The report highlights that just 2.97% of A-levels taken in 2024 were in languages, with subjects like PE now attracting more entries than French, German, and Classics combined.

Ofqual is to fine awarding organisation WJEC £350,000 in total for breaching exams rules in two separate cases - including one that meant over 1,500 students received the wrong GCSE grades on results day. 

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has launched a new £6 million programme to provide holiday activities and opportunities for young people at greatest risk of exploitation and violence, which begins this summer.

Children at a club

In their 2025 Holiday Childcare Survey, Coram, the children’s charity, found that summer holiday childcare costs in Great Britain have risen by four per cent in the last year, with working parents now facing an average bill of £179 per child per week.

The government will be introducing a new approach to school sport, as part of a series of plans announced by the Government to honour the success of the Lionesses. 

According to a new survey, commissioned by Cambridge University Press & Assessment, the public is split how AI should be used in schools.

The Scottish Government's Entrepreneurial Education Fund supports programmes that embedded entrepreneurial education in Scotland’s classrooms.

The Welsh Government has outlined a new, collaborative approach to addressing behaviour in schools following the National Behaviour Summit.

A programme using UK public sector data to uncover insights on everything from the cost of living to children’s education and early cancer diagnosis has been given a five-year extension with £168m of funding. 

Over half (57%) of low-income families say their child struggles to access devices or reliable internet outside school for homework or learning.

Tens of thousands of young people in England could be left without a viable post-16 education route as the government presses ahead with plans to scrap many popular vocational qualifications, education campaigners have warned.

The Fight for Ordinary campaign urges the government not to dilute existing rights and protections or restrict EHCPs for those who continue to need them.

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