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Andy Burnham has said Britain "must be bolder to get closer to the European Union" as universities raise concerns over European student fees.

An Afghan refugee now working as a maths teacher has been allowed to keep his job despite exchanging more than 200 emails with a vulnerable schoolgirl, including messages sent late at night.

A fundraiser for Jason Arday’s family has exceeded £100,000 after the late former Cambridge University professor was found dead in his London home.

The universities of Greenwich and Kent have merged into the UK’s first "super-university".

A historic UK school opened in 1415 closed at the end of this school year after ’financial challenge’.

New technical education routes will be available to 14-year-olds as Andy Burnham drives reforms to tackle youth unemployment.

A boy of immigrant parents raised on a south London council estate, who couldn’t speak, read or write for most of his childhood, overcomes such astonishing odds to become, at 37, the youngest black professor at the University of Cambridge.

A decade ago, the state of Florida stripped a teacher of her license for sexual abuse of a 16-year-old boy. Last year, she opened a private school there with ease.

The EPPO in Portugal indicted 12 individuals and three companies for defrauding RRF-funded public education projects.

Across the UK, the Muslim population is getting younger. The Muslim Council of Britain estimates that by 2031 there will be around 552,000 Muslim teenagers in Britain — a demographic that will play a growing role in shaping the country’s cities, schools and civic life.

Education minister Olivia Bailey said private schools are “responsible for ensuring their long-term viability” and “free to make their own business decisions”, but she was “shocked” at Galaxy Global Education’s (GGE) behaviour.

Many a woman would have killed for such a romantic proposal. Spelled out carefully in the yellow and purple of the couple’s college colors, Daniel Bryant used the fabric on the golden sands of Myrtle Beach to ask ’Lesli, marry me?!’

A brand new school that cost £31million to build is set to be demolished in a shocking “waste of taxpayers’ money”.

A headteacher used school funding to buy a car for herself to drive to France, having changed term dates to fit her holidays.

An Indonesian ‌court on Tuesday ruled that Nadiem Makarim, co-founder of tech firm Gojek and a former education minister, was guilty of some charges in a corruption case and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is currently escalating his bid to scrap the Equality Act – which prohibits discrimination against anyone – by blaming ethnic minorities for the poor educational performance of white working class boys.

Andy Burnham will set out plans for a ’No10 in the North’ in a speech outlining his vision to unleash what has been billed as the biggest shift of power away from London in modern history.

Almost £24.4bn of government money went to private equity-run firms in year to April 2025, Guardian analysis shows.

Thousands of pupils will either not be able to attend school this week or will head home earlier than usual because of full or partial school closures amid the extreme heat.

A five-year-old student at one of Scotland’s most prestigious private schools attended class with ’cocaine’ in their bag.

CCTV footage shows the man, dressed in dark clothes, approaching the house on Eastgrove Avenue, Bolton, on Wednesday evening, before pouring liquid on a cloth and setting it alight.

Staff at the British Council in Italy will go on strike over deep cuts that would slash about 80% of its workforce due to a funding crisis facing the organisation.

Nine universities have initiated legal action against the government in a dispute over students being asked to repay loans that were "issued in error".