Trump’s New Take on the Epstein Files
Readers react to developments in the Jeffrey Epstein case. Also: A teacher’s suspension.
FRIDAY, 28 NOVEMBER 2025, 13:49
Readers react to developments in the Jeffrey Epstein case. Also: A teacher’s suspension.

A couple unlawfully arrested over complaints about their child’s school say police have paid them damages.
Asking students to drill down on their schoolwork amid an array of digital distractions is inimical to learning.

The head teacher tells parents references to demons can feel “deeply uncomfortable” to Christians.
President Trump has transformed the agency. We look at what’s happening on the inside.

Unions say school managers are failing to deal with persistent “disruptive behaviour”.
The overall number of international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities, including those who enrolled in prior years or who are working after graduation, fell only slightly.
Afghan officials are lashing out against their former allies in the Pakistan military as hostilities between the two countries intensify.
Three-quarters of the schools in the area around the capital will be closed, although officials say the health risk from asbestos found in colored sand is low.
James Watson’s legacy is a cautionary tale against letting a profound discovery shape your entire worldview.

Scoill Yn Jubilee is taking part in a pilot scheme which has seen the redesign of a classroom.
When Ali Faqirzada was detained after a routine asylum hearing in New York, officials from Bard College and the Episcopal Diocese tapped their networks to help.

White House had demanded $1.2bn from UC to restore funding after saying it allowed antisemitism on campus
The Trump administration cannot fine the University of California or summarily cut the school system’s federal funding over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimination, a federal judge ruled late on Friday in a sharply worded decision.
US district judge Rita Lin in San...
The question “at first struck me as too open-ended to be usefully addressed by standard economics,” said Charles Jones of Stanford. He took a shot anyway.
Education, open markets, trade and immigration transformed the United States into the world’s dominant power, but each is now being weakened.
Louisiana lawmakers tried a novel strategy for raising revenue, a model that proponents say might work more broadly.
Some Democrats and supporters of the National Endowment for the Humanities are questioning what they see as gutted procedures and a tilt toward handpicked projects.

Duncan Ivison, president of Manchester University, says government’s 6% surcharge plan will ‘hurt the sector’
A levy on tuition fees paid by international students is “wrong”, will “hurt the sector” and is “not in the long-term interests” of the UK, according to the vice-chancellor of one of the country’s leading universities.
Duncan Ivison, who took over as president and vice-chancellor of the...

Nathan Wyatt’s experience led to a new law giving students more time to find somewhere to live.
An extraordinary rebuke to the federal government’s campaign against elite schools, the ruling could upend settlement talks with the university system.
The student, the president of the school’s College Republicans club, said he reported immigrant carwash workers. Now he is facing online attacks after nine of the workers were detained.