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National Grid has announced a £5 million fund to improve the employability of up to 5,000 young people. The announcement came on Sunday 2 August 2026, with the Prime Minister’s Office describing it as one of the earliest industry backings of Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s education reforms. National Grid CEO Zoe Yujnovich has echoed this...
Suella Braverman, Education Spokesperson for Reform UK, has said that they would end student loans for ‘woke’ university degrees. According to Braverman, such courses will not be offered taxpayer-funded loans under a Reform government – and will have to be paid for privately “Young people have been conned into tens of thousands of pounds worth of...
Eight out of every 10 young people prefer to do a degree apprenticeship after leaving school. A survey by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), which had nearly 300 respondents aged 14–18, has found that 80% are very or somewhat likely to begin a degree apprenticeship after leaving school. 37% of respondents said they...
The Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed it will not be increasing the household income threshold to access the maximum maintenance loan for students in England. This has come after a recommendation from the House of Lords Social Mobility Policy Committee to raise income thresholds to reflect inflated living costs. The DfE has rejected the recommendation,...
UCAS has launched an interactive budget calculator to help prospective students estimate the cost of living at more than 100 UK towns and cities. The tool is available through students’ UCAS Hub accounts, and allows applicants to build a personalised monthly budget by comparing average costs for accommodation, food, transport, bills and other everyday spending....
Ministers have rejected calls for an insolvency regime to support universities at risk of financial collapse. The response follows a House of Commons Education Committee report on higher education funding, published on 12 May. It also comes as Baroness Jacqui Smith, the Higher Education Minister under Keir Starmer, has been confirmed to remain in her...
A Conservative MP has called for the West Midlands to be taken into consideration as the government advances its new devolution plans. Saqib Bhatti, MP for Meriden and Solihull East, has said that attention may be directed too heavily towards the Greater Manchester region, leaving areas such as the West Midlands without similar political gains....
Warwick Medical School’s Professor Swaran Singh, Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry, has been appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer, following decades of invaluable contributions to youth mental health research and healthcare equity. Prior to joining the University of Warwick in 2006, Professor Swaran Singh trained as a surgeon before pivoting...
Three academics from the University of Warwick have been elected as Fellows of the British Academy, the University has announced. The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the social sciences and humanities. The Fellowship is awarded to 52 scholars across the UK whose research contributes significantly to their field and society at large....
A reduction in student choice and academic freedom is becoming increasingly apparent as universities – including Russell Group institutions – continue to remove humanities courses, amid severe funding pressures. According to The Guardian, large areas of the UK are now experiencing subject cold spots, with disciplines such as classics, languages, and theology among the most...