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Rising travel costs add to uncertainty ahead of September student arrivals

Institutions are preparing for rising airfares and potential travel disruption ahead of key student intakes, while students and families navigate visa delays and broader affordability pressures.

Home Office issues amendment after The PIE reports on BCA blind spot

The Home Office has published an amendment to the student sponsor compliance policy, clarifying that only visa refusal decisions that are successfully overturned by administrative review will be exempt from BCA calculations.

Exam board accused of 'highly misleading' committee evidence

Staff at Scotland’s only exam board were so concerned about a colleague’s evidence to a parliamentary committee that they drafted an official apology to be sent in her name, The Herald can exclusively reveal.

Girls with additional needs ‘at significant risk from social media algorithms’

Social media algorithms are “exacerbating” the vulnerabilities of girls who have additional needs, leaving them exposed to “significant harm”, a new report has warned.

NI teachers may strike over 'unsustainable' workload

Teachers in Northern Ireland are to vote on whether to take industrial action over what they say is their "unsustainable" workload.

Glasgow Caledonian University begin strike over job cuts

Strike action begins at Glasgow Caledonian University on Wednesday, as staff walk out in a dispute over job cuts and possible compulsory redundancies.

McAllan urges schools to act ahead of new legislation on mobiles in class

The Scottish Government is to change the law to prevent pupils from using mobile phones in classrooms – with education secretary Mairi McAllan also setting out that existing guidance on their use will be toughened up ahead of legislation.

Online misogyny risks ‘lost generation of young men’, Sadiq Khan warns as he calls for under-16s social media ban

London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan has issued a stark warning, cautioning that online misogyny risks creating "a lost generation of young men", as he intensified his call for a ban on social media for under-16s.

Camden Council faces legal action over child sexual abuse safeguarding failures

Camden Council is facing legal action over safeguarding failures at a nursery home where a man sexually abused children as young as two years old.

Debt-ridden graduates seen as ‘cash cows’ to fund older people’s lifestyles, MPs told

7. Student loans crisis ‘comparable to PPI scandal’, education tsar suggests | Independent 8. 'With debt rising and jobs scarce, were our degrees worth it?' | BBC

Rapid rise in remote students in Wales but Open University warns of funding risk

Demand for flexible higher education in Wales is growing rapidly but a lack of funding could threaten future access to study, the Open University has said.

At the heart of Labour’s historic mission is to provide equality of opportunity: to break the link between someone’s background and their future success.

As demand for specialist skills rises sharply, the Russell Group says the UK could fall behind other leading research nations without collective action.

Increasingly, ‘voice’, though not an uncontested term, is understood as manifest through, for instance, gesture, gaze, body language, art, and other embodied forms (Murris, 2013; Murray, 2019), and even silence (Spyrou, 2016; Hanna, 2022).

£30 million has been earmarked for Liverpool City Region (LCR) to boost high-potential innovation clusters.

Since the last time SMF looked at child food insecurity, the economic landscape has shifted considerably.

University students are becoming increasingly perfectionistic, with growing fears about failure, mistakes and being judged by others, according to new research co-authored by Dr Thomas Curran, Associate Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Psychological and...

How pupils with special educational needs are more likely to see their schools close

Nine-year-old Blake is trying to climb over the locked gates of his former primary school, St Dominic's in Hackney, when we meet him. It closed last year due to falling pupil numbers. The playground is overgrown, and the modular buildings stand quiet and empty.

Skills England has today published its Annual Skills Report, marking its first anniversary with a comprehensive assessment of current and future skills needs.

Hundreds of Edinburgh University staff paid to leave in £140m cuts bid

Almost 500 people have taken voluntary severance at Edinburgh University since managers first announced cost-cutting plans in August 2024.

Rising travel costs add to uncertainty ahead of September student arrivals

Home Office issues amendment after The PIE reports on BCA blind spot

Exam board accused of 'highly misleading' committee evidence

Girls with additional needs ‘at significant risk from social media algorithms’

NI teachers may strike over 'unsustainable' workload

Glasgow Caledonian University begin strike over job cuts

McAllan urges schools to act ahead of new legislation on mobiles in class

Online misogyny risks ‘lost generation of young men’, Sadiq Khan warns as he calls for under-16s social media ban

Camden Council faces legal action over child sexual abuse safeguarding failures

Debt-ridden graduates seen as ‘cash cows’ to fund older people’s lifestyles, MPs told

Rapid rise in remote students in Wales but Open University warns of funding risk

We must focus on widening access to postgraduate degrees

Unlock opportunities for postgraduate study to transform the UK’s skills base

The stickiness of children’s voice and agency in research

First projects funded by Local Innovation Partnership Fund

Growing up hungry: Measuring UK child food insecurity in 2026

New research finds university students experiencing increasing levels of perfectionism

How pupils with special educational needs are more likely to see their schools close

Landmark report sets out action to address key skills gaps

Hundreds of Edinburgh University staff paid to leave in £140m cuts bid