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• Manchester University to offer work placements to all undergraduates May 26, 2026
  Russell Group university promises students, from chemical engineering to classics, ‘meaningful real-world experience’A leading UK university is promising work placements to all undergraduates regardless of their degree, to better equip them for the challenges of the job market.In what appears to be a first for a large Russell Group institution, the University of Manchester is […]
  Sally Weale Education correspondent
• The Guardian view on support for youth: someone in government should grab hold of school sports | Editorial May 26, 2026
  With concerns about childhood obesity and screen use sky-high, cuts to primary PE are an unforced errorWith remarkably poor timing, days before closing a consultation on children’s social media use, the government announced last week that it is cutting an annual £320m sports premium for primary schools in England. A new scheme worth £193m will […]
  Editorial
• ‘We can stitch together our past’: the AI-generated time-travellers vlogging from history May 26, 2026
  The content creators behind channels like Chloe VS History are using AI tools to ‘bring history to life in a really visceral way’“I have just arrived in Tudor London, 1536,” a young woman in a green puffer jacket tells the camera. “I’m going to check in at my room in the inn, get into the […]
  Priya Bharadia
• ‘Massive’ child abuse scandal in France as school staff investigated for violence and sexual assault May 25, 2026
  Paris police looking into more than 100 allegations of mistreatment by ‘monitors’ after parents’ groups said they had fought for years to be taken seriouslyFrance is facing a child abuse scandal as ‘monitors’ at dozens of state nursery and primary schools are investigated for violence, sexual assault and rape.Paris police are examining more than 100 […]
  Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
• UK universities warn of cuts for impoverished students if dire funding issues continue May 24, 2026
  Nearly a third of vice-chancellors would cut hardship support if necessary over next three years, according to pollVice-chancellors have said they may need to cut hardship support for impoverished students and reduce outreach activities aimed at disadvantaged groups if the dire funding struggles at universities continue.The anonymous poll of leaders by Universities UK (UUK) revealed […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• Labour to expand youth work experience and training schemes May 24, 2026
  Announcement comes after former minister Alan Milburn says Britain has neglected a generation of young peopleMinisters are expanding youth work-experience and training schemes, after Alan Milburn warned Britain is spending £25 keeping young people on benefits for every £1 spent helping them into work.Pat McFadden, the work and pensions secretary, will announce plans for 300,000 […]
  Aletha Adu Political correspondent
• I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human | Wendy Liu May 24, 2026
  As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous moveLong before the age of multi-billion-dollar AI companies promising to disrupt the field of software development, I was learning to code the hard way.It was the mid-2000s, and I was a child with […]
  Wendy Liu
• Pioneering study aims to find out how repeated blows to head in women’s rugby affects brain May 24, 2026
  Risk of CTE in men’s sports has been widely studied, but female brains are softer and more vulnerableCleo Pallister-Turley, a forward for Cardiff university’s women’s rugby team, winces as she recalls two major concussions from playing rugby. “Girls ask me, ‘aren’t you worried about getting injured?’,” the biomedical sciences student said. “I enjoy the physicality […]
  Bethan McKernan Wales correspondent