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Voices: ‘It’s a waste of money’: Readers on the classroom phone fix dividing teachers

Our readers weigh in on lockable phone pouches, which schools have been rolling out since the government made smartphone-free policies mandatory – with teachers and parents split on whether they're the right fix.

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Early Years Aug 4, 2026

Bright Stars launches grandparent recruitment campaign

The UK’s fourth biggest nursery chain is launching a recruitment campaign to attract grandparents into the early years sector.

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Early Years Aug 4, 2026

Government urged to ‘recognise importance’ of therapeutic play

Therapeutic play must be recognised as an essential healthcare intervention rather than an optional extra, The Association of British Paediatric Nurses (ABPN) has said.

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Voices: ‘It’s a waste of money’: Readers on the classroom phone fix dividing teachers

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Early Years 1 month ago

Bright Stars launches grandparent recruitment campaign

The UK’s fourth biggest nursery chain is launching a recruitment campaign to attract grandparents into the early years sector.

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Early Years 1 month ago

Government urged to ‘recognise importance’ of therapeutic play

Therapeutic play must be recognised as an essential healthcare intervention rather than an optional extra, The Association of British Paediatric Nurses (ABPN) has said.

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Education Aug 4, 2026

Scottish students achieve record pass rate on exam results day

Scotland’s Education Secretary, Mairi McAllan, described the outcomes as ‘incredibly positive’

Education Aug 4, 2026

‘The war leaked into every lesson’: learning Ukrainian in a country under siege

Soon after my first visit to Ukraine four years ago, I began language lessons. It taught me more than I ever expectedAlmost as soon as I returned from my first reporting trip to Ukraine, in October 2022, I decided to start Ukrainian lessons. Not as an act of solidarity, exactly, but as a marker that...

Education Aug 3, 2026

Why keeping youth discontent in check remains Indian PM Modi's biggest challenge

India has the biggest youth population in the world but few are able to find good jobs despite rising education levels.

Education Aug 3, 2026

Children using social media at younger age appear to do worse in school tests

Pupils who open accounts aged 11 to 12 score lower in some subjects than those who wait a few years, study findsChildren who open social media accounts at the start of secondary school appear to perform worse in tests than those who delay, with researchers suspecting that the constant checking for u...

Education Aug 3, 2026

Montessori learning is being shut down at Leah’s school – is a push towards ‘explicit instruction’ to blame?

Critics say the one size-fits-all approach doesn’t work for all students and there are questions about the body that helped design itMichelle’s year-eight daughter, Leah*, has been in and out of hospital since birth with complex medical issues, and Michelle says flexible learning through a Montessor...

Social Care Aug 3, 2026

Reflecting on The Big Future so far

When I launched The Big Future survey earlier this year, I set the ambitious goal of hearing directly from a million children and young people about their lives and the future they want.   Just ten weeks on from the launch of the survey, more than 600,000 chil...

Education Aug 3, 2026

‘I want to be ripped to shreds’: writers flock to MFAs - but does it breed elitist literature?

Thousands of budding US novelists enlist in courses each year, hoping to gain credentials that often influence who gets publishedThomas Pynchon was known to avoid the press and refuse interviews. There are only two official photographs of the Gravity’s Rainbow author available publicly – one taken a...

Education Aug 3, 2026

How parents and pupils took on 'cruel', 'authoritarian' schools - and won

Discipline at an academy trust went too far - parents, pupils and former teachers tell BBC Panorama.

Education Aug 3, 2026

UK’s first ‘super-university’, merging Greenwich and Kent, to launch in September

The new London and South East University Group will be UK’s third largest higher education institutionThe UK’s first “super-university”, which will merge the universities of Greenwich and Kent, is set to launch in September.The new London and South East University Group, to be known as the LASEUG, w...

Education Aug 2, 2026

Inside Sydney’s hottest nightspot, where shoes are off, laptops are on and customers drink matcha

A ‘study cafe’ has opened on the site that once housed the radical Gould’s Book Arcade – and students are paying by the hour to be thereGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIn a cavernous space once occupied by a radical bookshop, the big lights are off, laptops are out, lo-fi...

Education Aug 2, 2026

‘Tiger mum’ Lucy Powell on Labour’s vocational skills drive: ‘It’s about ambition for everybody’

New education secretary says it is ‘false trade-off’ by critics to suggest schools cannot pursue academic excellence alongside technical skillsLucy Powell has said she wants to be an ambitious “tiger mum” for all young people, whatever their route through education, after the government was accused...

Education Aug 2, 2026

Could a couch-to-5k for books get you back into reading?

With smartphones stealing our attention, we’re picking up fewer books than ever. A novelist shares her eight-week scheme to get you back into the habitDo you feel that it’s harder to read than it used to be? Not harder to read emails, texts and social media posts, of course. We’re reading those all...

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