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• ‘To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op’: Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical – and how getting high nearly broke her October 11, 2025
  The global icon of women’s education is ready to tell the full story of her turbulent recent life, from arguing with her parents to being ghosted by the statesmen who were once desperate to be seen with herI am at the shed where Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai smoked her first bong. No, there’s no punchline […]
  Sirin Kale
• MIT rejects White House proposal to overhaul policies for preferential funding October 10, 2025
  Other universities still mulling proposal while MIT’s president said it would compromise academic freedomThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has become the first US university to formally turn down a Trump administration proposal that would overhaul university policies in return for preferential access to federal funding.MIT’s president, Sally Kornbluth, disclosed the decision in a Friday […]
  Marina Dunbar
• Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues October 9, 2025
  Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leaderNigel Farage has claimed teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK election win, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors.The Reform UK […]
  Rowena Mason Whitehall editor
• I never thought I'd say this, but I now understand the appeal of home schooling | Emma Brockes October 9, 2025
  More and more parents in England are opting their kids out of the education system. I could never do it, but ‘wellbeing days’ do sound niceIf you want to get rich, a friend of mine said recently, set up an exam centre. We were talking about her decision to home school – or unschool, or […]
  Emma Brockes
• Happy, stressed, overwhelmed: Palestinians evacuated from Gaza start their studies in UK October 9, 2025
  Abdallah, 27, and Soha, 31, describe adjusting to their new lives after leaving their war-torn homeThe young man emerging from a backstreet accommodation block in a bustling corner of east London looks much like any other student, getting to grips with his studies at the start of a new term. But 27-year-old Abdallah carries more […]
  Sally Weale Education correspondent
• UK libraries urged to remove children’s books with URL hijacked by porn site October 8, 2025
  Puffin issues alert to schools and local authorities over books in popular Spy Dog series by Andrew CopeThe children’s publisher Puffin is hurriedly contacting UK schools and local authorities after it discovered that a website address included in a popular children’s book series had been hijacked by a pornography site.The publisher has urged school libraries […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• Tory plan to abolish stamp duty ‘will benefit London and the wealthiest the most’ – as it happened October 8, 2025
  This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereVoting in the Labour deputy leadership election opens today. Lucy Powell, the former Commons leader, is seen as the favourite and, as Jessica Elgot reports, Powell told supporters yesterday that, if she is elected, she will use the post to argue for changes […]
  Tom Ambrose (now) and Andrew Sparrow (earlier)
• UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show October 8, 2025
  Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protestsUniversities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails.One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate […]
  Daniel Boffey and Aaron Walawalkar