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• English secondary schools must offer inclusion areas for neurodiverse and Send pupils February 11, 2026
  Special spaces are a key part of government’s planned overhaul of special educational needs supportSecondary schools in England must provide specially designed areas for neurodiverse children and pupils with special educational needs, ministers have said.Universal “inclusion bases” are spaces away from classrooms where children with additional needs can get support for some lessons. They are […]
  Alexandra Topping Political correspondent
• School phone policies in England a ‘huge drain’ on staff resources – study February 10, 2026
  Teachers and admin teams spend 100 hours a week enforcing rules, Birmingham University research findsSmartphone policies in English secondary schools are a “huge drain” on resources, with staff spending on average more than 100 hours a week enforcing restrictions, according to research.Teachers, teaching assistants, caretakers and receptionists are involved with helping to police pupils’ smartphone […]
  Sally Weale Education correspondent
• ‘So shameful’: backlash as US national monuments conform to Trump’s rewrite of history February 10, 2026
  From Pennsylvania to Montana, the White House’s war on ‘woke’ has targeted US monuments that address topics like racism and Indigenous historyBlank spaces now exist where a series of panels about enslavement once appeared on the walls of the President’s House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The site, which honors the home of George Washington and John […]
  Melissa Hellmann
• Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump’s immigration crackdown February 10, 2026
  Local police assisted federal immigration agents by repeatedly searching school cameras that record license plate numbers, data showPolice departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by the 74 reveals.Hundreds of thousands of audit logs spanning a month show police are searching […]
  Mark Keierleber of the 74
• Spanish is clearly now the world’s coolest language. So why do we push children to learn French? | Gary Nunn February 10, 2026
  As Bad Bunny showed at the Super Bowl, español is the coming thing. No wonder it’s now the top GCSE language choice“Now, Gary, repeat after me: Quiero una margarita, por favor,” my Spanish tutor instructs. I cringe at the butchered Spanglish my estuary accent produces. Like Del Boy Trotter ordering a cocktail: “Key – yeah […]
  Gary Nunn
• Rethinking Economics, the movement changing how the subject is taught February 10, 2026
  Born of student disquiet after the 2008 crash, the group says it is reshaping economists’ educationAs the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a group of students at Harvard University in the US walked out of their introductory economics class complaining it was teaching a “specific and limited view” that […]
  Matthew Taylor Environment correspondent
• ‘I saw the writing on the wall’: Austria offers safe haven for US academics as Trump wages war on universities February 10, 2026
  Other countries benefit from the Trump brain drain as administration wages war on academia and researchWali Malik no longer has to worry that a rightwing bureaucrat – or influencer – will decide his research is “woke”.He doesn’t have to fear government retaliation for speaking his mind or following the science wherever it may lead. And […]
  Charles Davis
• Reform-led Worcestershire set to issue England’s largest council tax rise February 9, 2026
  Cap-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