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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.

A new professional development programme (PD) to support the transition to the new post-16 education and training pathways will officially launch in September 2026, the Association of Colleges (AoC) has announced.

During the opening Plenary at the 2025 BERA Conference, Chantelle Haughton (Diversity and Anti-Racist Professional Learning), highlighted how Wales is ahead of the curve in the UK when it comes to implementing anti-racist educational policies and practices.

A new joint research report from Teacher Development Trust, Gatsby Foundation and The Cultural Education Network, powered by Arts Council England, examines the professional development experiences and needs of secondary teachers in England who teach science and arts subjects,...

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 recent survey reveals that many of England’s 376 maintained nursery schools face severe financial struggles.

Our intention in this blog post – the first of a three-part series – is to provide a refutation and critical evaluation of an influential but ultimately harmful colonial curriculum configuration.

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

Early childhood is a critical period for developing the foundational skills that underpin lifelong learning and well-being.

Universities should pitch to the centre, not (yet) the right.

Significant investments into Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Engineering Biology, Technologies and Quantum Computing have been announced by the UK Government in the past few months.

Universities UK is today setting an ambition to help double the level of external investment flowing into UK university innovation by 2035.

Vivienne Stern MBE, Chief Executive of UUK, and Amira Campbell, President of the NUS (National Union of Students), discuss how there needs to be a re-evaluation of who pays for higher education, moving towards a model that recognises its value to society.

The Centre for Young Lives think tank, is today (Monday) publishing a new report, ‘Starting Well: Lessons from local areas on how to ensure all children are school ready’.

Major reforms are reshaping education, but they are arriving at a time when many teachers and school leaders are already under significant pressure. Education Support's Director of Communications and Public Affairs, Gemma Scotcher, explores why workforce wellbeing must be...

New research from the British Educational Research Association (BERA), funded by the Kusuma Trust, highlights practical, evidence-informed ways schools can better support neurodivergent learners in mainstream settings.

The importance of Chinese in England’s modern foreign languages (MFL) curriculum has grown significantly over the past two decades.

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

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

AoC launches nationwide professional development for new post-16 pathways

Confronting colonialism in Welsh higher education: Can we re-map for a different future?

Teaching in & beyond Specialism: CPD for teachers in Arts and Science

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

Half of England’s maintained nursery schools unable to balance budgets as funding review looms

A decolonial and transcolonial curriculum: an urgent political moment

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

Supporting children’s foundational skills for a strong start to school

Populism and centrism in universities

The UK’s technical skills shortage is really a pathways problem

Universities UK sets goal to secure £100bn doubling of external investment into UK innovation by 2035

Government must start treating higher education like the investment in the future of our country it is

Government needs to do more than set a target if it is going to improve school readiness

Education system reform will only succeed if the workforce is well

BERA and the Kusuma Trust publish major new report series on improving the education experience of neurodivergent young people

Bridging the gap: How a Youth Chinese Test-based curriculum can support GCSE Chinese in England