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• Ghanaian students at UK universities face deportation amid funding crisis December 14, 2025
  Group asks Keir Starmer for help to persuade Ghanaian government to pay backlog of tuition fees and living allowancesStudents from Ghana at UK universities say they are in danger of being deported after being stranded by their own government without promised scholarships or tuition fee payments.The group representing more than 100 doctoral students has petitioned […]
  Richard Adams and Eromo Egbejule
• Pens at the ready! A gen-Z trainee takes on the Guardian’s ‘scribbler-in-chief’ December 14, 2025
  As the exam regulator consults about introducing onscreen exams amid complaints of hand fatigue, a young aspiring journalist goes head-to-head with a self-professed expertThis week it was reported that students could soon be sitting their end-of-year exams on laptops after pupils complained of hand fatigue, saying their muscles “are not strong enough”.With Ofqual preparing to […]
  Zoe Williams and George Francis Lee
• City & Guilds to shrink UK workforce amid £22m cost-cutting drive December 14, 2025
  Training and qualifications body, acquired by private Greek firm in October, to become ‘leaner organisation’The training and qualifications body City & Guilds is shrinking its UK workforce as part of a £22m cost-cutting drive after it was acquired by a private Greek business in October.Founded in 1878 by the City of London and a group […]
  Simon Goodley
• South Korea exam chief quits after complaints English test was too hard December 12, 2025
  Notoriously difficult entrance exam is regarded as gateway to economic security and even a good marriageThe chief organiser of South Korea’s notoriously gruelling university entrance exams has resigned – after complaints that an English test he designed was too difficult.Passing the exam, known locally as the Suneung, is essential for admission to prestigious universities and […]
  Agence France-Presse in Seoul
• Labour to create up to 60,000 spaces for children with Send in English schools December 11, 2025
  Bridget Phillipson says £3bn scheme focussed on local state schools will ‘transform lives’, after rise in parent appealsThe government is to invest £3bn in creating bespoke places within local state schools for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (Send), a crucial part of its efforts to grapple with England’s rising numbers of children facing […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• UK students: are you living at home while you’re at university? December 11, 2025
  We’d like to hear from UK students who are – or are planning to – live at home while studying at universityWe’d like to find out about students who are living at home while studying at university, rather than living in student accommodation or a flat share.Why have you taken the decision to live at […]
  Guardian community team
• Eight more UK universities cut recruitment ties with fossil fuel industry December 11, 2025
  Manchester Metropolitan University again wins top spot for climate and social justice in league table More universities have severed ties with fossil fuel companies, banning them from recruitment fairs and refusing to advertise roles in the industry, according to the latest higher education league table.The analysis found that eight more universities had signed up to […]
  Matthew Taylor
• How can abuse openly take place in a nursery? This is the question we must urgently reckon with | Munira Wilson December 11, 2025
  No parent should worry about their child’s safety while they work. But a crisis in our early-years sector is shielding predators such as Vincent ChanI remember those initial heart-wrenching days and weeks leaving my daughter, aged nine months, at the nursery. She was distraught as I left, and I – like so many parents – […]
  Munira Wilson