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Family seeks tutor from ‘socially appropriate background’ who can provide infant with ‘comprehensive British cultural environment’
Getting paid £180,000 a year to tutor a single child might sound like a dream job but there’s a catch: the child is only one-year-old and you need to get him into Eton.
A wealthy family near London is “searching for a tutor to provide a comprehensive British...
The government’s funding plans, announced in this week’s white paper, won’t do much to alleviate a deepening crisis of morale among university staff
The prospect of university tuition fees passing the £10,000 threshold in this parliament will not put a song in the heart of Labour MPs desperate for some good news stories. Nevertheless, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, had little...
The government says it needs more time to test proposals for the special educational needs system.
Plans had been expected this autumn but government wants more time to build support for changes
The government is to delay publishing its long-awaited overhaul of special educational needs provision in England as ministers seek to build a coalition among parents to support its changes.
The schools white paper, which had been expected to be published this autumn, will not appear until early in...
Massive cuts to health, education and immigration are disproportionately taking a toll.
The aim is to address systemic and institutional racism but those efforts need the space to expand not shrink
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It’s Black History Month in the UK, and it feels like it’s time for a rethink. Over the years, an event that started out as a celebration and reminder of history, culture and the connections between global Black...
Small colleges secure the fraying social fabric that holds towns together.
Wyoming is one of many states that embraced a campaign to encourage more people to enroll in higher education. Some leaders and students wonder if it was a mistake.
Activists welcome the truce. But the backlash to their demonstrations, some said, offered sobering lessons about power and politics.
Another qualifications upheaval risks undermining the government’s good ideas
Further education is one of the public sector’s Cinderellas – chronically neglected by policymakers who care more about schools. The government’s latest white paper is a welcome attempt to rectify this. If the plan succeeds, it would go some way towards fulfilling Labour’s pledge to break down barriers that...
Readers respond to a guest essay by Danielle Sassoon about her experience at N.Y.U. Also: A crackdown on science; a plea to the former presidents.
The Trump administration is closing in on a deal with the University of Virginia, four months after government pressure forced the school’s previous president to resign.
The DfE has announced it will raise tuition fees every year, and will bring in new V-levels after GCSEs.
School closures were the only option, but Covid lockdowns went too far – the fine line Boris Johnson treaded.
The admissions policy of Kamehameha Schools gives preference to Native Hawaiians. A new lawsuit calls it “blood-based discrimination.”
Former PM tells Covid inquiry that children ‘were paying a huge, huge price to protect the rest of society’
Boris Johnson laid blame on the Department for Education (DfE) over its lack of preparation for school closures at the outbreak of the pandemic, telling the Covid-19 inquiry that he assumed detailed planning was going on behind the scenes.
“We were focused on trying to delay the peak of...
The former PM says lockdown rules “probably did go too far” and says children could have been exempted.
The shutdown means there is, essentially, no Education Department. The latest round of layoffs would leave few workers to enforce special education and civil rights laws.
Ex-home secretary says ‘work and teach’ visa, which thinktank finds could help reduce public concerns about immigration, is a ‘serious, pragmatic plan’
The former home and education secretary David Blunkett has backed calls for skilled migrants to train British workers in an effort to improve public feeling towards immigration.
A report by the Good Growth Foundation, a thinktank with links to...
Cambridge historian Emily Chung finds philosopher’s blistering depictions of segregation may have been exaggerated
Friedrich Engels stands accused of exaggerating, or perhaps taking “creative liberties”, with just how segregated Manchester was in the mid-19th century, a study has found.
The great socialist thinker, who co-authored with Karl Marx the Communist manifesto, was a Manchester...
One of the two, Vanderbilt University, signaled it had reservations.