Poppy Wood

King's College Cambridge has announced that it will drop investments in arms firms, following long-running pressure from students over the war in Gaza. King's becomes the first Oxbridge college to do so. For @Telegraph with @poppyeh telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/2…

We’re tackling poor mental health, poor attendance and poor behaviour. This year, Mental Health Support Teams will be available to another 900,000 children in schools across our country. We’re delivering on our Plan for Change. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

🔵 Children will be taught the value of “grit” to tackle a growing mental health crisis in schools, The Telegraph can reveal Read this front page story here ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

The front page of today's Daily Telegraph: 'Children to be taught to show some grit'

These deficits come with the grimmer reality that universities are laying off more and more staff - easily the biggest expense of universities. The reports highlight 10k+ redundancies last year, costing university hundreds of millions of pounds.

🧑‍🎓 We've been through the annual reports and the numbers are shocking - 61 universities recorded a deficit last year - 43pc of ttotal. That's 43pc. Read mine and @poppyeh analysis, and see the unis which are now entering their sixth year in the red bit.ly/4kaSBdL

Excl: A record number of UK universities are in deficit, as fears intensify that one or more could soon go bust 61 recorded deficits relative to their incomes last year, up from 44 the year before With @bienbutcher telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/0…

🚨🧑‍🎓 There has been a 40pc increase in children expelled or suspended for violent behaviour in a single year, our analysis shows Some 25k pupils were excluded in Autumn '23 our analysis shows, including some as young as five - with @poppyeh telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/3…