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Kernewek to have greater protections, like Welsh, Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic, so it can be used in education and legal hearings
The Cornish language is due to be given the same status as Welsh, Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic after the government submitted it for greater protections under a European charter.
Kernewek, spoken as a first language by 563 people according to the last census, has...
The New York Times Communities Fund has partnered with charities that invest in education at critical junctures across people’s life spans.
The U.S. first had a federal education department in 1867 — not 1979. Its history is critical in understanding the federal role in schools.
The enrollment chiefs at Tulane and the University of Chicago attracted many early applicants. Now both of them earn a lot of money.
The university will pay $75 million to regain its research funding and end investigations, the second highest payment by a school facing pressure from the administration.
With the help of A.I., a historian has identified the killer in a 1941 image that defined the savagery of the Nazi regime.
James ‘Jamie’ Richards left several staff traumatised and was described as “predatory” by a panel.
Readers respond to an editorial about access to abortion. Also: A citizenship test for our leaders.
Families seeking help for their children’s complex needs describe threats of police action against them.
From 10 December, social media firms must ensure Australians aged under 16 cannot have accounts.
Bridget Phillipson has reassured MPs that Send costs will not fall on core schools funding but on government budget
Ministers are to reduce the rising cost of funding special educational needs provision through their overhaul of the system, as they faced calls to explain how a £6bn funding hole would be paid for.
The government is under pressure to clarify how it will pay for special...
Graduates in relatively low-paid jobs earning close to minimum wage will have to repay ‘more, much sooner’
The National Union of Students (NUS) has warned that a three-year freeze on the salary threshold for loan repayments could leave new graduates struggling to afford food, rent and bills.
In Rachel Reeves’s budget on Wednesday it was announced that from April 2027, the salary at which...
Ministers say the Office for Budget Responsibility’s projections do not take into account upcoming reforms.
The Buddy Bear School in Dungannon, County Tyrone, opened in 1993 and is the only school of its kind in Northern Ireland.
‘Once-in-a-generation transformation’ of Grade-I building will bring teaching spaces under same roof as gallery
The Courtauld has unveiled an £82m campus redevelopment it is calling a “once-in-a-generation transformation” of its Grade-I listed building at Somerset House in London.
The Stirling prize-winning architects Witherford Watson Mann will take charge of the project at the teaching and...
Councils welcome move but OBR says it is a significant fiscal risk and could lead to 4.9% real fall in spending per pupil
The government will take over full responsibility for special educational needs spending from local councils, it was revealed at the budget, prompting warnings that the Department for Education could be facing a £20bn timebomb in two years.
The Office for Budget...
The school, one of several to face pressure campaigns from the Trump administration, would pay a $75 million fine and have its research funding restored under terms of the agreement being discussed.
It can feel wrong to encourage young people to shoot for the stars – yet if no one did, our world would be empty of the artists, actors, athletes and visionaries who give it so much pleasure and meaning
Who wants to crush a kid’s dreams? Not me. But what to say when asked by a teenager about a career in the media? With tens of thousands of media, journalism and other graduates crowding into...
This documentary looks back at a group of teenagers who, in the early 1990s, created a high school video project that ended up breaking real news.
What does it mean to lose a language? And what does it take to save it? Those were the big questions being asked in Barcelona recently
There’s an Irish saying, tír gan teanga, tír gan anam: a country without a language is a country without a soul. Representatives of some of Europe’s estimated 60 minority languages – or minoritised, as they define them – met in Barcelona recently to...
An Appalachian community in Virginia was electrified by its high school team’s winning streak. Until the team’s coach disappeared — and allegations against him surfaced.