Bright Horizons Let Some Staff Work Without Full Vetting, Records Show
Inspectors found several instances in which child care staff members were working in classrooms even though they had not completed all of the required background checks.
Education
Labour’s Send reforms get this right: disabled children in mainstream schools is transformative for everyone | Frances Ryan
It doesn’t fit neatly on a Treasury spreadsheet, but there is huge value in disabled and non-disabled pupils learning together
When I was 11, a woman at the hospital asked me what school I was starting in September. I still remember her surprise when I told her I would be going to the local girls grammar, as the hoist pulled my wet limbs out of the physio pool. I was a child but already...
Hunter College Places Professor Who Made ‘Abhorrent’ Remarks on Leave
The professor, speaking on a hot mic, said, “They’re too dumb to know they’re in a bad school” when a student objected to the possible closure of a middle school. The remark was assailed as racist.
F.B.I. Raids Home of L.A.U.S.D. Chief Alberto Carvalho and School District Offices
F.B.I. agents executed search warrants at the locations. The target of their investigation was unclear.
Labour ministers explore ways of easing burden of plan 2 student loans
Government looks at options such as increasing loan repayment thresholds amid growing pressure
Ministers are examining ways to ease the burden of student loans after weeks of pressure over a policy pulling more people into repayments, the Guardian understands.
The Treasury and the Department for Education are reviewing different options to offer relief to graduates with Plan 2 student loans,...
Lawrence Summers Will Resign From Harvard After Epstein Revelations
Mr. Summers, former president of the school, had stepped back from teaching after documents showed a closer relationship to Jeffrey Epstein than previously known. He will leave at the end of the academic year.
Labour MPs call for urgent action on ‘unfair’ student loans
MPs criticise “rip-off” interest rates and unfair changes to repayment terms during a debate in Parliament
Online Accusations in Guthrie Abduction Leave One Family ‘Scared Numb’
A fifth-grade teacher and his principal wife hid in their bedroom as dozens of people who believed he might be a kidnapper appeared on their suburban street.
Yondr Pouches, a Solution to School Phone Bans, Are No Match for Teens
In some schools, Yondr, a pouch marketed to keep kids off devices, has proved no match for actual children.
Homeschooled by Stefan Merrill Block review – a true ‘Misery’ memoir
A compelling and fitfully harrowing child’s-eye account of a mother’s unravelling
Stefan Merrill Block was nine when his mother pulled him out of school. It was the early 1990s and the family had recently moved from Indianapolis to Plano, Texas, where Block’s father had started a new job. While Block and his older brother, Aaron, had been wrenched away from their schoolmates, their mother had...
Leader of Columbia Brain Institute Quits Over Friendship With Epstein
The Nobel laureate Richard Axel is not accused of wrongdoing but called his association with Jeffrey Epstein a “serious error in judgment.”
Will the new SEND reforms in England work? You have your say
The government has unveiled its long-awaited plans for reforming SEND provision in England – but what do those most impacted make of the changes?
US justice department sues UCLA over alleged antisemitism amid pro-Palestinian protests
Lawsuit is latest action by Trump administration against a university and escalation of president’s feud with California
The justice department sued the University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday, alleging the university created a hostile work environment for Jewish and Israeli faculty and staff after protests against the war on Gaza broke out across campus.
The lawsuit claims UCLA...
Send plan for England gets cautious welcome amid workload concerns
Education leaders and MPs say government needs to be careful about mental health impact on leaders and teachers in already overstretched sector
Teachers and schools face “a huge ask” implementing the government’s special needs proposals affecting hundreds of thousands of children, according to education leaders and MPs who otherwise gave the plans a cautious welcome.
Under the plans unveiled by...
D.O.J. Sues U.C.L.A. After It Refused to Pay $1 Billion Fine
The Trump administration accused the University of California, Los Angeles, of not doing enough to curb antisemitism.
‘Pupils locked me in a room’ claims striking teacher
Teachers at two Greater Manchester schools took to the picket lines after claims of violent children
More Than Half of Teens Use Chatbots for Schoolwork, Survey Finds
A new study from the Pew Research Center finds teens think chatbot-assisted cheating has become “a regular feature of student life.”
Children in care off school for months as school rejections stack up
Councils seek powers to require more schools to take children as heads say funding would meet needs.
UK’s biggest student housing provider hit by fall in international enrolment
Unite Group cuts rents at some universities and raises cash by selling London site to joint venture for £186m
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A drop in the number of international students coming to the UK has hit the student housing provider Unite Group, which lowered its profit outlook for the third time in four months as weaker demand prompted it to cut rents in some cities.
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Phillipson defends student loan change and says average repayments will rise by £8 a month
Some graduates in England say “punishing” student loan repayments have led them to cut their hours at work.
Why the student loans row is escalating and what it means for graduates
What is behind the growing anger over plan 2 student loans and what could reforms mean for graduates?
Pressure is building on the government to reform the student loans system, with politicians and campaigners piling in, and a minister conceding there are “problems” with the current set-up.
Yesterday the consumer champion Martin Lewis – who last month locked horns with Rachel Reeves –...