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• EU calls for urgent reboot in talks with UK to stop reset deal failing March 16, 2026
  Time is running out to find agreement on areas such as tuition fees EU citizens would pay in Britain and rules for food safetyThe EU is hoping to urgently reboot talks on the “reset” of relations with the UK as negotiations are in danger of foundering before a planned July summit.At a public meeting of […]
  Lisa O’Carroll in Brussels and Kiran Stacey in London
• Three-quarters of nine-month-olds in England have ‘daily screen time’ March 16, 2026
  Study shows average time on screens each day is 41 minutes, with some watching more than three hours a dayThree-quarters of nine-month-old babies in England are allowed daily screen time, while a small “heavy use” group watch more than three hours a day, according to a study.Just 2% of the infants included in the research […]
  Sally Weale Education correspondent
• The Guardian view on post-16 qualifications: the case for V-levels replacing BTecs is unproven | Editorial March 15, 2026
  Pausing the scrapping of existing qualifications was the right decision. But the wider battle over further education continuesThe government’s granting of a stay of execution to popular courses including health and business studies BTecs, while alternatives are developed, is a victory for common sense. It should not have taken a years‑long campaign by the college […]
  Editorial
• Row over university fees shows UK’s ‘reset’ with EU may not be so simple March 15, 2026
  Ministers go to Brussels for talks amid tuition fees standoff, almost 10 years after Britons voted to leave EUThis week is “Brexit reset” week for the British government, as ministers engage in a flurry of activity intended to highlight their determination to forge closer ties with Brussels almost 10 years after the country first voted […]
  Kiran Stacey Policy editor
• Office for Students faces judicial review over public funding for bible colleges March 15, 2026
  National Secular Society to launch court action after failure to investigate alleged breaches of academic freedom lawsA university regulator in England has failed to investigate potential breaches of laws protecting academic freedom at a dozen theological colleges and is now facing legal action, the Guardian has learned.The National Secular Society says it is preparing to […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• Row over tuition fees cut for European students threatens Starmer’s EU reset March 15, 2026
  British negotiators ‘blindsided’ by Brussels’ demand for a reduction that could cost universities £140m a yearBritain is in a standoff with Brussels over a demand to cut university tuition fees for European students, in a row that threatens to scupper Keir Starmer’s planned EU reset.EU officials say European students should pay “home” fees of about […]
  Kiran Stacey Policy editor
• Phillipson accuses lawyers of exploiting parents of children with special needs March 13, 2026
  Education secretary claims lawyers’ criticisms of her department’s policy changes are motivated by profitLawyers have been accused of exploiting parents of children with special needs by the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, who said their criticisms of the government’s policy changes were motivated by profit.Speaking at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) annual conference, […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• ‘It’s like a giant book club’: how schools are getting children excited about reading again March 13, 2026
  In the National Year of Reading, teachers say a culture of enthusiasm, from dress-up days, story time and book clubs, can reverse a national declineAjmal, 7, is an avid fan of the InvestiGators comic books. They feature two crime-busting alligator secret agents called Mango and Brash. “It’s really funny,” he says, then outlines the plot […]
  Sally Weale Education correspondent