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Report says children born today could earn 51% more over lifetime if their country’s human capital improved
Deteriorating health, education and training in many developing countries is dramatically depressing the future earnings of children born today, the World Bank says.
In a report the World Bank urges policymakers to focus on improving outcomes in three settings: homes, neighbourhoods and...
In a bid to combat the impact of screen-time creep, the Countdown word supremo has a few suggestions
Children’s vocabulary shrinking as reading loses out to screen time, says Susie Dent
Children’s vocabulary is shrinking as reading loses out to screen time, the Countdown lexicographer Susie Dent has suggested, as she urged families to read, talk and play word games to boost language...
Exclusive: Countdown lexicographer urges families to read, talk and play word games to help language development
Children’s vocabulary is shrinking as reading loses out to screen time, according to the lexicographer Susie Dent, who is urging families to read, talk and play word games to boost language development.
The Countdown star’s warning comes as the government prepares to issue advice...
In this installment of The Conversation, David Brooks says goodbye to The Times, and offers his parting thoughts.
After the death of Georgia Scarff, a coroner says safeguarding record-keeping should be standardised.
Policy announced in autumn budget freezes threshold at which students start repaying university loans
Protesters dressed as sharks and in Rachel Reeves face masks gathered outside the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday to express their anger over changes to their student loans and their ballooning debt.
The demonstration by members of the National Union of Students (NUS) characterised the...
A letter to parents from Collingwood College says a Year 8 child died in an incident on Monday.
The mayor would need $700 million for teachers to reduce class sizes in line with a state mandate.
They churn out research papers at a rapid pace, but the quality of these publications has too often been in question.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says the government’s 10-year strategy is a “turning point” for schools.
Special spaces are a key part of government’s planned overhaul of special educational needs support
Secondary schools in England must provide specially designed areas for neurodiverse children and pupils with special educational needs, ministers have said.
Universal “inclusion bases” are spaces away from classrooms where children with additional needs can get support for some lessons. They...
Teachers and admin teams spend 100 hours a week enforcing rules, Birmingham University research finds
Smartphone policies in English secondary schools are a “huge drain” on resources, with staff spending on average more than 100 hours a week enforcing restrictions, according to research.
Teachers, teaching assistants, caretakers and receptionists are involved with helping to police pupils’...
He survived the Holocaust and Communist rule in Hungary, arrived penniless in New York and made himself into a pre-eminent Civil War scholar.
Federal records show that Jeffrey Epstein used donations and connections as he sought to gain college admission for young women in his orbit.
From Pennsylvania to Montana, the White House’s war on ‘woke’ has targeted US monuments that address topics like racism and Indigenous history
Blank spaces now exist where a series of panels about enslavement once appeared on the walls of the President’s House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The site, which honors the home of George Washington and John Adams, is a major landmark that bore...
The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, who is from Turkey, was detained by immigration agents last year after she co-wrote a pro-Palestinian opinion article for her student newspaper.
Local police assisted federal immigration agents by repeatedly searching school cameras that record license plate numbers, data show
Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by the 74 reveals.
Hundreds of thousands of audit logs spanning a month show police are...
Members of staff at Tewkesbury Academy could strike for nine more days.
A freshman seminar encourages students to behave differently in the world and feel more passionately about biodiversity.
Born of student disquiet after the 2008 crash, the group says it reshaping economists’ education
As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a group of students at Harvard University in the US walked out of their introductory economics class complaining it was teaching a “specific and limited view” that perpetuated “a problematic and inefficient...
As Bad Bunny showed at the Super Bowl, español is the coming thing. No wonder it’s now the top GCSE language choice
“Now, Gary, repeat after me: Quiero una margarita, por favor,” my Spanish tutor instructs. I cringe at the butchered Spanglish my estuary accent produces. Like Del Boy Trotter ordering a cocktail: “Key – yeah – row oon margari’a, pour far four.”
It’s 2023, I’m 41, living in...