Students

We must move from availability to accessibility to end period inequality

Women and girls are still missing education due to periods, despite success of period equality schemes, writes Kelly Greenaway

JL Dutaut
Kelly Greenaway
Students, T Levels

Young carers ‘put off’ T Levels

Benefit rules mean carers are choosing shorter courses or dropping out of education

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Students

Free meals funding ‘another real-terms cut to bear’

Free meals funding increase still falls short of rising food costs

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Colleges, Students

Cost-of-living crisis driving up domestic abuse and criminal exploitation of college students

The number of ‘at risk’ college students is higher than ever, MPs have said

Joshua Stein
Joshua Stein
Students

The cost-of-living crisis is becoming a cost-of-learning crisis

Learners are increasingly forced to make horrible choices between cash or the classroom, says Josh Spears

JL Dutaut
Josh Spears
Colleges, Long read, Students

Demand for student support soars as the cost of living crisis bites

Josh was a talented bricklaying student with dreams of running his own building firm. Then his mother lost one...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Students

Improving social mobility demands better data on FE outcomes

New research shows FE courses lead to better earnings but their social mobility potential is limited by patchy and...

JL Dutaut
Alun Francis
Students

Barber to lead region’s social mobility taskforce

Government advisor and college and university chiefs are among members for new commission

Jason Noble
Jason Noble