Education News
- Students scramble for accommodation after provider goes bust in Dundee September 19, 2026Case highlights severe financial strain on sector across UK as string of university housing schemes failAre you having problems with your accommodation provider?Nearly 70 students in Dundee have been left scrambling to find accommodation for this academic year after the latest in a string of university housing schemes went bust amid severe financial strain on […]Julia Kollewe and Amee Joshi
- After 20 years of my school dinners campaign, I’m a happy man. At last, we’re going to feed kids properly | Jamie Oliver September 19, 2026This week’s government announcement on school food standards is huge. It’s based on common sense and science. Beautiful!More than 20 years ago, when I started the campaign and TV series School Dinners, I couldn’t believe that we had standards for dog food but no standards for the food we fed our children at school. I […]Jamie Oliver
- European education powerhouses rocked by falling scores in global study September 19, 2026France and Germany among countries with low Pisa scores, which show how well 15-year-olds use school learning in lifeFrance’s were its worst ever. Germany’s, too. In the Netherlands, results also tumbled to all-time lows. Even in Finland, Europe’s much-vaunted schools champion and a global leader for decades, scores plummeted.The 2025 Pisa scores, which assess how […]Jon Henley, Deborah Cole in Berlin, Angelique Chrisafis in Paris and Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent
- Singapore is paying people to read books – can it fix the reading crisis? September 18, 2026A government scheme is giving citizens cash for spending time with a good book. We ask behavioural scientists, along with The Anxious Generation author and psychologist Jonathan Haidt, whether it’ll help make the habit stickCould the solution to the reading crisis lie in paying people to put down their phones and pick up a book? […]Ella Creamer
- ‘It was a mess. I had to do something’: the personal struggle that inspired rap star Giggs to start a special needs school September 18, 2026After a battle to get his autistic children properly assessed, the London MC has co-founded a specialist centre in Kent to help neurodivergent kids realise their potentialIt has been a busy few weeks for the London rapper Giggs. Two weeks ago, he was in New Jersey with his fiancee Valerie as she gave birth to […]Ian Gittins
- Think it’s time for gen Z to ‘grow up’? You’re even more out of touch than the British state | Gaby Hinsliff September 18, 2026We can’t expect young people to make a seamless transition from childhood to adulthood in this chilly economic climate. Finally, Westminster is catching onWhen did you realise you had finally grown up? It’s a trick question, obviously: maturity is just realising that life is full of things you don’t feel old enough for but somehow […]Gaby Hinsliff
- Former student of suspended Reform official ‘reopens case’ against University of Cambridge September 17, 2026Cambridge previously paid £5,000 compensation after an investigation partially upheld allegations against Dr James OrrA former student of James Orr who was found to have been bullied by the suspended senior Reform UK figure is reopening a case against the University of Cambridge, after apparent discrepancies emerged over the university’s handling of the incident.The former […]Ben Quinn and Rowena Mason
- Bad Apples review – Saoirse Ronan’s suffering teacher best thing about school horror-satire September 17, 2026Ronan plays a teacher who finds a way to deal with a disruptive pupil in Jonatan Etzler’s implausible film, but it’s not shocking or funny enoughHere is a strange, heavy-handed and unpersuasive black comedy which owes what success it has to the star-power of its lead, Saoirse Ronan, who is incapable of giving an uninteresting […]Peter Bradshaw
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