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• Unpaid internships ‘locking out’ young working-class people from careers January 23, 2025
  UK charity calls for positions of four weeks or longer to be banned to help close social mobility gapYoung people from working-class or disadvantaged backgrounds are being “locked out” of careers by unpaid or low-paid internships that benefit middle-class graduates, according to a social mobility charity.Research by the Sutton Trust found that middle-class graduates made […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• Royal Navy ships mobilised to respond to Russian spy ship in North Sea, defence secretary tells MPs – as it happened January 22, 2025
  John Healey says foreign ship Yantar is in North Sea to gather intelligence on UK’s underwater infrastructure. This live blog is closedA new online train ticket retailer backed by the UK government is to be created, the Department for Transport (DfT) has announced, with the aim of simplifying the process of buying tickets from different […]
  Andrew Sparrow
• Badenoch calls schools bill an ‘act of vandalism’ in PMQs exchange with Starmer – video January 22, 2025
  Kemi Badenoch called Keir Starmer's children's wellbeing and schools bill 'an act of vandalism' at PMQs. She said the bill wrecked a cross-party consensus (on academy freedoms) that had lasted for decades. Starmer replied that Labour had introduced academies and they would stay. The bill will include measures for the safeguarding and welfare of children, […]
• Trump’s plans to axe US education department put marginalized students most at risk, experts warn January 21, 2025
  The president can’t fully eliminate the federal agency, but an overhaul could disrupt critical services for students who are of color, low-income or LGBTQ+For many students of color, access to an equitable education is dependent on the initiatives and programs provided by the Department of Education. Among its various functions, the department provides targeted funding […]
  Gloria Oladipo
• Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand? January 21, 2025
  We are far more likely to use our hands to type or swipe than pick up a pen. But in the process we are in danger of losing cognitive skills, sensory experience – and a connection to historyHumming away in offices on Capitol Hill, in the Pentagon and in the White House is a technology […]
  Christine Rosen
• The financial time bomb facing special educational needs – podcast January 21, 2025
  Richard Adams reports on the Send funding cliff edge affecting children and their developmentViolet in north London is six years old and loves butterflies and moths. She’s autistic with speech and language difficulties and even before she started nursery, her mother, Tamara, began pursuing extra support from her local authority. Years later, the process of […]
  Presented by Hannah Moore with Richard Adams; produced by Ruth Abrahams, Rudi Zygadlo; executive producer Courtney Yusuf
• Bad Education by Matt Goodwin review – a lapsed liberal’s war on ‘woke’ lecture January 20, 2025
  The former politics professor is right to defend free speech in our higher education system, but his argument is undermined by his hysterical tone and lack of nuanceMatt Goodwin is a former professor of politics at the University of Kent who took voluntary severance last year, following a series of controversial posts after the Southportstabbings. […]
  Andrew Anthony
• Brain implant that could boost mood by using ultrasound to go under NHS trial January 20, 2025
  Devices may have potential to help patients with conditions such as depression, addiction, OCD and epilepsyA groundbreaking NHS trial will attempt to boost patients’ mood using a brain-computer-interface that directly alters brain activity using ultrasound.The device, which is designed to be implanted beneath the skull but outside the brain, maps activity and delivers targeted pulses […]
  Hannah Devlin Science correspondent