THURSDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER 2025, 09:54
Dialects are powerful identifiers, especially when you’re from an ethnic minority
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There are times on The Long Wave desk when a conversation sparks a sort of group therapy session. A few weeks ago, Jason came back from a reporting trip to Barbados and made a comment about how some Bajans thought he was from the Caribbean, because his...
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Tending to a garden provides a lifelong education in science and wonder, if you get in the dirt and look closely.
The court heard she accepted she had given up trying to get the boy, 16, to attend lessons.
The Reform UK deputy leader says some children are receiving Send provision who do not need it.
The university sector, which is reliant on overseas students for a quarter of income, is key to economic activity in cities like Leicester and Hull
A crackdown on international students in Britain could hurt struggling cities where universities help power the local economy, the government has been warned.
Tens of thousands of overseas students are being contacted by the Home Office to tell them...
Esther Ghey urges government to implement legal ban and says current guidance creates ‘postcode lottery’
Esther Ghey, the mother of the murdered teenager Brianna Ghey, and the Oscar-winning actor Kate Winslet are calling on Keir Starmer to legally ban smartphones in schools, warning current guidance against allowing phones has created a “postcode lottery”.
As children in England and Wales...
Alberta ordered schools to pull “inappropriate” books, but paused its plan after a large school district banned scores of books in an apparent effort to make a point.
The display of contrition came after Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh issued a stern warning directing judges to heed their orders in August.
The prizewinning novelist’s unsparing memoir, “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” captures the eventful life and times of her mother, a driven educator and imperfect inspiration.
Engineers are working to restore water supplies as quickly as possible, the head teacher says.
Families in villages near York miss out on free transport to secondary school, sometimes by metres.
Our reporters address reader concerns about K-12 schooling.
Inspired by a funny request from his children years ago, his new series teaches young viewers about clouds, thunder and the ingredients of a rainbow.
In the essay collection “Our Fragile Freedoms,” Eric Foner wades again and again into the biggest debates surrounding human bondage in America.
About 130,000 to be contacted for first time in response to ‘alarming’ spike in numbers claiming asylum
Tens of thousands of foreign students are to be contacted directly by the government and warned that they will be removed from the UK if they overstay their visas.
The Home Office has launched the new campaign in response to what it has called an “alarming” spike in the number of...
In today’s newsletter: Poor teacher recruitment and retainment puts children on the back foot before they barely step in the classroom
Good morning. It’s back-to-school week, and the daily ritual (or, perhaps, panic) begins as uniforms are being donned and lunchboxes packed across the UK to start a new year. My sympathies to you teachers setting early morning alarms, and parents dragging...
Institute of Physics says ‘critical’ shortage means 700,000 pupils are deprived of a subject specialist
A quarter of state secondary schools in England will start the new term with no dedicated physics teacher, with schools in poorer areas worst affected, analysis has found.
The lack of specialists means more than half (58%) of pupils studying for a science GCSE will have the physics component...
Two-year-old Hannah cannot use most play equipment due to her cerebral palsy.
The new, higher premium placed on college application essays that focus on racially traumatic experiences produces numerous undesirable consequences.
Ministers are giving working families more support, but not a new public service
With the change of season, ministers know they must get back on the front foot after weeks during which their opponents have made the political weather. The launch of a new, more generous regime for funding early years education in England should help. The first of September was keenly awaited by hundreds of...