Education

Published: 17 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Artificial intelligence has become one of the defining technological and social debates of the 2020s, but following that debate can sometimes feel like moving between two extremes. One moment, AI companies are announcing enormous investments, new products and rapidly expanding computing infrastructure. The next, researchers, technology workers and critics are warning that increasingly powerful systems could create serious...

Published: 17 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Children receiving treatment in English hospitals are facing a serious shortage of specialist play support, with new figures indicating that the number of health play professionals available to help young patients cope with illness and medical procedures remains far below recommended levels. The findings have renewed concern about how hospitals support children emotionally as well as clinically. Health...

Published: 16 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Young people across Britain face sharply different employment prospects depending on where they live, with a new analysis highlighting a sixfold gap in the number of online job vacancies available relative to the local youth population. The research, produced by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), places Rotherham at the bottom of its Local Youth Opportunity Index,...

Published: 16 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Young people across Britain face sharply different prospects when searching for work, with a new analysis showing that the availability of suitable job vacancies varies dramatically between local areas. The research, produced by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), found that Rotherham in South Yorkshire had one of the lowest levels of online job opportunities relative to...

Published: 12 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape employment opportunities for university graduates in the United Kingdom, with new data suggesting that students who study computer science and economics may be facing changes in the labour market that were difficult to anticipate only a few years ago. A detailed analysis of graduate employment data indicates that software development and coding...

Published: 11 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Andy Burnham has been urged to revive a financial support scheme for disadvantaged students that was abolished in England 15 years ago, with Trades Union Congress general secretary Paul Nowak arguing that bringing back an Education Maintenance Allowance-style payment could help more young people remain in education and training. The intervention puts the spotlight back on the Education...

Published: 11 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Andy Burnham has been urged to revive a financial support scheme for students from poorer families, with Trades Union Congress general secretary Paul Nowak arguing that the abolition of the Education Maintenance Allowance created a serious barrier for young people trying to remain in education after the age of 16. The call comes as the issue of young...

Published: 08 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Councils across England are spending more than £125 million a year to place some of the country’s most vulnerable children in care settings that are not legally registered, an investigation has found, exposing the scale of a rapidly expanding market created by a severe shortage of suitable accommodation. Analysis of local authority payment records covering the past two...

Published: 08 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. More than 40 major retailers across the UK are preparing to offer up to 100,000 short-term work placements to young people who are not currently in employment, education or training, in an effort to help them gain experience and move towards paid work. The initiative, developed in partnership with the Department for Work and Pensions, is aimed at...

Published: 03 September 2026.The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The proportion of secondary school students in England being removed from their normal classrooms and placed in internal exclusion has nearly tripled over three years, according to newly analysed education data, raising concerns about the growing use of classroom removal as a disciplinary measure. The figures show that 13% of secondary school pupils were placed in internal exclusion at...