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Ruth Glover, chief executive of Springboard Opportunity Group, a specialist early years charity supporting children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their families, calls on early years workers and parents to respond to the ongoing consultation around SEND reforms before it...
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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...
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Read SummaryRuth Glover, chief executive of Springboard Opportunity Group, a specialist early years charity supporting children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their families, calls on early years workers and parents to respond to the ongoing consultation around SEND reforms before it...
Read SummaryMerged 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...
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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 dif...
More than 70 million warnings have been issued to internet users attempting to access sexual images of children online over the past two years, according to data from the Lucy Faithfull Foundation. The figures highlight the alarming scale of demand for child sexual abuse material and the critical role of preventative technology in safeguarding children.
Today, I am in Carlisle, starting a journey across England with a simple but important purpose: to hear directly from children about their lives. I want to find out what they love, what worries them and what they want decision makers to do to make childhood better. Far too often, decisions about chi...
New analysis by the Education Policy Institute suggests internal exclusions may not be effective at reducing external suspensions in schools. The research found only tentative correlations between the use of internal isolation and fewer formal suspensions, challenging assumptions about behaviour management approaches.
St John the Divine in Kennington has established one of the UK’s largest youth choral programmes, offering children from deprived areas access to prestigious musical scholarships including places at St Paul’s Cathedral School. Seven-year-old N’raeah represents the transformative potential of these initiatives, demonstrating how community-based youth provision can open doors to elite educational opportunities traditionally reserved for the privileged.
The Princess of Wales has visited the Loris Malaguzzi International Centre and a pre-school in Italy to learn more about the Reggio Emilia Approach to childcare.
Ofsted has announced that apprenticeship unit providers will not face inspections until at least April 2027, granting the sector a year's respite to develop effective delivery models. The pause aims to allow providers time to establish robust frameworks before regulatory scrutiny resumes.
King Charles also outlines commitment to 'continue to invest in apprenticeships and tackle youth unemployment' The post ‘Education for all’: SEND reform bill confirmed in King’s Speech 2026 first appeared on FE Week.
King's Speech outlines 'generational reforms' to the SEND system The post ‘Education for all’: SEND reform bill announced first appeared on Schools Week.
Parents impacted by the proposed closure of an on-campus nursery in Sheffield have criticised Sheffield Hallam University’s (SHU) approach to offering funded hours as a key reason for a decline in numbers using the setting.
The chief executive of the British Dyslexia Association, Ellen Broome, has warned that early identification of dyslexia in children is often inconsistent or completely absent across local authorities. New research reveals a significant gap in how councils identify and support this specific learning difficulty, prompting calls for systematic screening rather than optional provision.
The UK’s leading infant sleep charity and an MP have written to Health Secretary Wes Streeting backing campaigners calls to crack down on self-described experts giving unsafe infant sleep advice to parents.