SUNDAY, 23 FEBRUARY 2025, 07:02
Efforts by the administration to cut diversity efforts and foreign aid have upended campuses. But many university leaders seem wary of provoking a president who has glorified retribution.
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The boy, named locally as Harvey Willgoose, is described as a “lovely lad” and the “life of a party”.
Washington makes money available to the states to help young people with disabilities enter the work force. New Jersey has the worst record of helping connect families with such help.
Leighton Andrews speaks of his anger after the institution announced plans to slash hundreds of jobs.
A union claims it is “scandalous” to offer redundancies while funding a new campus abroad.
The state’s elite campuses, prohibited from using race-based admissions for decades, are now admitting more Black and Hispanic students. A new group is suing, arguing the university system is cheating.
The BBC’s boarding school satire is back and brimming with sex, laughs, super-cringe slam poetry and superstar performances – proof that it’s up there with the finest British coming-of-age shows
Standing on stage at the St Gilbert’s School showcase, acting headteacher Carol Watlington-Geese (Niky Wardley) has some words of encouragement for the teens performing their drama monologues, and the...
Education secretary launches ‘new era of school standards’ while defending Ofsted inspection changes
The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has urged parents to ensure their children attend school consistently, warning of “a casual kind of attitude increasingly emerging” over attendance in England.
She acknowledged that many families faced challenges, but said: “It’s not OK just to...
Teenager attacked two teachers and another pupil at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Ammanford last year
A 14-year-old schoolgirl has been found guilty of attempted murder after attacking two teachers and another pupil with a bladed multitool at a school in south Wales.
Teachers Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin, and a pupil who cannot be named, were treated in hospital after being stabbed at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman...
The answers to today’s prime teasers
Earlier today I set two puzzles involving prime numbers – in particular 3, 7 and 11. Primes are on this month’s cultural radar thanks to the Apple TV+ thriller Prime Target, which stars hunk du jour Leo Woodall (above.)
Here they are again with solutions.
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A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in police custody.
Ofsted scrapped its single-word judgements for schools after the death of head teacher Ruth Perry.
Keir Starmer to attend European Council meeting in wake of US president’s tariff warfare threats
Keir Starmer’s dinner with EU leaders tonight will take place at the Palais d’Egmont, a 16th-century palace where Ted Heath signed the treaty taking Britain into the European Economic Community in 1972. Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, claims this is a deliberate attempt to humiliate him.
The EU...
The Tennessee General Assembly has never cared whether its constituents support the laws it passes, and it doesn’t care now. We are on our own.
A new superintendent is trying to improve Houston’s public schools through strictly structured teaching. The district says it’s working. Many educators and parents hate it.
The eternal appeal of prime numbers
Today’s puzzles celebrate prime numbers – those beguiling numbers that divide only by themselves and 1, a sequence that begins 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, and carries on forever.
The first question was suggested by Steve Thompson…a maths teacher who became one of the UK’s most successful TV screenwriters.
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Unions as well as school leaders say proposed changes to replace four-grade approach in England are ‘demoralising’
Moves to overhaul the way schools are inspected in England have been criticised by headteachers and teaching unions as “demoralising” and worse than the system they are aiming to replace.
The changes by the Ofsted schools inspectorate would replace single judgments such as...
Some of those put on leave said they had only a minimal connection to diversity or equity efforts.
For the artist and film director acts of protest were as much a part of growing up as playing in the local park. Here he recalls his first encounters with activism
My first encounter with resistance was unbeknownst to me, and I was annoyed by it. At nine years old, I found myself attending Saturday school, missing Football Focus and not being with my friends playing in the local park. First my...
Latest anti-immigration agenda pushes to strip in-state tuition rates from tens of thousands of college students
It was a week in which two of Ron DeSantis’s flagship culture war crusades – education and immigration – collided. And it did not end well for Florida’s hard-right Republican governor.
Alongside a revolt by previously loyal lawmakers upset by DeSantis’s “power grab” in trying...