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• Headteachers consider leaving jobs earlier than planned after new Ofsted inspection November 10, 2026
  Almost two-thirds of school leaders polled say new regime is much more intense than previous frameworkMore than half of headteachers in England who were polled after their schools were inspected under Ofsted’s new regime are considering cutting short their careers as a result of the experience.In response to the question “Has the inspection affected how […]
  Sally Weale Education correspondent
• Barnsley workers strike over nursery privatisation by Reform council November 9, 2026
  Women say move will be ‘massively detrimental’ to services for vulnerable children, and hit their own pensionsThe 33 women waving banners outside a nursery in the South Yorkshire village of Grimethorpe have never been on strike before.Passing cars beep their horns in support of the workers, who have taken action at six nurseries run by […]
  Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent
• Hometown glory? Norwegian library unveils £100k history book donated by Erling Haaland November 9, 2026
  Rare 16th-century edition of Viking royal sagas given to Bryne by Manchester City footballer and his fatherAt his local library in the southern Norwegian town of Bryne, the father of superstar striker Erling Haaland made a confession. “Sometimes my son and I are a little impulsive,” Alf Inge Haaland, known as Alfie, told the assembled […]
  Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent
• Parents and teachers decry Google pledge to yank Search if schools block AI: ‘This threat is nothing but extortion’ November 9, 2026
  Company says schools should control student AI use, but if they block its AI tools, they’ll lose access to search engineParents and teachers across the US are criticizing Google’s announcement that schools choosing to block AI tools could also lose access to Google Search.Google announced last week a range of new AI tools for schools […]
  Maya Yang
• Fixing UK’s youth jobs crisis demands much more investment, TUC boss warns November 9, 2026
  Paul Nowak also calls on government to avoid arbitrary benefit cuts before much-anticipated Milburn report is published this weekFixing Britain’s youth jobs crisis will require ministers to drastically increase investment in employment support while avoiding arbitrary cuts to benefits, the head of the trade union movement has said.Before an important official report expected next week, […]
  Richard Partington Senior economics correspondent
• Teaching GCSE topics younger risks turning schools into ‘early exam factories’, Powell warns November 9, 2026
  Lucy Powell says proposals to end widespread practice will be included in overhaul of England’s national curriculum Pushing GCSE subjects on younger pupils risks turning England’s secondary schools into “early exam factories”, the education secretary has said, warning that it is increasing disengagement from education.Lucy Powell wants schools to end the widespread practice of teaching […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• Abdul El-Sayed’s Oxford years: PhD, political influences and sporting distinction November 8, 2026
  Michigan senator-elect’s former peers recall his time at university in Britain – and his love of coronation chicken sandwichesIn the cold, twilight days of 2008, inside the University of Michigan’s fortress-like Fleming administration building, one student was given a particularly adulatory sendoff.Mary Sue Coleman, president of the university at the time, convened a ceremony for […]
  Sammy Gecsoyler
• ‘I just got AI emails rejecting my application – or no reply at all’: this is the soul-crushing reality of being a Neet | John Harris November 8, 2026
  Alan Milburn describes them as a ‘lost generation’. Those I spoke to just want to know what they have to do to finally get a job – and a chance in lifeCallum Atkinson is 23 years old, and lives in the Greater Manchester town of Rochdale. Until very recently, he was one of hundreds of […]
  John Harris