‘We anchored ourselves in wild adventure!’ Tilda Swinton on her trippy film about learning, AI and neuroscience

What can a pipe-smoking caterpillar, a few algorithms and a researcher from the year 2042 tell us about the future of learning? The actor turned director explains all the ideas that fed into her thought-provoking new documentary

Group of 17 London secondary schools join up to go smartphone-free

Measures will impact more than 13,000 pupils in Southwark, and include confiscating phones used at school

Campaigners ‘thrilled’ as St Albans aims to be smartphone-free for under-14s

Daisy Greenwell from Smartphone-Free Childhood says move likely to have domino effect in other parts of UK

How can parents protect their children from sextortion?

Consequences of sharing nude images and subsequent threat of blackmail can be devastating. Talk to your child, say experts

We know there are many benefits to writing by hand – in a digital world we risk losing them

Handwriting makes us better writers, free of the suggestions of spelling and grammar apps, and it represents something of our personalities

‘Musical soulmates’: the extraordinary story of The Piano sensation Lucy and her doting teacher

Lucy Illingworth wowed audiences on the TV talent show, but her journey started as a toddler with dedicated tutor Daniel Bath. Now, a documentary shows how they did it – and the shocking moment a royal disaster almost stopped them

Foreign states targeting sensitive research at UK universities, MI5 warns

Ministers considering more funding to protect important research sites, with China seen as a particular concern

‘I was only able to go on stage hammered’: David Harewood on acting, racism and his new role at Rada

He had barely started his career when abuse left him mentally ill. But he went on to phenomenal success – and has just been made president of the UK’s leading drama school

BBC to invest in AI to help transform its education services

Hopes investment to make Bitesize more personalised and interactive will attract future licence-fee payers

Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher

Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was ‘death by bureaucracy’

Teenagers who use internet to excess ‘more likely to skip school’

But truancy and illness-related absences can be reversed with sleeping habits and strong family ties, study suggests

Support positive masculinity in England and Wales schools, union conference told

Boys and young men need guidance – not punishment – to avoid ‘manosphere’, teacher tells NEU

Teachers’ union leader calls for inquiry into misogyny among young men in UK

Daniel Kebede accuses government of failing to tackle issue of sexism and its spread online among children

World Happiness Report sounds alarm about the welfare of young people

Lack of education, training and housing is behind loss of gen Z’s traditionally positive outlook

Ian Mackintosh obituary

Other lives: Civil engineer specialising in dams who became a maths teacher later in life