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Suicide in autistic people originates in the inequalities they face across their lives, starting in childhood, and spanning education to employment, and health and social care, a new study by a team at Cambridge and Bournemouth Universities has found.

Getting children to play together cooperatively depends less on their personal social skills and more on what they are doing - especially if they are not friends - a study shows.

More than two thirds of people in the UK are living with their parents at age 23, around three times higher than a generation of millennials when they were a similar age a decade ago.

16:27 Press release HIER - the Hub for Impactful and Engaged Research - is a new collaborative initiative that brings together five leading knowledge institutions in South Holland: Erasmus University

Physical aggression by adolescents against their parents is more common than many might believe, according to a long-term longitudinal study from Zurich.

Studentscore knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust remains insecure, with many struggling to answer basic questions about what happened, to whom, where and when, finds new research from the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education. The findings, published in the Knowledge and Understandings of the Holocaust report, show progress in students' knowledge and understanding compared with results from the Centre-s previous national study in 2016, but also reveals persistent gaps and prevailing misconceptions.

New research into the lives of children who attend special schools has revealed a mixed picture of strong support from teachers alongside ongoing challenges with bullying and friendships, as well as unmet needs for some groups of pupils.

Cities across Europe are getting hotter, and schools are among the places where heat stress is rising fastest.

A new study from The University of Manchester has found that happier teachers help create happier pupils - and better learning - as ten schools across the UK embrace a groundbreaking approach to wellbeing.

Children from less privileged families are less likely to attend grammar school after primary school, despite achieving the same results.

Two-year-olds in England watch television, videos or other digital content for an average of two hours each day, double the daily recommended screen time, new UCL-led research finds.

Children living in damp and overcrowded homes missed three weeks more of school over the course of compulsory education than their peers in better-quality housing.

Alexis Stones (UCL Institute of Education) writes in The Conversation about how Lego exercises can be a powerful educational tool in helping young people open up about their personal identities as well as their worldviews.

A new study from the University of Würzburg's Chair of Mathematics Education shows that AI research for STEM education focuses too much on technology and neglects the holistic development of students.

The use of virtual reality (VR) is expanding across industries, but its large-scale application in educational settings has remained largely unexplored.