Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs

Educational publisher’s move into non-fungible tokens is intended to claw back some of the income lost to secondhand sales

Accepted: behind a US college admissions scandal and the students affected

A new documentary observes the warped system of college admissions through the eyes of four minority students at a scandal-ridden school in Louisiana

Taser abandons plans to build stun gun-equipped drones for schools

Flying stun gun plan in response to US school shootings was expression of potential, not launch timetable, says CEO

‘We were always trying to push boundaries’: Jim Howick on breaking taboos, coping with life and the joy of dogs

Jim Howick’s wicked sense of humour helped turn Horrible Histories, Ghosts and Sex Education into massive hits. Here, the actor and writer reveals how he’s always made it up as he went along

Nursery trainer tells of racist abuse after Tory MP calls work ‘brainless’

Liz Pemberton says she has received offensive emails after John Hayes criticised her anti-racism work

Divas/Brotherhood review – powerful studies examine the challenges of growing up

Máté Körösi’s documentary about a trio of troubled young women in Budapest and Francesco Montagner’s film following three sons in a Bosnian shepherd family explore the path to adulthood

The ‘Spider-Man’ of Sudan: the real-life superhero of the protest movement

In Khartoum, Sudan, an anonymous protester dressed as Spider-Man joins the hundreds of thousands of protesters desperate to protect their fragile civilian government after the military coup in October 2021

Pens down: England’s exams regulator exploring online A-levels and GCSEs

School leaders say online exams could allow them to go ahead in lockdown-style conditions in future

Instead of obsessing over learning facts, let’s teach children how to think

Learning how to find things out is what the scientific method is all about. The curriculum would benefit from more of it, says theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili

Tonight’s Homework review – Kiarostami-inspired snapshot of Iran’s wealth gap

Inequality is exposed in a series of interviews with schoolkids in a heartbreaking doc that echoes Abbas Kiarostami’s documentary Homework

Director Laura Wandel: ‘The brutality of the playground is conveyed through noise’

The schoolyard is a psychological minefield in Playground, Wandel’s stomach-churning debut. As the film is released in the UK, she reveals the secret to immersing the viewer in a child’s world

Costa winner Hannah Lowe on the legacy of lockdown: my students write about feeling isolated and missing out

University is where young people transition into adulthood, but the poet and lecturer says the past two years have left many in her creative writing classes in limbo

Young Plato review – Belfast headteacher inspires playground philosophers

This engaging documentary follows a primary school head who uses classical thinkers to teach new ways of defusing violence

The rise of AI could be a great British story. But let’s do it the right way

This exciting industrial advance will bring new jobs – especially if we put ethics at its core

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ‘may fuel dangerous Holocaust fallacies’

John Boyne’s story is used by more than a third of teachers in England in lessons on the Nazi genocide, a study found