A study by researchers at University College London looked at the activity levels of 4,257 12- to 16-year-olds and has found that children who spend lots of time sitting still are more likely to develop depression by the age of 18.

The US has launched investigations into Harvard and Yale universities over suspicions they received undisclosed funds from foreign countries, including Saudi Arabia and China.

Schools are being told they do not need to close or send people home if there is a suspected case of coronavirus.

More than 5,000 qualifications in England studied by few or, in some cases, no students are being scrapped.

According to the latest analyse carried out by the Department of Education children of immigrants are ahead of their British counterparts in GCSE maths and English.

There is an ongoing debate within the education system about the importance of teaching pupils the truth about British colonialism including those aspects of it that are less than stellar. 

According to the BBC university leaders in the UK and Europe have signed a joint statement calling for UK universities to remain part of European research schemes after Brexit.

According to the BBC the NHS in England is hiring 10,000 school leavers given training by the Prince's Trust charity. The new staff will go some way towards solving the shortage caused by rising demands on the service and falling EU migration.

According to a report by media regulator Ofcom fifty per cent of the UK's 10-year-olds owned a smartphone in 2019 and doubled between the ages of nine and 10, which Ofcom dubbed "the age of digital independence".