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Time is running out to find agreement on areas such as tuition fees EU citizens would pay in Britain and rules for food safety
The EU is hoping to urgently reboot talks on the “reset” of relations with the UK as negotiations are in danger of foundering before a planned July summit.
At a public meeting of the EU-UK parliamentary partnership assembly in Brussels, the European Commission...
The documentary about Vladimir V. Putin’s wartime indoctrination of Russian schoolchildren won an Oscar at Sunday’s Academy Awards.
Readers respond to a column by Nicholas Kristof. Also: Artificial intelligence pitfalls in school.
Does “choice” in Idaho mean vouchers for private-school tuition or publicly funded remote learning that has brought AP classes and advanced math to the state’s rural reaches?
President Trump ordered officials to remove information deemed disparaging to the United States. A review of government documents shows little guidance and striking inconsistencies.
Harvard is the White House’s biggest target, but professors all over the country have been censoring themselves, avoiding provocative topics and rewriting grants.
Jeffrey Epstein used his money and influence in the world of elite private schools to assist friends and acquaintances.
The National Endowment for the Humanities seldom gave seven-figure grants. Now big awards flow to handpicked projects, including an institution with three full-time employees.
Study shows average time on screens each day is 41 minutes, with some watching more than three hours a day
Three-quarters of nine-month-old babies in England are allowed daily screen time, while a small “heavy use” group watch more than three hours a day, according to a study.
Just 2% of the infants included in the research reportedly watched more than three hours a day, while the average...
Pausing the scrapping of existing qualifications was the right decision. But the wider battle over further education continues
The government’s granting of a stay of execution to popular courses including health and business studies BTecs, while alternatives are developed, is a victory for common sense. It should not have taken a years‑long campaign by the college sector to prevent the...
Ministers go to Brussels for talks amid tuition fees standoff, almost 10 years after Britons voted to leave EU
This week is “Brexit reset” week for the British government, as ministers engage in a flurry of activity intended to highlight their determination to forge closer ties with Brussels almost 10 years after the country first voted to leave the EU.
On Monday, Nick Thomas-Symonds, the...
National Secular Society to launch court action after failure to investigate alleged breaches of academic freedom laws
A university regulator in England has failed to investigate potential breaches of laws protecting academic freedom at a dozen theological colleges and is now facing legal action, the Guardian has learned.
The National Secular Society says it is preparing to pursue the Office...
British negotiators ‘blindsided’ by Brussels’ demand for a reduction that could cost universities £140m a year
Britain is in a standoff with Brussels over a demand to cut university tuition fees for European students, in a row that threatens to scupper Keir Starmer’s planned EU reset.
EU officials say European students should pay “home” fees of about £9,500 a year as part of the...
At once, Mahmood Mamdani’s fame was eclipsed by his son’s. At the same time, the election of Zohran Mamdani has attracted new interest in his father’s work.
Theale reopens on Monday for 76 children, with temporary buildings coming to Thatcham in coming weeks
Yasiris Ortiz, a 28-year-old star from the Bronx, is helping to bring free table tennis programing to children across the city.
From mourning the life they no longer have to feeling never-ending pressure, women tell the BBC why they regret becoming mothers.
A group of Democratic attorneys general had sued to overturn the Trump administration’s new policy that demanded the past seven years of student application data.
Education secretary has claimed lawyers’ criticisms of her department’s policy changes are motivated by profit
Lawyers have been accused of exploiting parents of children with special needs by the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, who claimed their criticisms of the government’s policy changes were motivated by profit.
Speaking at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL)...
In the National Year of Reading, teachers say a culture of enthusiasm, from dress-up days, story time and book clubs, can reverse a national decline
Ajmal, 7, is an avid fan of the InvestiGators comic books. They feature two crime-busting alligator secret agents called Mango and Brash. “It’s really funny,” he says, then outlines the plot of his current favourite in exhaustive detail.
Wren, 8,...
In first study of its kind, Cambridge researchers found AI toys could misread some children’s emotions.