of things wrong,” he said, as it mistakenly identified a fruit as a face. He set about retraining it and, in a flash, he had it back on track – instinctively understanding the inner nature of artificial intelligence and machine learning
  
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• Form: Advanced learner loans facility requests

  05-01-2026 13:15 via gov.uk
  Use the form to submit requests for a new facility or loans bursary for funding year 2025 to 2026.
  
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• Complete the Care to Learn and 16 to 19 Bursary Fund for defined vulnerable groups funding claim

  05-01-2026 13:10 via gov.uk
  How Department for Education (DfE) funded 16 to 19 providers can make a funding claim for these schemes
  
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• Teaching internships programme: summer 2026, 2027 and 2028

  05-01-2026 11:00 via gov.uk
  Funding for schools to offer paid internships to potential teachers in chemistry, computing, design and technology, maths, modern foreign languages and physics.
  
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• ‘Oh my gosh, they’re all from London and Cambridge’: York University’s northerners fight back

  04-01-2026 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Lucy Morville, from Burnley, thought most students would be from the north and felt ‘culture shock’ surrounded by southernersLike many students from the north, Lucy Morville says she felt “culture shock” at being surrounded by southerners when she arrived at university. But she said the shock was even greater because it wasn’t what she expected when she enrolled at the University of York.“I hadn’t travelled much down south before university, and I was li
  
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• Price increase on school meals will 'acutely' affect children in poverty

  04-01-2026 07:39 via bbc.com
  The cost of a school dinner for primary and special school pupils will go up by 50p from £2.60 to £3.10.
  
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• UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice-chancellor

  03-01-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Prof Shitij Kapur says there are too many graduates and degree is now just a ‘visa’ to enter professional worldThe UK now has a “surfeit” of graduates and students must accept that a university degree is no longer a “passport to social mobility”, a leading vice-chancellor has argued.Prof Shitij Kapur, the head of King’s College London, said the days when universities could promise that their graduates were certain to get good jobs are over, in an era whe
  
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• The Guardian view on care leavers: responsibility for looked-after children does not end at 18 | Editorial

  02-01-2026 19:05 via theguardian.com
  Free prescriptions and eye tests ought to help these young adults stay healthy. They also signal the state’s ongoing roleThe outcomes for children who grow up in care are shocking. A vital part of the welfare state, which exists to promote the safety and wellbeing of highly vulnerable young people, is falling short in health, education and employment terms. They have a 62% higher chance of dying before the age of 75 than their peers, and are four times as likely to have a criminal convicti
  
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• Impact over income: a striking number of gen Zers are becoming teachers

  02-01-2026 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Despite longstanding concerns over pay and conditions, more young graduates are entering the classroomJoseph Curatolo was studying architecture four years ago when he took a summer job, teaching music to middle school students. When he told them he might leave the program to focus on his studies, he said, they burst into tears.“The fact that I had such an impact on these kids led me to reconsider my career,” said Curatolo, 22. He is now a seventh- and eighth-grade social studies teac
  
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• Days left to choose preferred primary school

  02-01-2026 07:03 via bbc.com
  The date by which people need to apply is 15 January - late applications can be less successful.
  
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