English test options ‘confusing’ international students
Range of current providers and questions around which assessment is best requires greater clarity from universities, UKCISA warns.
Inclusion without a structural lens just reproduces exclusion
With universities relying on disclosure models and deficit framing to address awarding gaps, Emma Gaunt argues that racism and ableism aren't distortions of the system – they're built into it.
English language requirements are about more than getting in
With sector debate about English language requirements often driven by anecdote and risk, Yinbo Yu presents findings from new UKCISA research – and argues the conversation needs to start from diversity, not assumption.
Scotland and Wales to pilot phone outreach for international graduates
A new graduate outcomes pilot will contact international alumni by telephone from December 2026 as the sector seeks stronger evidence of graduate outcomes beyond the UK.
Badly behaving pupils should not be banished to special needs areas as punishment, says Bridget Phillipson
Badly behaved pupils should not be banished to special needs areas as a punishment, Bridget Phillipson has warned teachers.
Supporting young people to understand and take up apprenticeships and technical pathways
This briefing brings together national evidence on young people's awareness and understanding of apprenticeships and technical education pathways, alongside data on schools' delivery of encounters in line with Provider Access Legislation (PAL) and the wider factors that...
Helping adults overcome barriers to training
Many barriers still prevent adults from taking part in upskilling and reskilling, even when training opportunities exist.
The Gender Trap: why we're seduced by obvious explanations
It’s the first day of a new academic year with no mistakes.
Strict school dress codes can affect self-esteem, academic warns
As the weather gets warmer and term draws to a close, students are throwing off their blazers and rolling down their socks – but are rigid school uniform policies affecting students' wellbeing?
Why educational impact fades out
Making positive changes to yourself is hard but to try and do it at a school, college, or even across a group of schools locally, and sustain that change, is doubly difficult.
Agreed principles; common routines: These are the ladders to better teaching
These days there is a lot of discussion about the role of commonly agreed principles and routines in teaching.
New HEPI and Unite Students Report ‘Unite Students Applicant Index’
The latest Applicant Index from Unite Students and HEPI reveals just how much expectations of university life have changed.
We have spent thirty years asking the wrong people to fund universities. It is time for a new social contract
The post-war settlement that shaped modern British higher education was based on an idea, made explicit by the Robbins Report 1963, that access to university should be determined by ability, not means, and the state would fund it because an educated population and a flourishing...
Housekeeping and higher education regulation
With the current state of higher education in England, the newly appointed CEOs of the Office for Students (OfS) are going to have a great deal to do when they start in June 2026.
FE leaders and unions issue stark funding warning to DfE
College leaders and staff unions have joined forces to warn the government of the severe consequences of continued FE funding cuts.
The Government fails in new polls of teachers and support staff, and Labour’s own members
A survey of over 4,000 members of the National Education Union, conducted by Deltapoll, has found a damning assessment of the performance of Labour after two years in office.
New laser system delivers first experiment
Researchers have run the first experiment on a new HiLUX laser system at STFC's Central Laser Facility.
Colour-coded Ofsted ratings ‘put teachers at risk’
Ofsted’s new colour-coded school report cards are putting teachers at risk, a report has found.
Ex Dundee University finance chief begins employment tribunal
An accountant who resigned from the University of Dundee after one day begins his employment tribunal on Monday.
Kids were made to eat dog biscuits off the floor - pupils speak out after Welsh school abuse payouts
Being forced to eat dog biscuits off the floor was part of life for young children at an educational referral unit, former pupils have said.