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• Northern Ireland schools must give girls option to wear trousers from next year September 11, 2026
  DUP education minister accused of dragging feet before revising guidelines on uniformSchools in Northern Ireland must give girls the choice to wear trousers as part of their uniforms as well as for PE and games, according to revised guidelines.From next year schools would no longer be able to prohibit female pupils from wearing trousers, Paul […]
  Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent
• Mail on Sunday ends up funding state school scholarship via payout to MP September 11, 2026
  Labour’s Catherine Atkinson says she will give students £5,000 paid to her by paper that falsely accused her of concealing private school educationA new scholarship supporting state-educated students will be inadvertently funded by the Mail on Sunday (MoS), using a payout it made after being threatened with legal action by the Labour MP Catherine Atkinson.The […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• The Smithsonian chief’s exit is a blow to democracy | Kimberlé Crenshaw and Jason Stanley September 11, 2026
  The Trump administration wants a feel-good version of American history. That is not a feature of a democratic systemOn Tuesday, Lonnie G Bunch III announced he would step down as the 14th secretary of the Smithsonian.Bunch was the first historian to lead the august institution, as well as the first African American. His retirement comes […]
  Kimberlé Crenshaw and Jason Stanley
• How Ron DeSantis politicized Florida’s higher education by placing his loyalists at the top September 11, 2026
  Term-limited, hard-right governor instituted an ideological infiltration of universities by placing allies in powerful postsIn less than four months’ time, Ron DeSantis, Florida’s hard-right governor, will be termed out of office, and what critics saw as his relentless eight-year, “anti-woke” assault on higher education in the state will finally be over.But while DeSantis himself will […]
  Richard Luscombe in Miami
• Pupils missed 15m hours of school time during UK’s June heatwave, study finds September 11, 2026
  At least 760,000 children in England and Wales missed lessons as more than 1,700 schools closed or finished earlyThe gruelling heatwave that hit the UK in June caused pupils to miss more than 15m hours of lesson time as soaring temperatures forced hundreds of schools to close, according to a study.The research found that at […]
  Matthew Taylor
• Francophiles, Norman outfits and broken threads: visitors see Bayeux tapestry in UK for first time September 10, 2026
  Visitors got a first glimpse of the medieval artefact after it went on display at the British Museum in LondonOn the day Bayeux tapestry tickets were released, Megan Stockwell was at the beach. She was so determined to lock down her spot, that she sat with her toes in the sand for an hour, waiting […]
  Rachel Hall
• Many teachers disagree with hardline attendance policies, report suggests September 9, 2026
  Staff at schools in England say enforcement is ‘relentless’ and occasional holiday less worrying than disengagementTeachers 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 the school […]
  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