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Ms Rachel, the controversial queen of toddler TV: ‘My goal isn’t to be the most liked. It’s to help kids and speak the truth’

Instead she bounds over, wearing a classic off-duty mum uniform – Sesame Street sweatshirt, grey leggings, baseball cap that reads "Mama" – and removes her oversized sunglasses. She's very sorry, she says, rubbing her…

Water your plants and get an eye mask: 48 life rules every student – and adult – needs to know

Now you're among people who emphatically aren't related to you. How would you have any idea which of your practices were universal, and which common courtesies your upbringing had totally skipped? How do you even know…

European education powerhouses rocked by falling scores in global study

In the Netherlands, results also tumbled to all-time lows. Even in Finland, Europe's much-vaunted schools champion and a global leader for decades, scores plummeted. The 2025 Pisa scores, which assess how effectively…

Singapore is paying people to read books – can it fix the reading crisis?

It's unlikely to make you megabucks – you have to rack up 50 reading sessions of at least 15 minutes to earn one Singapore dollar (£0.59), with only one logged session allowed per day. But behavioural scientists and…

Bad Apples review – Saoirse Ronan’s suffering teacher best thing about school horror-satire

He seriously injures another pupil, the nerdy teacher's-pet Pauline (Nia Brown) whom Maria privately considers a bit annoying. After a chaotic visit to Danny's home, Maria winds up causing the boy to lose consciousness…

Schools in England get extra £500m in bid to avoid teachers' pay strike

Schools had been expected to fund some of the 3.5% teachers pay increase for the current school year out of their existing budgets, which National Education Union (NEU) leaders had strongly objected to. Daniel Kebede…

‘It sits at the meeting point of science and the humanities’: should you study psychology?

After navigating a competitive graduate jobs market this year, she secured a sales role with a FTSE 100 company starting in September. "My degree involved a lot of data analysis, which has been really useful in job…

Students in Gaza ‘devastated’ after plan for them to study in Belgium fails

Abujami has a scholarship to do a one-year master's degree in public health at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp. He hopes to gain skills and experience to rebuild Gaza's shattered health system . "I was…

‘Just be aware of what you’re spending’: budget hints for students

But with the cost of living remaining high, students are more money-conscious than ever. "It is one of the most difficult times to make ends meet as a student," according to Tom Allingham, communications director at Save…

Career focus and a community campus: how the University of Birmingham got its mojo back

But for the University of Birmingham , the turmoil became a turning point. The pandemic made the university think long and hard about the type of education it was delivering for its students, says Deborah Longworth…