Bloomsbury Institute suspended from recruiting overseas students
Private provider temporarily blocked from international recruitment amid UKVI probe as seven universities face visa action plans.
Meningitis B vaccine offered to all freshers after Kent outbreak
Under-25s across the UK to be offered two-dose vaccination from July onwards.
Russell Group warned over ‘divisive’ support for entry thresholds
New leader of research-intensive grouping says ‘challenging conversations’ needed but critics urge united front against political attacks.
What changes in regulatory culture might follow from the University of Sussex’s High Court victory over OfS?
The recent High Court ruling on free speech has larger implications for how the sector in England is regulated.
UK school leavers and new students to be offered meningitis B vaccine
Teenagers in their final school year and young people starting university will be offered two doses of a vaccine to protect them against meningitis B, the government has announced.
Facing a downhill march for bootcamp funding
Funding for devolved areas to run skills bootcamps has been cut by more than half this financial year, data suggests.
£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.
Grammar schools are inclusive, says Ofsted
Ofsted has branded every grammar school inspected so far under its new framework as inclusive, prompting a backlash from social mobility campaigners.
Cleaners consider strike as Ark cancels wage agreement
One of England’s most influential academy trusts has stopped offering the real living wage to staff this year, blaming stretched budgets and falling rolls.
Natural history GCSE to teach teenagers to plant wildflower-friendly gardens
School pupils will learn how to plant a wildflower-friendly garden, according to long-awaited plans announced on Thursday for a natural history GCSE in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Private school founded in 1889 closes with an hour’s notice
A 137-year-old private school has shut just days after its head teacher claimed it had been saved from closure.
Teachers in Wales face delayed pay rises as new Welsh Government clashes with heads
The new Plaid Cymru Welsh Government has clashed with head teachers over pay within weeks of taking office.
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.
Schools in Northern Ireland praised for being ‘bedrocks of safety’ for pupils amid disorder
Schools in Northern Ireland have been praised for keeping children safe and helping them continue to learn amid the disorder prompted by a knife attack in Belfast.
Surge in universities accepting students without qualifications
One in 12 UK-based undergraduates is starting a full-time degree without any formal qualifications, an analysis of data shows.
Dundee University approves £20m cuts plan amid jobs losses
Dundee University has approved a recovery plan requiring around £20m in further annual savings, raising renewed fears of job losses after hundreds of posts have already gone or been earmarked for redundancy.
More than 500k pupils in schools with EHCPs
The number of pupils with an education health and care plan has reached another record high, with more than 500,000 children now receiving statutory support for special educational needs in school.
Almost half of the disadvantage gap ‘locks in’ by age 11 – research
Almost half of the GCSE attainment gap between poorer pupils and their better-off peers is “locked in” by the end of primary school, new research has warned.
Cambridge fined £875k for automated test blunder
The University of Cambridge has been fined £875,000 after automated marking failures caused tens of thousands of people to receive incorrect English language test results, including some needed for visa, immigration and university applications.
Test makers handed out wrong English language results to thousands
The exams regulator, Ofqual, has fined Cambridge English £875,000 against after the test maker issued erroneous results to tens of thousands of people undertaking English language proficiency tests.