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Education

‘Only Nazis ban books’: on the frontlines with students fighting Trump over higher education

06 March at 12:04 PM, via The Guardian

Documentary First They Came for My College goes inside the fight for academic freedom at Florida’s New College

It took a half century to build New College into a sanctuary of independent thought and less than a year to destroy it. In 2023 the beloved Florida liberal arts school became state governor Ron DeSantis’s latest target in his so-called war on woke. DeSantis decimated the school’s...

Vice-chancellor calls for review into student loans for those without A-levels

06 March at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Adam Tickell, of University of Birmingham, says money is loaned to people who ‘are not really capable of graduating’

A leading vice-chancellor has questioned whether students without A-levels should be eligible for government-backed student loans, as part of an effort to solve England’s university funding crisis.

Adam Tickell, vice-chancellor of the University of Birmingham, said universities...

RFK Jr urges medical schools to increase nutrition education training

05 March at 21:41 PM, via The Guardian

As part of his Maha agenda, health secretary wants schools to incorporate 40 hours of instruction

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Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr unveiled a new effort on Thursday aimed at increasing the amount of nutrition education taught in medical schools.

For months, Kennedy has urged medical schools to expand their nutrition curriculum and warned that...

Extra stress or a bit of fun? Teachers and parents discuss World Book Day

05 March at 20:16 PM, via The Guardian

As children dress up in UK and Ireland on Thursday, not everyone is on the same page over event’s pros and cons

Thursday is World Book Day in the UK and Ireland, with many primary schools encouraging children to take part.

However, schools in England are moving away from dressing up for the event due to concerns that the activity could detract from the promotion of reading for pleasure, experts...

Book Review: ‘Chosen Land,’ by Matthew Avery Sutton

05 March at 12:00 PM, via New York Times

In “Chosen Land,” Matthew Avery Sutton argues that, despite the intentions of certain founders, the First Amendment guaranteed that the United States would be a godly country.

Thursday briefing: ​Were a generation of students mis-sold the idea of a university degree?

05 March at 08:45 AM, via The Guardian

In today’s newsletter: Rising debts, frozen thresholds and spiralling interest have left ​millions of graduates questioning whether England’s student finance system still resembles the deal they were promised

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In November, Rachel Reeves tucked a freeze to student loan repayment thresholds into her autumn budget, to little fanfare. The threshold, normally expected to rise each tax...

‘Apartheid newsroom’: minority ethnic journalists still locked out of top jobs, report finds

04 March at 15:32 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: Survey suggests journalists from minority ethnic backgrounds feel excluded from influential posts and seen as ‘diversity hires’

Broadcast journalists from ethnic minorities are still locked out of top jobs and face a backlash after being perceived as “diversity hires”, according to a new survey of UK television newsrooms.

While there has been a sustained focus on racial diversity...

A.I. in New York Schools: What Lies Ahead?

04 March at 12:01 PM, via New York Times

The city has been absent from the list of school districts around the nation that are using A.I. in the classroom. That could change.

How RFK Jr. Is Trying to Revamp Medical School

04 March at 12:01 PM, via New York Times

The health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has tapped into an old debate about how much doctors should know about nutrition. But some of his ideas, and tactics, concern medical experts.

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