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Education

Disability Groups Fear RFK Jr.’s New Special Education Role

21 June at 19:59 PM, via New York Times

Alienated by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims about autism, advocates for disabled students are sounding the alarm about the Trump administration’s shifting special education programs to his department.

More than 2m Indian students resit medical entrance exam after alleged leak

21 June at 18:49 PM, via The Guardian

Applicants forced to retake one of the world’s toughest admission tests after claims questions sold on Telegram

More than 2 million aspiring Indian doctors have sat one of the world’s toughest entrance exams for a second time after an alleged question paper leak forced authorities to scrap the original test results.

Students arriving at test centres on Sunday were greeted by airport-style...

I can’t afford a tutor to help my daughter get into grammar school. Will she still fulfil her potential? | Annalisa Barbieri

21 June at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

You may be projecting your own school experience on to your daughter, but her needs are different and she has you to support her

I have two children aged eight and four. My eight-year-old is very bright. She’s in year 3 and doing year 6 maths. Her state school has large classes and limited resources, so I challenge her by doing fun maths at home. I wanted to try getting her into a grammar...

Rates on New Student Loans Will Rise on July 1

19 June at 15:00 PM, via New York Times

Higher interest rates take effect on July 1 for the next school year. Borrowers are already dealing with rising college costs and inflation elsewhere.

City & Guilds scraps mass redundancies and offshoring UK jobs to Greece

18 June at 19:17 PM, via The Guardian

PeopleCert had been planning to cut about 400 jobs in £22m savings drive at training body it bought last year

The vocational training body City & Guilds has guaranteed that plans for mass compulsory redundancies and the offshoring of hundreds of UK jobs to Greece will no longer go ahead.

The proposal to remove about 400 UK roles was first reported by the Guardian in December as part of a £22m...

VAT on private school fees not caused exodus to state sector, says Bridget Phillipson

18 June at 18:07 PM, via The Guardian

Education secretary cites admissions data for England, saying Labour is ‘rebalancing the system to focus on 94% of kids in state schools’

Adding VAT to private school fees has failed to trigger an exodus of pupils into the state sector despite widespread speculation that it would, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.

The Labour government applied 20% VAT to private school fees...

Nigel Farage to join populist and rightwing figures at ‘anti-woke Davos’ in London

18 June at 15:45 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: Event co-founded by Jordan Peterson will bring together rightwing figures, US state officials and anti-abortionists in London

Nigel Farage and fellow Reform UK MPs Sarah Pochin and Andrew Rosindell will be there. As will a plethora of Reform advisers, backroom staff and figures, such as Ben Delo, a British crypto billionaire who has given £4m to Nigel Farage’s party.

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