As the grandchild of a survivor, I’m proud to keep his testimony alive, in the hope that people never forget the horrors humanity is capable of
Yesterday, I watched A Real Pain in the cinema. The film is a beautiful representation of two cousins, united in love and grief for their grandma, exploring their family history on a heritage trip to Poland. This experience is familiar to so many Jews I...
Lack of knowledge about Holocaust identified as well as level of denial and disinformation seen on social media
A third of young adults in the UK are unable to name Auschwitz or any of the other concentration camps and ghettoes where the crimes of the Holocaust were committed, according to a study.
Other growing gaps in knowledge – especially among those aged 18-29 – were also identified,...
Ten children talked about losing their homes, their schools and their neighborhoods in the Los Angeles fires. They discussed what they’re worried about and what’s cheering them up.
Dozens of underperforming schools have been forced to wait more than a year to reopen under new management
Dozens of schools rated inadequate by Ofsted have faced waits of more than a year before reopening, amid accusations from Labour that they were “left to fester” by the former Conservative government.
The state of schools and the future of academies has become the subject of an increasingly...
Some school buildings are in gang-occupied territory or have become de facto shelters for those forced from their homes, leaving hundreds of thousands with no chance for formal learning.
Exclusive: Scott McDonald is looking at budget cuts and axing the organisation’s presence in up to 40 countries
• Why the financial crisis at the British Council matters as UK pushes soft power
The British Council could “disappear” within a decade, harming the UK’s global status and leaving an international vacuum to be filled by Russia and China, unless the government acts to save it,...
How a chain of events apparently beginning at school five years ago led to the murder of three girls in horrific atrocity
When Axel Rudakubana returned to school after the summer holidays five years ago, something had changed. He had turned 13 weeks earlier but this was not the usual difficult transition to teenage life.
“In year 7 and year 8 he was fairly unassuming. Nothing that would be...
Labour’s recognition of soft power’s intangible value should take in the crucial work of the British Council
• British Council could disappear within a decade, says chief executive
Something is jarring when the foreign secretary, David Lammy, regards UK soft power as so important he establishes a council to promote the country globally, while one of the longstanding British institutions devoted...
The department said it would relinquish its role investigating schools that had received civil rights complaints after removing books dealing with sexual and racial identity.
The proposal to create the nation’s first religious charter school paid for by taxpayer funds could move the line between church and state in education.
What the pushback against a more equal society could mean for a world fraught with power imbalances
When American voters headed to the ballot box in November, polls suggested the cost of living, immigration and reproductive rights ranked among their biggest concerns.
But tucked within this week’s barrage of executive orders was an attack on an initiative that had in recent years become...
Many educators and families were thrilled to get back to some routines as a handful of schools reopened after weeks of closures. Others were worried about remaining dangers in fire-hit areas.
