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- Labour’s Send reforms get this right: disabled children in mainstream schools is transformative for everyone | Frances Ryan February 26, 2026It doesn’t fit neatly on a Treasury spreadsheet, but there is huge value in disabled and non-disabled pupils learning togetherWhen I was 11, a woman at the hospital asked me what school I was starting in September. I still remember her surprise when I told her I would be going to the local girls grammar, […]Frances Ryan
- Labour ministers exploring ways of easing burden of plan 2 student loans February 25, 2026Government looking at options such as increasing loan repayment thresholds amid growing pressureMinisters are examining ways to ease the burden of student loans after weeks of pressure over a policy pulling more people into repayments, the Guardian understands.The Treasury and the Department for Education are reviewing different options to offer relief to those with plan […]Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor
- Homeschooled by Stefan Merrill Block review – a true ‘Misery’ memoir February 25, 2026A compelling and fitfully harrowing child’s-eye account of a mother’s unravellingStefan Merrill Block was nine when his mother pulled him out of school. It was the early 1990s and the family had recently moved from Indianapolis to Plano, Texas, where Block’s father had started a new job. While Block and his older brother, Aaron, had […]Fiona Sturges
- US justice department sues UCLA over alleged antisemitism amid pro-Palestinian protests February 25, 2026Lawsuit is latest action by Trump administration against a university and escalation of president’s feud with CaliforniaThe justice department sued the University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday, alleging the university created a hostile work environment for Jewish and Israeli faculty and staff after protests against the war on Gaza broke out across campus.The lawsuit […]Cecilia Nowell
- Send plan for England gets cautious welcome amid workload concerns February 24, 2026Education leaders and MPs say government needs to be careful about mental health impact on leaders and teachers in already overstretched sectorTeachers and schools face “a huge ask” implementing the government’s special needs proposals affecting hundreds of thousands of children, according to education leaders and MPs who otherwise gave the plans a cautious welcome.Under the […]Kiran Stacey and Richard Adams
- UK’s biggest student housing provider hit by fall in international enrolment February 24, 2026Unite Group cuts rents at some universities and raises cash by selling London site to joint venture for £186mBusiness live – latest updatesA drop in the number of international students coming to the UK has hit the student housing provider Unite Group, which lowered its profit outlook for the third time in four months as […]Julia Kollewe
- Why the student loans row is escalating and what it means for graduates February 24, 2026What is behind the growing anger over plan 2 student loans and what could reforms mean for graduates?Pressure is building on the government to reform the student loans system, with politicians and campaigners piling in, and a minister conceding there are “problems” with the current set-up.Yesterday the consumer champion Martin Lewis – who last month […]Rupert Jones
- Can Bridget Phillipson convince jaded families to have faith in Send changes? February 23, 2026Education secretary and her team have won over some critics but obstacles remain in their attempt to overhaul system In her first week as a cabinet minister Bridget Phillipson held a meeting for new Labour MPs with one subject – special educational needs. Almost 100 MPs came to that first meeting.There were new MPs for […]Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor
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