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• Teachers say holidays in term can be worth more than time in school September 9, 2026
  School staff tell focus groups they believe school system in England and Wales cannot deal with attendance crisisTeachers have so little belief in the importance of pupils’ full school attendance that they would take their own children on term time holidays if they could, staff have told a three-year research programme.Frontline staff do not believe […]
  Alexandra Topping Political correspondent
• Babies born to anaemic mothers have smaller brains, study finds September 9, 2026
  Key regions of the brain linked to movement, learning and emotions were affected and may lead to cognitive problems Babies born to mothers with anaemia have smaller brains, particularly in key regions linked to movement, learning and the regulation of emotion, according to a study.Researchers said the differences, first detected at the age of one, […]
  Kat Lay, Global health correspondent
• Burnham says Britain will ‘continue to act in support of our values’ after UK launches sanctions on Israel – as it happened September 8, 2026
  Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Saar, earlier claimed that the UK was ‘systemically working against the state of Israel’ UK accuses Israeli ‘terrorists’ of ethnic cleansing in West Bank with government backingThe Liberal Democrats say they have been granted a Commons urgent question today about the latest Argentinian threats to the Falkland Islands. A Foreign Office […]
  Charlie Moloney (now) and Andrew Sparrow (earlier)
• The Guardian view on English schools: teachers and pupils should be proud of bucking a downward trend | Editorial September 8, 2026
  International comparisons suggest that some things are being done right in England’s classroomsTeachers, headteachers, children, parents and politicians should all feel proud of England’s schools, which have bucked a disappointing international trend. Results from 15-year-olds in reading, maths and science have held up well compared with 90 other countries, according to the programme for international […]
  Editorial
• Want to borrow a dinosaur fossil? Try California’s one-of-a-kind taxidermy lending library September 8, 2026
  A natural history museum lets residents take home 1,400 specimens, from bobcats and beetles to snakes in jarsOn a hot afternoon in August, I walked out of the San Diego Natural History Museum carrying a whale rib, a leopard pelt, a taxidermized weasel and a small piece of fossilized dinosaur poop.It felt like a heist. […]
  Lois Beckett in San Diego
• Students are suffering from US colleges’ shaky finances. Trump policies are making everything worse September 8, 2026
  Many four-year colleges will resort to laying off faculty, cutting services and increasing prices amid financial stressNalia Mutz started her freshman year at the University of Lynchburg in 2022 knowing exactly where she wanted to be four years later: right on track toward her dream of becoming a doctor.When the university eliminated a dozen majors […]
  Marina Villeneuve in Lynchburg, Virginia
• I went to Ikea with my son – and was confronted with my parenting failures | Zoe Williams September 8, 2026
  The pre-university shop is the moment you find out how much domestic wisdom you’ve managed to impart. In my case, noneI have yet again found my ultimate tribe in a high-street shop, this time Ikea. As far as the eye could see, there were middle-aged women trying to choose kitchen essentials for their late-teenaged sons, […]
  Zoe Williams
• England’s teenagers outperform peers in most countries in maths, reading and science September 8, 2026
  OECD test sees results dip in almost all member nations and warns of ‘digital distractions’ eroding academic skills England’s teenagers are outperforming their peers in most countries in maths, reading and science, according to an international survey that warns of “digital distractions” eroding academic skills around the world.The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) […]
  Richard Adams Education editor