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A new report, from the UCL Coastal Youth Life Chances project, highlights the challenges faced by young people growing up in coastal communities across England.

Writing in Schools Week, Associate Professor Ruth-Anne Lenga (UCL Centre for Holocaust Education), argues lack of understanding about Roma history and people, both past and present, allows damaging myths and conspiracy theories to flourish.

State-educated, working class and ethnic minority graduates were less likely to secure employment offers in 2024 compared to 2023 than their privately educated, privileged and White peers, according to UCL researchers.

A new evaluation sheds light on how Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs (MASH) are operating across England, more than a decade after their first introduction at the front door of children’s social care.

UCL's Centre for Longitudinal Studies will conduct the UK pilot of a major new European cohort study on child wellbeing, called Growing Up in Digital Europe (GUIDE).

Our education community has shared letters thanking and celebrating the teachers and support staff, past and present, who have transformed lives with their practice, care and support.

A new report, from the UCL Coastal Youth Life Chances project led by Professor Avril Keating (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society), highlights the challenges faced by young people growing up in coastal communities across England.

Dr Susana Castro-Kemp (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society) gave evidence to the Department of Education and SEND select committees, that relying on diagnostic categories to provide support and services for children can be reductionist and miss their intersectional needs.

Universities should be facilitating academics to hold these kinds of events, not putting barriers in their path,” said Professor Alice Sullivan (UCL Social Research Institute) on academic freedom.

As her government-commissioned review into barriers to research on sex and gender is published, Professor Alice Sullivan (UCL IOE - Social Research) argues that universities have institutionalised behaviours which undermine free speech and inquiry.

Writing in Schools Week, Professor John Jerrim (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society) argues that the government should be develop a new and improved version of New Labour’s ‘gifted and talented’ programme.

Professor David Voas (UCL Social Research Institute) expresses scepticism about a reported religious revival in England in the Conversation.