Education
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11‘I just give from my heart’: how Dolly Parton’s philanthropy focused most on helping children
Parton put her millions behind causes she believed in – from Covid vaccines to the Imagination Library, which sends children around the...
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13Year of after-school care now costs £2,800 a child in parts of UK
Bills have jumped 42% in England over the past 10 years – and that excludes the cost of breakfast clubs and extracurricular...
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14We would like to hear from young people in England who didn’t pass English and/or Maths GCSE
How did it affect your plans for either further education or getting a job? Did you go through resits? Tell us The...
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13UK graduate job vacancies plunge to lowest in a decade
Just 8,383 jobs for people leaving university were advertised in July, says recruitment website AdzunaBusiness live – latest updatesGraduate job vacancies in...
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24Labour stalling on Jackdaw and Rosebank because ‘heart’s not really in it’, says Badenoch – as it happened
This blog is now closed. See all our UK politics coverage hereAfter Emily Thornberry’s call for the government to ban goods from...
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18I asked 13 college grads for dorm essentials that stood the test of time
I asked 13 people about the things they have carried from college into adulthood –and found their modern day equivalents21 things tweens...
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28Leaders attack ‘demotivating’ plan to make pupils who fail GCSEs retake maths and English
Government confirms plan for ‘stepping stone’ qualification in England as students face retaking maths or English after failure to achieve grade 4The...
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23Academic who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism suspended by his university
Researcher Nathan Cofnas previously claimed Black people would hold few high-profile positions in a meritocracyNathan Cofnas, the academic who made plagiarism allegations...
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21UK minister criticises misogynistic social media culture | Politics Weekly
Racism and misogyny are becoming normalised as a result of rightwing politics and the ‘cesspit’ of social media, according to Labour’s Bridget...
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17GCSE results: girls still ahead but gender gap narrows as hundreds of thousands of pupils receive grades – as it happened
Nearly a quarter of girls’ entries received one of the higher grades against around a fifth of those from boysAlmost one in...
