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Disabled actor to play Richard III at RSC
It is the first time the company has cast a disabled actor in a lead role.
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Tens of thousands of children absent from England’s schools, children’s commissioner says
Tens of thousands of children in England are persistently absent from schools, according to a new report from the Children’s Commissioner, including some who haven’t returned after the pandemic lockdowns.
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Government’s decision on exams is the right one, says education committee chair
We spoke to the chair of the education select committee, Conservative MP Robert Halfon.
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GCSEs and A-Level exams in 2022 to be graded more generously
Exams across Britain will be graded more generously this year to take account of the disruption to education caused by the pandemic.
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Credit Suisse boss resigns after breaching Covid rules
Novak Djokovic isn’t the only person in the world of tennis to fall foul of Covid rules.
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Vulnerable children left at risk of harm for too long, say Ofsted
Too many vulnerable children have been left at risk of harm for far too long, according to Ofsted Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman.
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Jamie Oliver on schools meals crusade again
15 years after his first crusade to improve school meals, Jamie Oliver is again warning that too many schools are dishing out junk food, fizzy drinks and sweets, while levels of child obesity are on the rise.
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Students at all-female Cambridge college to be given fertility lessons
Students at an all female Cambridge college will be given lessons on fertility – after the college’s new president said she wanted to stop young women “forgetting to have a baby” until it was too late.
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Anti-vaccine campaigners targeting secondary schools after jabs go-ahead for 12-15s
New figures show that one in 20 young people at secondary school in England are estimated to have had coronavirus last week.
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Freshers week: How students and universities are coping after Covid disruption
We were joined by Professor Peter Slee, the vice chancellor of Leeds Beckett University, and by Stephanie Macaulay, a third year student in the business school at Leeds Beckett.
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Universities reopen their doors after Covid causes worst disruption since WW2
Over the next two weeks in Leeds, more than 70,000 students will arrive at the city’s five separate universities.
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Drive to tackle inequality ‘put off track a bit’ by pandemic, education minister says
We spoke to Education Minister Gillian Keegan and began by asking how much confidence there should be in today’s results.
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GCSE results: Students achieve record number of top grades
Students have won record numbers of top GCSE grades after another year of cancelled exams and disrupted education. Almost a third of students in England and Wales got the highest marks – rising to 40 per cent in Northern Ireland. But the gap in outcomes has widened between state and private schools. Throughout the pandemic,…
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Moments of joy for A-level students from some of the most disadvantaged backgrounds
It’s been A-level results day for students in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, and despite all the disruption caused by the pandemic, record numbers of them have won top grades.
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‘Nobody should be diminishing those results’ A-level students have achieved, says Universities Minister Michelle Donelan
We spoke to the Universities Minister Michelle Donelan, and began by putting it to her that if you can’t compare these results to any other year – as her boss Gavin Williamson said – then doesn’t that defeat the point of the exam system?