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News and features
Education News: Enrolment is rising, but exclusion is proving harder to shift
Section: Education NewsUNESCO’s 2026 global education evidence shows why counting enrolments is not enough: access depends on the conditions that let learners enter, remain and complete.
BERA publishes Beyond Correct Answers: AI, SEND and meaningful participation in mathematics
A new BERA report by Alastair Amos and Steven Watson explores when generative AI supports students with SEND in mathematics—and why teacher mediation remains crucial.
Environment News: Seven boundaries beyond the line—but the lines are not cliff edges
Section: Environment NewsThe 2026 Planetary Health Check reports rising pressure across seven of nine Earth-system boundaries. Reading it responsibly means treating the framework as a risk dashboard, not a countdown.
Science News: How an indri shapes a song to carry
Section: Science NewsFrame-by-frame analysis of wild indris links wider mouth opening with higher-pitched notes. The result supports vocal-tract tuning, but does not demonstrate deliberate control or transmission distance.
Research and reviews
From evaluation to effective educational action: Autopoietic Ecology and a response to Jesper Tække
A response to Jesper Tække: how Autopoietic Ecology explains the constitution of effective correction across judgment, authority, material records and recursive activity. Includes an interactive animation and a worked comparison with Luhmann.
A correction needs somewhere to go
Section: Research and ScholarshipAn acknowledged cancellation can leave the next decision unchanged. A constructed community-centre example follows a correction into the record that governs what happens next.
What changes in teachers’ work when AI enters the preparation room?
A systematic review maps 79 studies of teachers’ generative-AI use. The concentration on preparation is revealing, but it does not yet show that AI saves work or improves teaching.
When human cortical organoids are given room to grow
Kaganovsky and colleagues create space for large human-derived cortical grafts in mice. The platform is powerful, but its behavioural meaning remains inseparable from the altered host and the care that sustains it.
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