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Students Urge Government To Make Registering To Vote Easier
Students Urge Government To Make Registering To Vote Easier
Education
Students have launched a campaign urging the government to make it easier for those attending university or college to register to vote.
Labour MP Says Her Colleagues Are 'On A Journey' To Support Her Summer Of Sex Campaign
Health
Labour MP Says Her Colleagues Are "On A Journey" To Support Her Summer Of Sex Campaign
Could Andy Burnham Be About To Reform The Student Loan System?
Education
Could Andy Burnham Be About To Reform The Student Loan System?
'It Is Just Demoralising': Young People's Despair Over AI And What To Do About It
Education
"It Is Just Demoralising": Young People's Despair Over AI And What To Do About It
EHRC Chair Mary-Ann Stephenson: 'The Code Could Be Blocked – The Law Remains The Law'
Education
EHRC Chair Mary-Ann Stephenson: "The Code Could Be Blocked – The Law Remains The Law"
Jacqui Smith: 'A Million Young People Not Earning Or Learning Is A Moral Outrage'
Education
Jacqui Smith: "A Million Young People Not Earning Or Learning Is A Moral Outrage"
Meet The Royal Ballet And Opera Apprentices Proving Timothée Chalamet Wrong
Education
Meet The Royal Ballet And Opera Apprentices Proving Timothée Chalamet Wrong
Opinion
University funding is unfinished business for Labour
Education
By Professor Koen Lamberts
University funding is unfinished business for Labour
Security means more than military spending
Education
By Jo Grady
Security means more than military spending
Parents need online help - not judgment - to make the social media ban work
Health
By Connor Rand MP
Parents need online help - not judgment - to make the social media ban work
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Wandsworth Council Planning Country's Largest Ever Council Tax Rise
Wandsworth Council Planning Country's Largest Ever Council Tax Rise
Communities
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Environment
Boney M In Talks To Play At Reform Conference
Boney M In Talks To Play At Reform Conference
Political parties
Cross-Party Group Of MPs Write To Press Regulator Over Jason Arday Coverage
Cross-Party Group Of MPs Write To Press Regulator Over Jason Arday Coverage
Culture
Chef Tom Kerridge Says Burnham Should Create Department For Hospitality
Chef Tom Kerridge Says Burnham Should Create Department For Hospitality
Culture
Clacton and Makerfield show we are living in an era of high-stakes politics
Clacton and Makerfield show we are living in an era of high-stakes politics
By Luke Tryl
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Edtech Wars: Meet The Mums Fighting Screens In Classrooms
Education
Edtech Wars: Meet The Mums Fighting Screens In Classrooms
As consensus grows around the need for social media and smartphone restrictions for under-16s, Sienna Rodgers reports that campaigner mums across the country are now bringing the fight to edtech
How Thousands Of Ukrainian Children In The UK Are Growing Up In Limbo
Education
How Thousands Of Ukrainian Children In The UK Are Growing Up In Limbo
More than 60,000 Ukrainian children have grown up in the UK since fleeing Russia’s full-scale invasion. Zoe Crowther explores how the absence of a long-term settlement plan is leaving these children and their families in limbo.
NEU's Daniel Kebede: 'Schools Have Become A Battleground For Reform'
Education
NEU's Daniel Kebede: "Schools Have Become A Battleground For Reform"
Head of the UK’s biggest teaching union Daniel Kebede tells Matilda Martin that schools are the frontline in the fight against Reform – and teachers should get time off for Glastonbury
Education news
The Parent Trap: Cost of childcare
Education
By Tom Sasse
The Parent Trap: Cost of childcare
The government and the opposition have both promised to address chronically expensive childcare. Do their plans add up? Tom Sasse reports
Turning around teaching: how to boost recruitment and retention Partner content
Education
By University of Sussex
Turning around teaching: how to boost recruitment and retention
University of Sussex research reveals how low-cost interventions can make the teaching profession more appealing – with huge implications for children’s life chances.
Education Revolution - why aren't we teaching AI in schools?
Education
By Justine Smith
Education Revolution - why aren't we teaching AI in schools?
It’s becoming ever clearer that AI will shape every part of our future much sooner than we could have predicted, from how we work and live to how we fight disease and wage war. So why aren’t we teaching it in schools? Justine Smith reports. Illustrations by Tracy Worrall
“I would be a lot less forgiving if I were a student': The Lord Blunkett interview
Education
By Tali Fraser
“I would be a lot less forgiving if I were a student": The Lord Blunkett interview
As a former education secretary, and now a university professor, Lord Blunkett’s involvement in the education sector has spanned many decades. He talks to Tali Fraser about university strikes, his plans for a skills revolution, and the need for a long term consensus to do right by the next generation
The Gillian Keegan interview: 'People have the right to their own identity'
Education
By Tali Fraser
The Gillian Keegan interview: "People have the right to their own identity"
Gillian Keegan is not your typical Tory. A Liverpudlian who left school at 16, she has moved on from a successful career in business to become the Education Secretary. She talks to Tali Fraser about strikes, gender identity and how to disagree agreeably. Photography by Louise Haywood-Schiefer
The Policy Shift Required: Embracing Technology to Bridge the UK's Health Inequality Gap Partner content
Education
By The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
The Policy Shift Required: Embracing Technology to Bridge the UK's Health Inequality Gap
By drawing on the power of technology, policymakers have the potential to reduce the UK's stark health inequalities and save lives.
Pixels overtake playgrounds for kids’ social lives Partner content
Education
By The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Pixels overtake playgrounds for kids’ social lives
Education Unions Accuse Government Of 'Wall Of Silence' On Pay Negotiations
Education
Education Unions Accuse Government Of "Wall Of Silence" On Pay Negotiations
The leaders of major education unions have accused the government of ignoring their calls to re-enter negotiations over teachers’ pay and conditions.
Children At Risk Of 'Poor Health' As Food Inflation Eats Into Free School Meal Budgets
Education
Children At Risk Of "Poor Health" As Food Inflation Eats Into Free School Meal Budgets
Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside Kim Johnson has said a drop in the quality of free school meals is driven by high inflation and could put school children at risk greater risk of "poor health" as well as underachievement in school.
University Towns Face Huge Economic Hit From Student Visa Curbs
Education
University Towns Face Huge Economic Hit From Student Visa Curbs
Changes to international student visa rules that restrict foreign students from bringing family members to the UK could hit the economy of university towns across the UK, local leaders have warned.
Partner content
Education
By National Foundation for Educational Research
Urgent action needed to prevent skills shortages and potential impact on the economy and employment
Partner content
Education
By National Foundation for Educational Research
NFER statement on School Teachers' Review Body (STRB) proposed pay increase for teachers
Following the news that the School Teachers' Review Body (STRB) is proposing a 6.5% increase in teacher pay for the 2023/24 academic year, NFER’s School Workforce Lead, Jack Worth, said:
Education Minister Says He Has 'Struggled With Maths' Since Childhood
Education
Education Minister Says He Has "Struggled With Maths" Since Childhood
Education minister Robert Halfon has admitted that he has “struggled with maths” since childhood, and is keen to see Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's reforms on numeracy education support students who have faced similar difficulties.
Children must be banned from accessing pornography under the Online Safety Bill
Education
By Dame Rachel de Souza
Children must be banned from accessing pornography under the Online Safety Bill
Children growing up today have never known life without access to the internet. Their interaction with technology is unrecognisable from previous generations.
Teachers are battling a mental health crisis – toxic Ofsted inspections must change before more lives are lost
Education
By Dave McPartlin
Teachers are battling a mental health crisis – toxic Ofsted inspections must change before more lives are lost
With so much noise about teachers striking and arguments over pay, people shouldn’t forget that we are sleepwalking into an education crisis.
Unions Say Government Must Improve Teacher Pay To Deliver Plans For Maths To 18
Education
Unions Say Government Must Improve Teacher Pay To Deliver Plans For Maths To 18
There are “not enough teachers” for Rishi Sunak to deliver his plans for compulsory maths to 18, unions have warned today, as schools struggle with recruitment and retention.
Partner content
Education
By The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
IET responds to PM announcement on next steps in maths to 18
David Lakin, IET Head of Education, Safeguarding and Education Policy, says:
How arts-in-nature experiences can boost the wellbeing of children and young people Partner content
Health
By IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
How arts-in-nature experiences can boost the wellbeing of children and young people
Arts-in-nature practice improves mental health and connection with nature.
Lords praise for top student Partner content
Education
Lords praise for top student
First year Sellafield mechanical design apprentice Saarah Hashmi has picked up a top award in parliament from Lord Kenneth Baker.
Unions 'Won't Rest' In Fight For Pay Deals After Success For NHS And Rail
Health
Unions "Won't Rest" In Fight For Pay Deals After Success For NHS And Rail
The year began with the highest levels of industrial action in decades, with nurses, junior doctors, ambulance workers, rail operators, teachers, university staff, and civil servants shivering on the picket lines in their fight for improved pay and conditions – sometimes almost all at once.
Partner content
Education
By Bar Council
Hundreds of school students compete in final of the Bar Mock Trial Competition
On Saturday 25 March at The Royal Courts of Justice hundreds of students from 22 schools across the UK will come together to compete in the final of the National Bar Mock Trial Competition 2023. This is the first time that the competition’s final has taken place in person since the pandemic in 2020.
Education
By National Foundation for Educational Research
Teacher vacancies almost twice pre-Covid level and recruitment target likely to be missed again
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Education
By The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
IET responds to Spring Statement
Alex Taylor, Head of Policy at the Institution of Engineering and Technology, said: “The Chancellor has set out his ambition to drive economic growth, skills and jobs in the UK.
Scrap upfront childcare fees for families on the lowest incomes – it’s the poverty premium in action
Education
By Becca Lyon
Scrap upfront childcare fees for families on the lowest incomes – it’s the poverty premium in action
After housing costs, childcare is the biggest single expense facing parents with young children. In some cases, it costs even more than their mortgage or rent. Like thousands of parents in England with pre-school age children, as I rush out the door, packed lunches, coats, and toys in hand, I think to myself: there’s got to be a better system than this.
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