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As ‘nasty split’ emerges on campuses, one Conservative society has opted to merge with their rightwing rivals
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Last year’s freshers’ fair was a dismal time for Newcastle University’s Conservative society, with just six new students showing any interest in joining at the start of the autumn term.
But this year’s event brought dozens of students showing up with...
For many young people, the online gaming world is a refuge, as well as a place to build up their digital skills through gaming and coding. Now, a new initiative to offer pathways into cybersecurity could help them put these talents to use
The superfast evolution of technology can create a digital divide between parents and their teens. Gen X and millennials may have had their childhoods...
Deeming universities too leftwing, outside donors and state governments are sponsoring curricula that center the classics, Christianity and the ‘great books’ of western civilization
A small conservative revolution has swept the humanities at some US colleges and universities. Its vanguard are new programs, called centers or institutes, that have begun cropping up at schools in recent years....
Professor Marianne Hirsch on how the way we teach the “crime of all crimes” informs our understanding of Gaza.
A stunning novel-in-verse sheds light on an unheralded moment in American history — when a Mexican community triumphed over educational injustice.
National Audit Office finds £415m overspend as more children travel farther to schools that meet their needs
Home-to-school transport costs in England have risen to £2.3bn a year, as increasing numbers of children with special educational needs and disabilities travel farther afield to schools that can meet their requirements, according to a report.
More than half a million children and young...
A new rule could disqualify certain employers from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program that are deemed to be engaged in “illegal activities.”
Owner of firm used by chancellor says he ‘deeply regrets’ issue
Rachel Reeves’ rental error: standards adviser looking at new information
Robert Peston, ITV’s political editor, says he thinks it is a mistake for the Conservatives to be saying Rachel Reeves should have to resign over the rental licence error. He explains why in a post on social media. Here is an extract.
Kemi Badenoch’s call...
My book, which draws on my upbringing on a diverse and deprived Luton council estate, has been used as a GCSE text. But one man objected to its profane language and depictions of violence and sexual behaviour
Back in September, in a measure designed to “prevent immorality”, the Taliban closed down the internet in Afghanistan. This was the latest step – after a ban on all girls over the...
Jay Falk explored a fundamental question: How do genes give rise to different bodies? But without funding, “there’s not really a future here.”
The government body says meningitis symptoms can easily be confused with a hangover.
The university students had been barred from bringing children or dependents by previous visa policies
Palestinian students taking up scholarships at UK universities will be allowed to bring their families from Gaza with them after the government said it would consider case-by-case exemptions.
The Gazan students had previously been unable to take up their scholarships because they were barred...
Growing number of schools are giving pupils and staff a fortnight off, but some parents complain of childcare costs
For many schools across England it’s currently October half-term – but while it used to be standard for state schools to have just one week, increasingly and staff are being given a fortnight off.
A growing number of schools have added, or are intending to add, an additional week...
The Labour government makes a new promise for schools containing the unsafe concrete.
In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss – and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
Aurora Nikula, 5, is having a normal day at her nursery. She is making a cake out of sand and mud, adding in make-believe carrots, potatoes and meat. “It’s overcooked,” she says as she splashes water in, then adds...
16 other states have sued the White House over the federal program, saying it’s trampling on authority of Congress
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At least 11 states and two territories are capitulating to a recent demand from the Trump administration to strip references to gender identity and the existence of transgender and non-binary people from a federal sex education program, officials...
Local authorities say the cost of providing school transport is becoming “financially unsustainable”.
How do you impress admissions tutors? Apparently not by waffling on about babysitting experience, or a love of crochet
It’s university entrance season, and so begin the trials of the personal statement, which now takes the form of three questions: “Why do you want to study this course or subject?; How have your qualifications and studies helped you to prepare for this course or subject?;...
Natalie Elliot wants changes to the rules but a minister says the UK is facing an “absence epidemic”.
Sam Coton, from Evesham, runs workshops in schools to help pupils cope with modern life pressures.
Education secretary promises ‘clear timelines’ are in place to permanently remove crumbling concrete
All schools in England that received grant funding to pay for the removal of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) should be free of it by the end of this parliament, the education secretary has pledged.
Setting out a new timeline for dealing with the crumbling concrete crisis in...