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• University students facing course 'cold spots' as enrolments fall

  16-12-2025 03:24 via bbc.com
  New data analysis suggests courses like artificial intelligence are surging in popularity as languages fall.
  
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• Generation AI: fears of ‘social divide’ unless all children learn computing skills

  05-01-2026 15:00
  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
  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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• UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice-chancellor

  03-01-2026 11:00
  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
  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
  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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• ‘I wasn’t allowed to study, but I will make sure no girl in this village hears those same words’

  02-01-2026 06:00
  Health worker Naushaba Roonjho was ostracised by her family in Pakistan for wanting to work but now she is campaigning for political officeWhen Naushaba Roonjho became the first girl anyone in her district knew to have passed Pakistan’s national secondary school exam, the news was not celebrated. At home, in her village of Sheikh Soomar in southern Sindh, her father told her: “This is enough, you don’t need to study more. You should stay at home now.”It was 2010 and Roonj
  
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• Transparency data: DfE: non-consolidated performance related pay 2024 to 2025

  31-12-2025 12:30 via gov.uk
  Information on non-consolidated performance related pay data for the Department for Education (DfE) and its agencies.
  
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• Transparency data: DfE: non-consolidated performance related pay 2023 to 2024

  31-12-2025 12:30 via gov.uk
  Information on non-consolidated performance related pay data for the Department for Education (DfE) and its agencies.
  
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• UK universities extend careers advice to graduates in their 40s and 50s

  30-12-2025 18:12
  Growing numbers of institutions now offering lifelong careers support as older alumni seek help to change jobsUniversity careers advisers are used to steering fresh-faced students towards the labour market – but they are now increasingly seeing graduates in their 40s and 50s looking for help to revive their careers.More UK universities are now giving their graduates lifelong access to campus careers services, including advice with job applications and interview preparation as well as helpi
  
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• School permanently closed over structural damage

  30-12-2025 13:37 via bbc.com
  Pupils will attend different schools for several weeks while a new site is prepared, leaders say.
  
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• Government pledges to reverse decline in foster carer numbers

  30-12-2025 13:09 via gov.uk
  New action in early 2026 to address urgent need for more foster carers and support retention of existing carers.
  
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• Online school and junior tennis: freedom, focus – and a quiet cost

  30-12-2025 10:00
  Elite junior tennis players are flocking to online schools. The model offers flexibility and focus – but raises deeper questions about growth, pressure and childhoodIn a major study released recently in Epidemiology, conclusions were drawn – yet again – regarding how shutdowns and online learning were ultimately very damaging to kids’ emotional and mental health (obviously some cohorts of kids were more affected than others with financial security a big part of the calcul
  
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• The Guardian view on the National Year of Reading 2026: time to start a healthy habit for life | Editorial

  29-12-2025 19:25
  A Children’s Booker prize, library cards for newborns and a major campaign – initiatives to encourage a love of books in children are a cause for celebrationReading to children from a young age leads to greater happiness, educational success, empathy and social mobility – no wonder the government wants to encourage everyone to do it more. To this end, next year has been decreed the National Year of Reading 2026. It couldn’t be more timely.Reading is in crisis. Picking up
  
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• School pupils meet-ups 'a lifeline' for retirement housing residents

  29-12-2025 07:35 via bbc.com
  A scheme that started four years ago brings primary school pupils together with elderly residents living nearby.
  
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• The words from my dad that saved me as a new parent

  29-12-2025 01:03 via bbc.com
  Professor Green and Ryan Libbey open up about how fatherhood affected them and how you can protect your mental health.
  
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• 'All children are still into Roald Dahl'

  27-12-2025 08:07 via bbc.com
  The Guinness Book of Records is a favourite with boys, but one author always tops the list.
  
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• ‘The hidden engine room’: how amateur historians are powering genealogical research

  26-12-2025 07:00
  Wealth of datasets compiled as private passions are now a goldmine for those hunting for their ancestorsThe autumn sunlight is filtering through quietly falling leaves as Louise Cocker stands in front of the gravestone of James Henry Payne and takes a quick photograph. Payne died at the age of 73 in October 1917 and was buried in the Norfolk town of North Walsham, along with his wife Eleanor and son James Edward, who was killed in the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917. “Not lost”, r
  
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• Biggest school in Highlands to become a 'no-phone zone'

  23-12-2025 18:53 via bbc.com
  Inverness Royal Academy said in a message to pupils and parents the new rule would start in February.
  
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• Government extends free NHS services for care leavers

  23-12-2025 10:59 via gov.uk
  Major boost for children leaving care with free prescriptions, dental and eyecare services.
  
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• University threatened with legal action after protest at academic's talk

  22-12-2025 12:00 via bbc.com
  Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a "zombie apocalypse" during the protest.
  
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• Head serves school dinners amid 'catering failings'

  22-12-2025 11:49 via bbc.com
  Malmesbury School's Christmas dinner was under threat due to staffing issues, according to its head.
  
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• Why do we stop singing when we reach secondary school?

  22-12-2025 01:03 via bbc.com
  New data suggests singing is much more common in primary and private schools than in state secondaries.
  
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• Share your daily school attendance data

  19-12-2025 10:15 via gov.uk
  The information that schools must provide to the Department for Education (DfE).
  
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• Boys to be sent on courses to tackle misogyny in schools

  18-12-2025 18:55 via bbc.com
  The measure is part of the government's strategy to tackle violence against women and girls in England.
  
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• Ben Jennings on plans to tackle misogyny in English schools – cartoon

  18-12-2025 18:47
  Discover and buy more of Ben’s cartoons hereOrder your own print of this cartoon from the Guardian Print Shop Continue reading...
  
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