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Students challenged by McDonald’s UK&I to rethink recycling in UK-wide competition

The initiative invites post-16 students to design innovative waste solutions for McDonald’s restaurants nationwide. Open to individuals or teams, the McDonald’s UK&I Change Challenge 2026 encourages students to help…

Affinity Workforce Solutions acquires Sugarman Children’s Services to expand support for vulnerable children

The move follows Affinity’s recent acquisition in September of education training platform Training Toolz and takes the group further into direct support for children, alongside its work supplying staff to schools…

What did Party Conference Season tell us About the Future of Skills?

The conferences offer a valuable opportunity to understand the issues shaping political debates, build relationships and make the case for change. For AELP, the objective this year was clear: to ensure that those shaping…

Yes, obesity is a problem – but a greater one is the food industry and its greed | Letters

But the confrontation it calls for should be aimed less at obesity than at what produces it. Obesity is the intermediary; the exposure is a food system engineered for profit. The Lancet's series on ultra-processed foods…

WISE EdTech Accelerator Seeks Ventures with High Potential to Impact Education at Scale

The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), a global initiative of Qatar Foundation, has announced the opening of applications for the 2026–2027 cycle of the WISE EdTech Accelerator, inviting early-stage education…

What Should an Engineering Open Day Really Show Students?

For someone considering engineering study, a course title answers only part of the question. The harder decisions concern what learning will involve: how practical work is taught, when attendance is required, and whether…

I’m a pediatrician. Loss of human connection is the biggest threat to kids, not AI | Megan Moreno

The evidence seems to be everywhere. Each week headlines warn of teenagers addicted to phones , a loneliness epidemic and the dangers of AI . The release of The Social Reckoning leads us to ask, "How bad were those guys…

Millions of Medicaid recipients to face draconian requirements as of 1 January

As the midterm elections loom, everyone from hospital leaders and to patient advocates are focused on the New Year, when Republicans scheduled the most controversial elements of their healthcare reform law to go into…

Cut screen time in classrooms to avoid long-term health issues, clinicians urge

The clinicians said they are prescribing glasses, hearing aids and speech therapy to children "for a problem that is unintentionally being made worse in our schools". The government said it was consulting on screen time…

Cardiff and Vale College marks the topping out ofits new landmark Vale campuses

The topping out milestone sees the full structure for both the Barry Waterfront Campus and the Advanced Technology Centre completed to their highest point, and the significant £119m project move into the next phase of…