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Antisemitism on the rise at universities, charity warns

The Community Security Trust (CST) said it had recorded 95 "university-related" incidents in the 2025-26 academic year - up from 83 the year before. It said the number had fallen from its peak in the year after Hamas…

High screen time can hurt children’s learning and language skills, study suggests

Researchers examined data on more than 2.8 million children across 64 countries and concluded that elevated screen exposure could affect children in areas including academic achievement and emotional problems. It is one…

Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work

Staff delivering apprenticeship training in computer and AI skills to thousands of UK public and private sector workers now have transcripts of online classroom sessions analysed and scored by an AI programmed to alert…

‘It’s like the Scottish Upper East Side’: shame and snobbery as American students blamed for St Andrews classism

But in the two weeks since she published her story on LinkedIn, it has resonated with hundreds of others. "Working-class students have been made to feel ashamed of their home life at university," the former comparative…

Schoolchildren without smartphones penalised with higher bus fares

Critics argue that by only making discounts available through an app, operators are undermining government guidance to keep mobile phones out of schools. Adele Kightley's 11-year-old daughter faces paying an extra £546 a…

Trump administration guts data collection on US education as math and reading scores plummet

When the Trump administration took a wrecking ball to the Department of Education last year, firing nearly half of its workers and allowing the so-called "department of government efficiency" (Doge) to cancel nearly…

Human skills, AI thrills: the initiative guiding young people into a radically changing job market

Teachers have finally nailed who's who in their cohort, brand new jumpers are piling up in lost property and summer lie-ins feel like a distant memory. But the start of the 2026/27 year brings some fresh challenges, too.…

Did you sit vocational qualifications in the past and more recently in England? We would like to hear from you

The Department for Education (DfE) said the new GCSEs would be two-year courses taken in year 10 and 11, "with nationally set content, grading and assessment" and regulated by Ofqual, England's qualifications watchdog…

Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University

The university announced that Anant Ambani had been given a professorship of practice for "his work in conservation, biodiversity protection, animal welfare and environmental stewardship" and "significant contributions…

Schools not ready for AI and 'crying out' for government guidance, report warns

His report calls for the government to roll out a national framework for adopting AI in education in England, including training teachers on how to use it, which schools should use to develop their own "AI strategies" by…