A former Dundee University principal has been named as the chairman of a new taskforce set up to help the financially-stricken institution. Sir Alan Langlands, who has also served as the chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the NHS in England, will chair the new …

Patrick Barlow BBC News, South East Getty Images School headteachers have expressed concerns about children as young as seven having smartphones Children as young as seven are being given smartphones, with some primary school pupils consuming harmful misogynistic content, a headteacher has said. Sophia Dover, headteacher at Cheriton Primary School …

Getty Images Matthew Whale previously taught PE at the Bracknell school (stock picture) A former teacher who had a sexual relationship with a pupil has been banned from the profession 17 years after his school said it raised concerns. Matthew Whale, now 50, taught PE at the then Easthampstead Park …

The government has defended its policy of adding VAT to private school fees, telling the High Court it enhances “the fairness of the tax system overall”. Barristers representing Chancellor Rachel Reeves, as well as HMRC and the Department for Education, said they wanted to raise standards for the 94% of …

Staff at the University of Sheffield have voted to go on strike over “drastic” restructuring plans which aim to save £23m over two years. The University and College Union (UCU) said up to 1,000 jobs would be put at risk by the plans, which have seen the number of academic …

Neve Gordon-Farleigh & Luke Deal BBC News, Suffolk Luke Deal/BBC Curator Katherine Bridges says the exhibition came about after public feedback The organisers of a new exhibition are hoping to transport people as far back as the 1940s with memories of school dinners. The Food Museum in Stowmarket, Suffolk, will …

BBC Simone Collins is sitting in her 18th century cottage in Pennsylvania, dressed in a black pilgrim pinafore with a wide collar, bouncing one of her four children on her lap. It is 8.30am and she looks a little tired – she runs several businesses, a foundation and is currently …

Alex Bish BBC South East Investigations Team PA Media The latest government figures suggest a rise in pupil suspensions for assaults on adults Councils in the South East have paid out tens of thousands of pounds in compensation to staff who have been injured during school violence, a BBC investigation …

Rachel Candlin BBC News, West of England Together for Short Lives/Ric Rawlins Reagan and her family are supported by the Jessie May respite charity A woman who has a daughter with a life-limiting condition said Mother’s Day would be special, although becoming her carer was “a hard pill to swallow”. …

Kevin Peachey Cost of living correspondent Getty Images A series of essential household bills are rising at the start of April, with warnings that single parents are among the hardest hit. Water bills, energy prices and council tax are all going up in what has been dubbed “awful April”, although …

Sue Mitchell & Ben Milne BBC News BBC John Wilcox with his granddaughter Amy David remembers the moment he found his elderly stepfather, John, unkempt and suffering from dementia, living alone in an unclean hotel room. “I didn’t think you’d leave an animal in the state that room was in,” …

Parents trying to retrieve money from a pre-payment system for school meals are “disappointed and frustrated” at being charged a £10 administration fee to reclaim funds, a school leader has said. The sQuid app allowed parents to put money on a card so pupils could pay for meals and other …

Getty Images / JohnnyGreig Clearer advice is needed on how to make campuses inclusive without falling foul of free speech regulations, the National Union of Students (NUS) has said. The body representing university students has expressed concern after the University of Sussex was fined £585,000 by the Office for Students …

There were 8,000 more secondary school pupils in special schools in England than places available for them last year, according to Department for Education (Dfe) figures – a rise of 25% in 12 months. About two-thirds of these schools were at or over capacity in 2023-2024, despite the number of …

BBC UCU members have been protesting against the proposed cost-cutting measures since they were announced in January Staff at a university which plans to cut 400 full-time jobs amid financial pressures have backed industrial action. More than 64% of members of Cardiff’s University and College Union (UCU) branch voted in …

Emilia Martinez-Barnfather BBC North East and Cumbria BBC Pupils at Hazlewood Primary School have been eating their dinner in this marquee tent for more than twelve months Pupils are still eating their dinners in a marquee more than a year after their school was deemed unsafe because of weak concrete, …

Sharon Edwards Political Reporter, Lincolnshire BBC Ava, aged 14, now travels an hour each way to a state school A mother in Lincolnshire has said the government’s decision to impose VAT on private school fees is costing taxpayers more money. Sarah said the county council was having to pay up …

Janine Machin BBC News, East of England BBC Chantry Primary says that since Covid, they have been using special educational needs teaching techniques for entire classes, even when they contain non-Sen pupils Five years ago, schools and nurseries across the UK closed to most children as the first Covid-19 lockdown …

BBC Sibghatullah Karimi says the cost is one of the factors behind the fall in overseas students coming to the country The University of Lincoln is joining other universities across the country calling for the government to reconsider its decision to impose visa restrictions on international students. The restrictions, introduced …

University of Bradford staff have voted for strike action over the potential loss of 300 jobs. The UCU union said that employees were told last month that 200 roles would go as part of £13m worth of cuts. However the all-staff meeting was also told that the university wanted to …