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Should travel companies be forced to cut prices in school holidays? Have your say
Friday 28th March 2025The issue of rising holiday prices during school breaks has long been a thorn in the side for many parents, and now it seems Labour's Education Secretary is equally concerned...
Headlines: Police horse cuts, CPR and Glastonbury Festival
Wednesday 26th March 2025A look at what stories are trending across the West of England on 26 March, 2025...
Concern for police horses as unit set to close
Wednesday 26th March 2025A woman who sold her horse to the police says she is warned he may become "a commodity"...
Future farmers told about the value of horse power
Saturday 22nd March 2025A pair of heavy horses are used to show how they still have a role in modern land management...
“Unexpected” - Gloucester AC sprinter Ella Edwards on English U20 silver, 60m PB, US scholarship and Keely Klassic after “horrendous 2024 season”
Thursday 20th March 2025Former Barnwood Park School, and Hartpury College student has accepted an athletics scholarship at Jacksonville State UniversityRead full story...
School warning after 'man tried to pull child by their coat'
Thursday 20th March 2025Plea to be extra vigilantRead full story. Taken from the RSS feed at http://www...
Dozen schools among first for free breakfast clubs
Wednesday 19th March 2025Rosary Catholic Primary School in Stroud has been awarded government funding as part of a pilot...
Improved school celebrates new 'good' rating
Tuesday 18th March 2025A school in Gloucester receives a "good" rating after years of trying to turn its fortunes around...
Martin Clunes opens vet nurse training centre
Monday 17th March 2025The Men Behaving Badly actor, unveiling the site at Hartpury University, praised the "pure care" given by the nurses...
Best Mullins horse ever? Galopin Des Champs eyes Gold Cup treble
Thursday 13th March 2025Galopin Des Champs bids to become only the fifth horse to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup three times on Friday at the Festival...
'Tough year' for police force amid bullying claims
Thursday 13th March 2025Morale was low before plans to cut jobs were announced and chief constable was suspended...
Racecourse improves transport links after criticism
Thursday 13th March 2025Cheltenham Racecourse introduces a new park and ride system to improve journeys to the track...
Gloucestershire schools go all out for World Book Day with pyjamas quizzes and book jars
Thursday 13th March 2025From literary catwalks to potato characters here’s how students made stories come aliveRead full story...
New head teacher appointed following controversial merger of two schools
Thursday 13th March 2025Some parents aren't happy that one school is closing ahead of the mergerRead full story...
Queen visits Cheltenham after early snow on course
Wednesday 12th March 2025Thousands of racegoers are anticipated to descend on Prestbury Park for Style Wednesday later...
Racecourse changes hurdles to improve horse safety
Wednesday 12th March 2025New padded hurdles, introduced for the 2025 Cheltenham Festival, are designed to make racing safer...
Snow falls on Cheltenham Racecourse ahead of day two
Wednesday 12th March 2025Thousands of racegoers are anticipated to descend on Prestbury Park for Style Wednesday later...
Man sentenced for engaging teen in sexual activity
Tuesday 11th March 2025Kane Pearson, 21, encouraged his 14-year-old victim to send sexually explicit images of herself...
How do you train a racehorse for Cheltenham?
Tuesday 11th March 2025Berkshire trainer Jamie Snowden explains how you train a horse for Cheltenham races...
Artist creates life-size horse sculpture from wire
Tuesday 11th March 2025Rupert Till said his donation to Cheltenham Festival was a way of "giving back to the community"...
Cheltenham Festival introduces new padded hurdles
Monday 10th March 2025Hurdles along the course have traditionally been birch, but this year they will be padded instead...
Woman's anger as foxes are 'being shot dead' on grammar school field
Monday 10th March 2025'We have therefore had to take the hard decision to undertake this alternative course of action to safeguard our students’ health and welfare'Read full story...
Man's mental health improves after hearing test
Monday 10th March 2025An 80-year-old man said getting his hearing checked has allowed him to volunteer in his community...
Plans to build Send school are backed by £20m fund
Sunday 9th March 2025The extra investment will mean 540 special school places have been created in Gloucestershire since 2022, the council said...
New Send school given £20m funding boost
Sunday 9th March 2025The funding brings the number of new special places up to more than 500 since 2022, a council says...
National news archive
Schools in Puerto Rico are bracing for Trump cuts after gains made during the Biden years
Friday 28th March 2025The island, with the seventh-largest school district in the US, is unusually reliant on federal fundingMaraida Caraballo Martínez has been an educator in Puerto Rico for 28 years and the principal of the elementary school Escuela de la Comunidad Jaime C Rodriguez for the past seven...
Pizzas, iPads and praise stamps: pupils reap rewards for attending school
Thursday 27th March 2025Schools combining incentives with sanctions saw better response than those relying purely on punishmentPizza parties and iPads are being offered to pupils as incentives to improve school attendance, according to a new report which says sanctions alone are less likely to work...
Banning us from social media is ‘neither practical nor effective’, UK teenagers say
Thursday 27th March 2025UK youth parliament concludes tech firms should do more to protect users from violent and inappropriate contentBanning teenagers from social media is neither a “practical nor effective” solution to the growing problem of youth violence, young people from across the UK have told MPs...
School dinner payment app criticised for £10 refund fee
Thursday 27th March 2025After pulling out of the market Squid is charging parents who want to withdraw their remaining fundsA payments company that was used by parents to pay for school dinners has drawn criticism for charging them £10 to withdraw the remaining funds in their accounts after it pulled out of the market...
Special needs schools way over capacity in England
Thursday 27th March 2025There were 8,000 more secondary pupils in special schools than places in 2023-24, official figures show...
University of Sussex taking legal action over £585,000 free speech fine
Thursday 27th March 2025Vice-chancellor Sasha Roseneil accuses Office for Students of seeking to ‘persecute’ rather than solve problemsThe University of Sussex is taking legal action to overturn a record fine levied by England’s higher education regulator, accusing the regulator of seeking to “persecute” it rather than solve problems...
Institutions fear bigger penalties after landmark University of Sussex fine
Wednesday 26th March 2025Universities UK say ruling may harm efforts to ‘prevent harassment and hate speech’ on campusA landmark freedom of speech ruling against the University of Sussex that resulted in a fine in excess of half a million pounds, has prompted fears other institutions could face investigation and even bigger penalties...
University of Sussex fine sparks fears of bigger penalties for other institutions
Wednesday 26th March 2025Universities UK says ruling raises concerns about how to prevent harassment and hate speech on campusA landmark freedom of speech ruling against the University of Sussex that resulted in a fine in excess of half a million pounds has prompted fears other institutions could face investigation and even bigger penalties...
Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
Wednesday 26th March 2025Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’A Yale professor who studies fascism is leaving the US to work at a Canadian university because of the current US political climate, which he worries is putting the US at risk of becoming a “fascist dictatorship”...
Parents 'frustrated' by collapse of school cash app
Wednesday 26th March 2025Parents are being charged a £10 admin fee to retrieve cash put into the sQuid app...
Don’t just blame Trump – Democrats paved the way for this campus crackdown | Musa al-Gharbi
Wednesday 26th March 2025Both parties are responsible for the mess facing Columbia and other institutions...
University of Sussex fined £585,000 for failing to uphold freedom of speech
Wednesday 26th March 2025OfS inquiry concludes into case of Prof Kathleen Stock, who was targeted over views on trans rights and gender issuesEngland’s university regulator has been accused of “perpetuating the culture wars” after fining the University of Sussex a record £585,000 at the conclusion of an investigation into freedom of speech on campus...
University of Sussex fined £585k in transgender free speech row
Tuesday 25th March 2025The university is fined by the higher education regulator for failing to uphold freedom of speech...
The Guardian view on gender gaps in education: girls and boys both need attention | Editorial
Tuesday 25th March 2025A new study contradicts received wisdom about underachieving boys...
Pupils eating in tent a year after school closure
Tuesday 25th March 2025Pupils still eat meals in a marquee a year since dangerous concrete was found at their school...
Reform UK will go to war with teaching unions, says Nigel Farage
Tuesday 25th March 2025Outburst comes after anti-racism campaigners disrupt event in South Yorkshire and are escorted out The Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, has accused “leftwing” teaching unions of poisoning the minds of young people “against everything this country has ever stood for”...
The Guardian view on social networks: the friendships that can change your life | Editorial
Monday 24th March 2025Whether forged in neighbourhoods, clubs or universities, cross-class links can boost social mobility and break down dividesSocial capital is a key concept in the social sciences and – even though most people don’t use the term – also in common sense...
Numbers drop in overseas student applications
Monday 24th March 2025The University of Lincoln is calling for visa rules for international students to be changed...
'Private schools VAT hike costing taxpayers more'
Sunday 23rd March 2025A Lincolnshire mother says the council is paying thousands to take her daughter to a state school...
Education secretary orders inquiry into allegations of student loan fraud
Sunday 23rd March 2025Bridget Phillipson instructs Public Sector Fraud Authority to look into whether millions of pounds falsely claimedFraud experts will investigate the university loans system amid concerns that students are falsely claiming millions of pounds without intending to study, the education secretary has announced...
Elton John backs Ed Sheeran’s call for UK to put £250m into music education
Sunday 23rd March 2025Coldplay, Harry Styles and Stormzy also join the Suffolk songwriter in campaigning for music funding in schoolsElton John, Coldplay, Harry Styles, Stormzy and Central Cee are among the artists backing a call from Ed Sheeran for Keir Starmer to commit £250m of funding for music education...
Columbia should have said, ‘see you in court,’ not ‘yes, Mr President.’ | Margaret Sullivan
Saturday 22nd March 2025Institutions must resist thuggish bullying. There is no satisfying Trump...
‘I was raped at the age of 10’: sexual abuse and harassment reported at 1,664 UK primary schools
Saturday 22nd March 2025Experiences of harassment, groping, inappropriate touching and rape anonymously reportedWarning: contains content some readers may find distressingChildren and adults have anonymously reported testimonies of sexual abuse and harassment at 1,664 primary schools in the UK through a website for survivors, which has called for age-appropriate sex education to be taught to children under the age of nine...
Teenagers excluded from school ‘twice as likely’ to commit serious violence
Saturday 22nd March 2025Large-scale analysis of UK police and education records reveals link between expulsion and violence within yearTeenagers who are permanently excluded from school are twice as likely to commit serious violence within a year of their expulsion than those who were merely suspended, a large-scale new analysis of police and education records has shown...
‘Raped at age of 10’: sexual abuse and harassment reported at 1,664 UK primary schools
Saturday 22nd March 2025Experiences of harassment, groping, inappropriate touching and forced penetration anonymously reportedWarning: contains content some readers may find distressingChildren and adults have anonymously reported testimonies of sexual abuse and harassment at 1,664 primary schools in the UK through a website for survivor stories, which has called for age-appropriate sex education to be taught to children under the age of nine...
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