ULSTER University (UU) is among the top 40 universities in the UK for the first time.

A CO Down principal has claimed some schools are flouting Covid guidance to keep classroom windows open due to "frightening" heating costs.

THE number of students from Northern Ireland accepted into university this year has fallen.

Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast are to investigate the reasons behind growing levels of atheism across the world.

THE John and Pat Hume Foundation is one of the backers of a conference in Derry examining university and higher education in the north west.

A NEW research paper from Ulster University has said churches and some politicians are supportive of segregation in schools as a way to protect their own communities, despite them being likely to be "better served with different policies".

THE Education Authority (EA) had been urged to offer financial assistance to any substitute teachers left unpaid following the introduction of a new system.

USING vintage computer equipment, a new programme aims to encourage pupils to consider a career within the IT industry.

A TEENAGE girl seriously injured in a "callous and malicious" assault by another pupil has lost a High Court battle to have him expelled from their school.

A number of Belfast schools have decided to offer more of their pupils free meals in a bid to help struggling families.

BELFAST Metropolitan College is offering scholarships to a number of asylum seekers.

The SDLP has said the plans announced by DUP Education Minister Michelle McIlveen do not go far enough.

A NEW qualification in special education needs and disabilities has been launched.