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- Reform-led Worcestershire set to issue England’s largest council tax rise February 9, 2026Cap-busting tax hike will be embarrassing for the party, which has made low council tax a priorityReform-led Worcestershire county council is likely to issue England’s largest council tax rise this April after it was given special permission by the government to increase it by up to 9%.Worcestershire is one of a handful of authorities whose […]Patrick Butler Social policy editor
- San Francisco teachers begin first strike in nearly 50 years February 9, 2026Thousands walk out after talks with district failed to reach agreement on wages, healthcare and resources for students with special needsAbout 6,000 public schoolteachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday, the first public schoolteachers strike in the city in nearly 50 years.The strike comes after teachers and the district failed to reach an […]Guardian staff and agency
- Children with special needs in England will keep current support, minister says February 9, 2026Georgia Gould reassures parents that no child will be asked to leave school or have levels of assistance removedChildren with special needs will not lose their places at special schools or current levels of assistance, an education minister has told parents anxious that the government would strip away their child’s support.Facing questions at an online […]Richard Adams Education editor
- The Guardian view on student loans: a graduate levy by stealth is no way to fund the NHS | Editorial February 8, 2026By freezing thresholds, Labour is quietly loading the cost of public services on to young graduates, while insisting it has not raised taxes at allThe personal finance expert Martin Lewis upbraided the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, for freezing the threshold at which millions of graduates repay their loans, saying that this was treating student debts like tax. […]Editorial
- Schools that cultivate the mind but neglect spiritual education leave children unanchored in a challenging world | Kat Eghdamian February 8, 2026Young people are hungering for meaning. A lack of spiritual education in childhood can reverberate across a lifetimeMaking sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday lifeAs a parent, I want nothing more than for my children to grow into healthy, happy, purposeful human beings. Yet […]Kat Eghdamian
- Pentagon to cut ties with Harvard over ‘wokesters’, ending training, programs and fellowships February 7, 2026Move by Pete Hegseth marks latest escalation by Trump administration against the Ivy League schoolThe US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has said the Pentagon is ending all military training, fellowships and certificate programs with Harvard University, marking the Trump administration’s latest escalation against the Ivy League school.“The @DeptWar is formally ending ALL Professional Military Education, […]Robert Mackey, Nick Robins-Early and agencies
- £99,987 and counting: graduates trapped by ballooning student loans February 6, 2026As their debts rise, graduates reveal how loans are reshaping careers, finances and faith in the systemStudent loans: why is Martin Lewis clashing with Rachel Reeves?Growing anger over the plight of millions of graduates saddled with ballooning student loan debts is threatening to develop into a fresh crisis for the government, with Martin Lewis leading […]Nicola Slawson, Rupert Jones and Zoe Wood
- Bad and getting worse: for students like me, the loan system is the disaster that never ends | Rohan Sathyamoorthy February 6, 2026The current situation in England and Wales is akin to generational warfare – Martin Lewis is right when he takes ministers to taskAs someone who receives close to the maximum student loan from the government each year, I try my best not to think too hard about the crushing financial burden I am going to […]Rohan Sathyamoorthy
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