THURSDAY, 03 APRIL 2025, 05:29
Dr. Rasha Alawieh was detained in Boston and then deported after returning from a trip to Lebanon. The government says a judge’s order that she be allowed to stay in the U.S. came too late.
Ivy League school is latest US university to make step with aim to make it affordable to ‘more students than ever’
Harvard University is offering free tuition to more students, the Ivy League school announced on Monday, joining a growing number of higher education institutions in the US to take such a step.
The announcement from Harvard says that undergraduate tuition at the institution in...
Amanda Spielman says outlined changes ‘put unions and union members ahead of children’
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Oftsed’s former chief inspector has sparked a row with the government after saying the proposed legislation on schools was “very likely” to make education in England worse.
Amanda Spielman, who was head of the schools inspectorate in England when primary headteacher Ruth...
The answers to today’s triangular teasers
Earlier today I set you these mind-mangling puzzles about non-Euclidean geometry, in which the internal angles of triangles do not add up to 180 degrees.
1. Right, Right, Right.
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They were supposed to boost vocational learning, but they’re not popular with students and the dropout rate is high. Time for a dose of realism
What’s in a name? With T-levels, quite a lot. By choosing a title that sounded a lot like A-levels – with T for technical – the reformers behind England’s latest post-16 qualification sent a message that the days of vocational education’s...
David Zell drove into a ground-floor bedroom, where two people were asleep.
Harvard is the latest elite school to announce that families with incomes of $200,000 and under will not pay tuition as a way to bolster diversity.
The president revived a number of falsehoods he had used on the campaign trail last year, including his lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
The former head of Ofsted Amanda Spielman says the government should “think again” on its reform proposals.
Diane Abbott says a wealth tax of 2% on people with assets over £10m would raise £24bn a year
The Reform UK press conference is about to start. There is a live feed here.
Nigel Farage is going to announce that 29 councillors have defected to his party, according to the Guido Fawkes website.
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Recusal from case with huge implications for education could tilt scales in cause her friend spent a career defending
In 2020, when Amy Coney Barrett came before the Senate for confirmation to the US supreme court, one of her closest friends told a story on TV about their year together working as law clerks in the nation’s capital.
“That last day when you leave the court you think, ‘Wow,...
A trio of triangle teasers
The ancient Greek geometer Euclid presented a list of five axioms he held to be self-evidently true. They are (or are equivalent to):
You can draw a line between any two points.
You can extend lines indefinitely.
You can draw a circle at any point with any radius.
All right angles are equal.
All triangles have internal angles that add up to 180 degrees.
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Allison Gardner says schools should be commended for using artificial intelligence in teaching.
Parents and carers say their fight against the closure of Queensway Primary in Yeadon will continue.
Lancaster Academy, LeicesterRoss Willis and Ned Bennett’s audacious adventure for schools is a cult in the making, with a post-apocalyptic plot, snappy gags and a trash-talking baby
This is a textbook example of how to approach theatre for schools. Its new touring production, reaching 10,000 secondary students, finds the National Theatre firing on all cylinders with a gripping, often...
Reserve Bank move follows 2023 decision not to place King Charles on the back of the note. Follow today’s news live
Man drowns in Hunter region waterhole
A man in his 20s has drowned at a waterhole near Dungog in the Hunter region of New South Wales.
We apologise for this break in our program, we will return to normal programming as soon as possible.
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Thinktank says unauthorised absence is ‘a leading cause’ of performance gap between disadvantaged pupils and peers
Unauthorised school absence is a leading cause of the widening performance gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers in England, according to analysis from a respected thinktank.
The research by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) found that all of the increase in the...
Those from the lowest income families are now up to 19 months behind peers by the age of 16.
The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil show that the culture war is no longer just a culture war.
Free school meals in Wales should be “healthier and more climate friendly”, a leading academic says.
Plans to axe a fifth of the workforce at Dundee University have drawn attention to problems in the sector.