Shouball

Education News

• After viral graduation walk, paraplegic student calls for greater accessibility: ‘It doesn’t have to be so hard’ May 15, 2026
  After a truck accident left him paralyzed, Jaiden Picot crossed his graduation stage in a robotic exoskeletonJaiden Picot, who was paralyzed in 2024 after a truck hit him, never imagined that video of him recently walking across Virginia Union University (VUU)‘s graduation stage in a futuristic robotic suit would go viral.But since it did, he […]
  Ramon Antonio Vargas
• King’s College and Cranfield hope to be stronger together in surprise merger May 15, 2026
  News will come as a shock to staff, especially at Cranfield, but the institutions’ bosses say intention is growthThe announcement that King’s College London is to absorb Cranfield University came as a surprise but not a shock to England’s higher education leaders, who have been braced for sudden announcements about job cuts and course closures.But […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• King’s College London to merge with Cranfield University May 14, 2026
  Merged institution will become second largest mainstream university in UK with about 47,000 studentsKing’s College London has agreed to merge with Cranfield University, creating a new UK “super-university” that would rival many of its international competitors in size and research output.The merger would result in King’s taking on another 5,000 mainly postgraduate students and becoming […]
  Richard Adams and Sally Weale
• Privately educated CEOs seen as ‘safer bet’ by investors, study finds May 14, 2026
  Privilege being mistaken for competence as study reveals no evidence to suggest companies run by state-educated peers underperformChief executives who attended private school are perceived by investors as a “safer bet”, according to a study, despite there being no evidence they perform or behave differently to their state-educated counterparts.Companies run by privately educated bosses tend […]
  Joanna Partridge
• The south London community where ‘pioneering’ scholarship choristers are made May 13, 2026
  St John the Divine, Kennington has built one of UK’s largest youth choral programmes in area marked by deprivation St Paul’s Cathedral school, one of the UK’s most prestigious private schools, has long been associated with the musical elite. So was seven-year-old N’raeah, from south London, nervous about auditioning for its internationally renowned choir?“No,” she […]
  Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent
• US university’s commencement speaker reveals he will pay off students’ final-year loans May 12, 2026
  Anil Kochhar hopes textile graduates of North Carolina State can leave with ‘greater freedom to pursue goals’Anil Kochhar, a North Carolina State University donor, gave graduates of the school’s Wilson College of Textiles a lot more than just words of wisdom when he delivered their keynote commencement address recently.The Indian American entrepreneur also announced that […]
  Ramon Antonio Vargas
• Thousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancy May 12, 2026
  Institution says it could run out of money by 2031 and wants to cut more than 600 academic and support postsThousands of staff at the University of Nottingham have been told to prepare for redundancy as part of swingeing financial cuts that academics say will harm the institution’s future.The university’s administration sent letters to 2,700 […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• My kids are taking their first big exams – and revealing my own anxieties about AI and long division | Emma Brockes May 7, 2026
  As the traditional route of school, university and entry-level job is ever more precarious, it’s no wonder parents are feeling the strainCalled on to do long division, how would you fare? I had no illusions going in. I couldn’t do it the first time round and, four decades later, it seemed unlikely the situation had […]
  Emma Brockes