Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said he wants to see two-thirds of young people in the UK go to university or study a technical qualification after leaving school. Speaking at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, he said the party’s old ambition to “get 50% of kids to uni” – …

Getty Images The report found “struggling” students were more likely to have negative experiences on their phones compared to those who were “thriving” A survey of thousands of pupils, teachers and parents has found struggling students are more likely to come into contact with potentially harmful content on their phones …

Almost two thirds of headteachers say the new Ofsted school inspections will be worse for their wellbeing than the old system, a poll has found. Pepe Di’Iasio, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said the findings are “deeply worrying”. Ofsted confirmed earlier this month it …

A local authority data breach has seen the personal details of multiple children, including their home addresses, sent to complete strangers. Cornwall Council has confirmed that a number of emails relating to school transport assistance were sent in error to the wrong recipients. It apologised to concerned parents for the …

The government did not start planning for the closure of schools until the day before the decision was made, the Covid-19 inquiry has heard. Up until 16 March 2020, focus had been on keeping schools open, so there were no contingency plans in place, according to evidence given by the …

A family have criticised plans for the upgrade of a local playground in Bromsgrove, which they said will exclude their young daughter because of her disability. The district council is spending £2m upgrading playgrounds across the town, with work set to start on Upland Grove Park. But Gillian Crosby-Read lives …

Maintenance grants will return for some university students in England by 2029, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said. The grants will apply to “tens of thousands” of students from lower-income households, targeted at those “studying priority courses that support the industrial strategy and the Labour government’s wider mission to renew …

Year 8 pupils in England will have to sit reading tests at school under government plans due to be released this autumn, the BBC understands. The mandatory tests, first reported by Schools Week, would aim to check their progress two years into secondary school. It comes amid concern that a …

Hazel ShearingEducation correspondent Getty Images Private schools in England could pay more for Ofsted inspections under plans set out by the Department for Education (DfE). The DfE said the regulator’s inspections of private schools cost £6.5m last year – £2.2m of which was covered by fees charged to the schools. …

Getty There has been a sharp decline in pupil numbers since the “post-millennium baby boom”, the report found The number of pupils in primary schools in London is continuing to fall sharply as a low birth rate coupled with families moving away from the capital is starting to take effect, …

Hayley ClarkeEducation reporter and Emily Doughty Getty Images Thousands of students have reported being victims of sexual violence and harassment in the first sector-wide survey of sexual misconduct at universities in England. The Office for Students (OfS), the higher education regulator, said 14% of students responding to its survey reported …

Two boys arrested following a knife incident at a college have been released on bail, police said. The pair were arrested on suspicion of violent disorder, while police were responding to reports of someone with a knife at Royal Leamington Spa College in Warwickshire on Tuesday. Another 17-year-old boy arrested …

Cancer diagnosis is hard, but looking and feeling like you have cancer can be even worse, says Gaby. BBC News

Michelle RuminskiSenior Politics Reporter , Somerset and Carys NallyJournalist , West of England Handout Somerset mother Tatjana is calling on the council to review their post-16 travel policy for her son, Luke The mother of a teenager with special educational needs is calling on a council to reverse its decision …

Jason Arunn MurugesuNorth East and Cumbria Northumbria Police Zoe Williams was banned from teaching “indefinitely” A primary school teacher who sexually abused children has been banned from the profession. Zoe Williams, from Northumberland, was jailed for 10 years in November 2023 for several offences. They included her and her paedophile …

Shehnaz KhanWest Midlands Getty Images The university said the flights were taken as part of its plan to announce more overseas campuses in the next 12 months A union has criticised Coventry University bosses for spending thousands of pounds on first class flights whilst staff are being made redundant. The …

Helen BurchellCambridgeshire Caius Carla Risoldi (right) returned her key to senior porter John Turton on Thursday An American student has returned her room key to the University of Cambridge, 40 years after accidentally taking it back to the USA with her. Carla Risoldi had been a summer school student at …

Read the most interesting discoveries from a recent survey of 2,000 13- to 18 year-olds by BBC 5 Live and BBC Bitesize. BBC News

The answers from young people at the BBC Teen Summit range from caring about the world to AI. BBC News

Katie Nellist, who has autism and struggled to attend school, says the government needs to engage with young people over the future of the system. BBC News