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Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson ‘ashamed’ of child poverty levels

The minister said the Government was looking at every way of reducing levels of child poverty, including benefits changes.

Evening Standard

Scheme offering free meals and activities to poorer pupils in holidays extended

It comes as working parents in England will be able to access 30 hours of funded childcare a week for children older than nine months from Monday.

Evening Standard

Young people ‘overdiagnosed’ with mental health conditions, Hunt says

Definitions of mental ill health and neurodivergence have been expanded, leading to overwhelm in the system, according to a new report

The Independent UK

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Young people being ‘overdiagnosed’ with mental ill health – Hunt

The former health secretary argued that society has ‘lost sight of the fundamental reality that child development is a messy and uneven process’.

Evening Standard

Trump’s education secretary Linda McMahon makes Long Island high school’s mascot a ‘top priority’

McMahon continues defense of New York schools fighting to hang onto indigneous names amid legal battles, lashing out at ‘woke ideologues’

The Independent UK

‘Broken’ immgration system spilling over into tensions in NI, DUP minister says

Unionist politicians have asked for investigations into the legal planning status of hotels in the region housing asylum seekers.

Evening Standard

Education Department Plans To Transfer Some Student Loans Operated By This Servicer By Year's End — Here's What We Know

The Education Department will begin shifting an unspecified number of federal student loans away from MOHELA to other servicers by year's end, according to recent correspondence between Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Education Secretary Linda McMahon.

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GCSE students receiving results ‘undoubtedly affected by Covid disruption’

The Education Secretary said students showed “remarkable resilience” despite the disruption to their education

The Independent UK

GCSE cohort receiving results ‘undoubtedly affected by Covid disruption’

Many of the pupils who sat their GCSEs this summer were in Year 6 when schools closed because of the pandemic.

Evening Standard

Disadvantaged white pupils have ‘particularly poor’ education outcomes, review says

The Education Secretary said it was a “national disgrace” that so many white working-class children are being “written off”

The Independent UK

Disadvantaged white pupils have ‘particularly poor’ education outcomes – report

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said it was a ‘disgrace’ that so many white, working-class children are being written off at school.

The Independent UK

The ten technical colleges that will train 40,000 construction workers

The government hopes the ten construction technical excellence colleges will help reduce reliance on foreign workers

The Independent UK

Phillipson ready to ‘redouble efforts’ to cut down on absent pupils

The Education Secretary wrote in The Daily Telegraph that tackling classroom absences was a ‘top priority’.

Evening Standard

Phillipson vows to tackle ‘thorny’ challenge facing white working-class pupils

The Education Secretary has called it is a ‘national disgrace’ that so many young people do not get what they need to progress after leaving school.

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

There is now a backlog of 27,000 student loan complaints at the Department of Education

Tens of thousands of complaints from student loan borrowers about their lenders or schools have gone ignored as Trump seeks to gut the agency

The Independent UK

Education Secretary Linda McMahon derailed by hacker’s clown music at conservative student event

Former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, president of the Young America's Foundation, blamed the Chinese Communist Party and liberals for the interruptions

The Conversation

Trump has promised to eliminate funding to schools that don’t nix DEI work – but half of the states are not complying

It’s been about six months since the U.S. Department of Education sent a “Dear Colleague” letter to all schools that receive federal funding, warning them that they could risk losing this money if they promote what the department calls “pervasive and repugnant” racial preferences.

The Independent UK

New law could see universities sanctioned if they fail to uphold free speech

The government says it will ‘not tolerate the silencing of academics or students who voice legitimate views’

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The Independent UK

Why Australia wiped billions off student loans for millions of people

The Education Minister said the measure would help ‘take a weight’ off the backs of young people

Al Jazeera

Brown University strikes $50m deal to end Trump administration pressure

Trump has withheld hundreds of millions in federal funds from top universities in effort to reshape US higher education.

Evening Standard

Fathers urged to apply for jobs at nurseries and pre-schools in Government drive

According to the Department for Education, 3% of the early years workforce are men.

The Independent UK

Free childcare crisis as surge in demand leaves Labour with funding black hole

Exclusive: Education secretary Bridget Phillipson insists she is unafraid of scheme’s soaraway popularity, describing it as a ‘good problem to have’

The Conversation

The end of open-plan classrooms: how school design reflects changing ideas in education

The end of open-plan classrooms in New Zealand, recently announced by Education Minister Erica Stanford, marks yet another swing of the pendulum in school design.

The Independent UK

Civil rights work is slowing as Trump dismantles the Education Department, agency data shows

Data from the Education Department shows the pace at which it resolves civil rights complaints has slowed as the Trump administration dismantles the agency

The Conversation

Trump free to begin gutting Department of Education after Supreme Court ‘shadow’ ruling − 5 essential reads

The Trump administration was given the green light by the Supreme Court on July 14, 2025, to proceed with mass layoffs at the Department of Education – part of a wider plan to dismantle the agency. In doing so, the conservative majority on the bench overruled a lower court judge…

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