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As environmental challenges intensify, environmental education (EE) has become increasingly important for promoting sustainable practices and supporting adaptation to environmental change.

A joint Elevate Great and Henry Smith Foundation evidence review on Financing in Early Education and Care highlights that design of financing, rather than overall spend, shapes access, quality, and outcomes in the UK.

A look back at the last week in education, a peek at what's coming up, plus lots of other bits and...

Public First conducted an online anonymous poll of 500 UK organisational decision-makers between the 1st and 13th April 2026.

Nearly half (45 per cent) of the children surveyed in a new report from researchers at LSE and the University of Oslo said age-based restrictions on social media would not make them feel any safer online.

Nearly half (44 per cent) of the gap between the GCSE results of disadvantaged pupils and their peers already exists at age 11, according to new Education Policy Institute (EPI) and Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) research, underscoring the critical role of early years and...

£2.5m fund to study how AI tools are affecting learning

The government’s go-to education research body has opened a £2.5 million research fund to fill an “urgent evidence gap” on how tools like ChatGPT have impacted the way pupils learn.

Record number of children in UK have special educational needs, new data shows

A record 1.8 million children in the UK have special educational needs (SEN), an increase of 91,400 (5%) on the previous year.

Against a backdrop of financial pressures and growing concerns about student wellbeing, the latest evidence suggests students remain remarkably positive about their university experience.

Statistics anxiety encompasses a range of emotional, behavioural and cognitive symptoms when engaging with statistics (Onwuegbuzie & Wilson, 2003), but mainly can be conceptualised as intense negative feelings towards statistics.

Many of the biggest challenges facing the education system – including absence, disengagement and SEND – are complex, interrelated and are shaped by socioeconomic circumstance.

The 2026 Student Academic Experience Survey, published by Advance HE and the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), finds more students reporting good value for money and feeling positive about their choice of university than at any point in over a decade, even as financial...

North-east universities launch joint spin-out fund

Five institutions collaborate with regional mayor to support businesses built on university research.

North East England’s new investment fund is a template for university spinout success

Universities in the North East of England have set up a fund dedicated to university spinout creation. Northumbria University vice chancellor Andy Long explains the thinking behind it.

Every morning, millions of children are expected to attend school. Yet many face barriers that prevent regular attendance.

Higher education in Europe is increasingly diverse.

Midlands Mindforge, the investment company dedicated to supporting university spinouts in the Midlands, has completed its first round of investments.

UKRI has announced 18 successful projects in cycle five of the OFGEM SIF have secured a total of £22.9 million in funding.

The Education Training Foundation (ETF), the professional body for the further education (FE) and skills workforce, has published its new report, Beyond the label: workforce, transition and the future of SEND reform.

A long-running question in education research is just how much difference individual teachers make to pupil outcomes.

Making a case for environmental education research: A comparison of Chile and the UK

Beyond Spend: Why the UK faces a structural Early Years challenge

Weekly Round Up - 12/06/2026

New polling on universities

Social media bans risk excluding children from important opportunities rather than tackling harms, new report finds

44% of the GCSE disadvantage gap is locked in by age 11, first-of-its-kind research shows

£2.5m fund to study how AI tools are affecting learning

Record number of children in UK have special educational needs, new data shows

New HEPI and Advance HE report ‘The Student Academic Experience Survey 2026’

Co-producing research with students: Exploring the impact of statistics anxiety in higher education

Growing apart: the evolution of the disadvantage gap

Student perceptions of their academic experience reach a decade-high despite the pressures facing higher education

North-east universities launch joint spin-out fund

North East England’s new investment fund is a template for university spinout success

Every day counts: Understanding, preventing and responding to school attendance problems

Religious-based bullying and cyber-discrimination in higher education: insights from European research

UKRI backs Midlands Mindforge to deploy first spinout investments

Ofgem SIF: £22.9m to support ambitious, transformational projects

New ETF report sets out sector priorities to strengthen SEND support across FE and skills

Primary school teachers matter for learning, but may have little impact on attendance