“Wear more clothes,” the Education Authority advises the staff and pupils of north of Ireland’s schools. Gas is dearer, electricity is dearer, and so the child must come to class more thickly wrapped. The authority has discovered a remarkably simple…
The threat of coordinated strike action has forced the government to abandon plans that would have made schools fund part of England’s latest teacher pay rise by cutting into their existing budgets. Members of the National Education Union (NEU), the…
Britain’s universities are being pushed towards another round of cuts as international student applications fall and a funding model built on fees and debt begins to crack. Home Office figures show that student visa applications fell by 11 percent in…
The government’s new limit on branded school uniform is a small retreat from an unfair system, but it won’t make uniforms affordable for many working-class families. From September, schools will be allowed to require a maximum of three items carrying…
