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What changed in education regulation and policy this week?
Government decisions, new rules and policy shifts reported this week.
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has initiated a formal market study into the early years education and childcare sector in England.
Read at gov.uk ↗03
The UK Department for Education, led by Minister Georgia Gould, has launched a major overhaul of teacher training for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in England as of September 25, 2026.
Read at gov.uk ↗04
The U.S. Department of Education’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) voted on Thursday, September 24, 2026, to decline making a recommendation regarding the status of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar as an accreditor.
Read at abajournal.com ↗05
Italian ministers, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, have agreed on new educational policies in Italy as of September 2026.
Read at bbc.co.uk ↗06
The UK Department for Education, led by Secretary Lucy Powell and Prime Minister Andy Burnham, announced the introduction of new Vocational GCSEs to replace current Technical Awards.
Read at gov.uk ↗07
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Science of Reading Act of 2026 (H.R.
Read at edweek.org ↗08
On September 19, 2026, the bipartisan Early-Childhood Educators’ Deductions (SEED) Act was signed into law in the United States.
Read at edweek.org ↗8 of 11 regulation and policy events are listed; the rest were ranked lower by importance and multi-source corroboration and are not shown.
What funding rounds and acquisitions happened in education this week?
The week’s notable investments, financing rounds, acquisitions and strategic deals.
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Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, have committed a $1 billion donation to the Knight College of Engineering at the University of Oregon, as announced on Wednesday, September 23, 2026.
Read at fastcompany.com ↗10
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed at least $1 billion over the next two years to support AI development across Africa.
Read at semafor.com ↗What products launched in education this week?
Notable product launches, releases and platform updates from the week.
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NASA has launched the 2026-2027 'Fueling Flight Design Challenge: New Energy Systems' for middle and high school students.
Read at nasa.gov ↗12
The nonprofit organization School Board Spotlight has launched a national dashboard tracking voting records of school board members across 161 districts in the United States.
Read at edweek.org ↗13
Udemy cofounder Gagan Biyani is launching a new academy in San Francisco focused on in-person learning for AI development.
Read at forbes.com ↗14
George Mason University is establishing the Virginia Quantum Hub (VQH) with the support of a $3.7 million grant from GO Virginia.
Read at hpcwire.com ↗15
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has announced the launch of The Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a private, for-profit school in San Francisco aimed at teens.
Read at gizmodo.com ↗16
Ancestry, in partnership with the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London, has digitized and published nearly 4 million records of enslaved people from 20 former British colonies.
Read at theguardian.com ↗17
The Austrian Academy of Science, in partnership with Mistral and Sail Reply, is releasing Apollo, an advanced large language model designed to restore and interpret damaged Ancient Greek papyrus fragments.
Read at wired.com ↗What financial results were reported in education this week?
Earnings, guidance and other financial results reported this week.
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New Federal Student Aid data released on September 24, 2026, indicates that 9.3 million student-loan borrowers in the United States are currently in default.
Read at businessinsider.com ↗19
A report from S&P Global Ratings indicates that the financial health of US public schools is declining.
Read at bloomberg.com ↗20
ILAC Education Group, including International Language Academy of Canada and ILAC International College, ceased all operations on September 18, 2026, in Vancouver, Canada.
Read at thepienews.com ↗21
On September 14, 2026, EC English closed all 25 of its schools globally.
Read at thepienews.com ↗What court rulings and legal actions hit education this week?
Court rulings, filings and legal actions reported this week.
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Twenty-seven college athletes from Iowa are appealing a lower court's dismissal of their lawsuit against state law enforcement officers.
Read at courthousenews.com ↗23
A new lawsuit filed against the U.S. Department of Education alleges that the agency continues to report student-loan balances to credit bureaus even after the debts have been officially forgiven.
Read at businessinsider.com ↗24
The Texas Rangers are pursuing a criminal investigation into Camp Mystic leadership regarding the deaths of 27 girls and counselors during the July 4, 2025, floods in Kerr County, Texas.
Read at insurancejournal.com ↗25
LGBTQ student groups, including the Texas A&M Queer Empowerment Council and Spectrum WT, are challenging university bans on drag shows at Texas A&M and West Texas A&M University.
Read at courthousenews.com ↗26
The State of Arkansas requested the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on September 22, 2026, to reinstate Act 573, a 2025 law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.
Read at courthousenews.com ↗27
Lawyers representing the state of Arkansas requested the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, to reinstate a state law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.
Read at abajournal.com ↗28
A federal court in Pennsylvania ruled on September 21, 2026, that a former graduate student may proceed with privacy and emotional distress claims against a Penn State professor.
Read at courthousenews.com ↗29
The province of British Columbia has filed a lawsuit in a San Francisco federal court against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman.
Read at theguardian.com ↗What research was published in education this week?
New research findings and studies published this week.
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A new report titled 'Teaching for Tomorrow: Screen Wise' by the Walton Family Foundation, Gallup, and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center reveals that 52% of K-12 teachers believe classroom devices do as much harm as good.
Read at eschoolnews.com ↗31
Researchers from the University of British Columbia discovered two new species of sea spiders in the Salish Sea between September 2023 and August 2024.
Read at gizmodo.com ↗32
Researchers at Stanford University published a paper in Nature Neuroscience on September 24, 2026, suggesting the human brain consists of two distinct organs that evolved independently.
Read at futurism.com ↗33
The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research published the annual Hilda survey results in Australia on September 23, 2026.
Read at theguardian.com ↗34
A meta-study led by Dr. Mary Hausfeld from the University of Limerick, involving researchers from the University of Zurich and Cambridge Judge Business School, analyzed gender differences in emotional intelligence over three decades.
Read at cam.ac.uk ↗35
A new study released on September 22, 2026, by the American Bar Association indicates a significant correlation between law school grades and first-time bar exam passage rates.
Read at abajournal.com ↗36
Researchers from the American Institutes for Research conducted a randomized controlled trial during the 2023-24 school year across 44 school districts in the United States.
Read at edweek.org ↗37
Taha Bawa of Goodwall and Riad Meddeb of the UNDP report that the NextGen Energy Champions initiative reached over 58,000 young people across more than 100 countries.
Read at esgtoday.com ↗8 of 15 research events are listed; the rest were ranked lower by importance and multi-source corroboration and are not shown.
What incidents and outages hit education this week?
Incidents, outages and safety events reported this week.
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An independent review into the death of Charlie Kirk at a Utah campus identified significant security lapses.
Read at bbc.co.uk ↗39
Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell has been accused of using AI to write academic and newspaper articles, including a column in The Washington Post about AI cheating.
Read at futurism.com ↗40
On Tuesday morning, September 22, 2026, a student opened fire near a secondary school in Manisa, western Turkiye.
Read at aljazeera.com ↗41
At least 250 people, including 10 adults, fell ill with Salmonella at Masaryk Elementary School in Prague, Czech Republic, following a meal served in the cafeteria.
Read at foodsafetynews.com ↗42
Approximately 175 people fell ill with norovirus during an introductory camp organized by Breda University of Applied Sciences in Poppel, Belgium, between August 27 and 28, 2026.
Read at foodsafetynews.com ↗What partnerships were announced in education this week?
Partnerships, integrations and joint projects announced this week.
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Netflix has entered a partnership with the British Library in the U.K. to promote reading and support literary conservation during the 2026 National Year of Reading.
Read at variety.com ↗44
On Monday, September 21, 2026, OpenAI announced the formation of an independent advisory group called The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.
Read at techcrunch.com ↗What else happened in education this week?
Developments from the week that fit none of the other sections.
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Phil Knight and his wife Penny Knight have donated $1 billion to the University of Oregon to establish a new engineering school in Eugene.
Read at theguardian.com ↗1 of 19 other developments events are listed; the rest were ranked lower by importance and multi-source corroboration and are not shown.