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Education

Ofsted inspections pushing headteachers to ‘point of destruction’, union chief says

01 May at 18:32 PM, via The Guardian

NAHT leader says schools watchdog for England does not raise standards, amid opposition to ‘Nando’s-style’ scoring

School leaders are being pressurised “to the point of destruction”, the head of a teaching union has said, as he put the education establishment “on notice”.

During a speech to the union’s annual conference in Belfast, Paul Whiteman, the general secretary of the National...

‘It ruined my night’: photographers accused of targeting women at St Andrews May Dip

01 May at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

Students taking part in university’s annual ritual say images of them in swimwear are being published without consent in national newspapers

When the sun rises at dawn on Friday, hundreds of St Andrews University students will brave the chilly North Sea for the annual May Dip, an undergraduate ritual said to bring good luck in exams. But the students won’t be alone at the beach. In recent...

I took an algorithm to court in Sweden. The algorithm won | Charlotta Kronblad

30 April at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives

We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly. That when something goes wrong in the public system, alarms go off and someone takes responsibility or is held accountable if they do not. But in 2020 in Gothenburg, injustice arrived quietly,...

Office for Students’ University of Sussex humiliation is a symptom of deeper failings

29 April at 20:01 PM, via The Guardian

England’s higher education regulator must rebuild trust with troubled sector after series of blunders under previous leadership

In its brief and unhappy life, England’s Office for Students has been offered a series of challenges it has largely failed to meet. This week the latest and most embarrassing of those was unveiled, when the high court decisively rejected the higher education...

Oxford’s new £185m humanities hub is polished, refined … and funded by a Trump ally

29 April at 17:46 PM, via The Guardian

Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman’s portrait hangs discretely in a building that promises cultural clout and architectural poise – yet can seem rather bland and bloodless

When the wealthy Paduan banker Enrico Scrovegni commissioned the building of his eponymous chapel in the 14th century, he made sure that he was immortalised in the lavish frescoes adorning its interior. Florentine artist Giotto...

Sussex University overturns £585,000 fine as high court rejects free speech breach claim

29 April at 12:50 PM, via The Guardian

Ruling is blow to Office for Students after it issued fine for handling of protests over professor’s trans rights views

Sussex University has overturned a £585,000 fine by England’s higher education watchdog after the high court rejected claims the university had breached free speech regulations involving its former professor Kathleen Stock.

The ruling is a damaging blow to the credibility and...

Teaching in classes grouped by ability does not hamper progress of less able pupils, study finds

29 April at 01:01 AM, via The Guardian

Research on maths teaching in English secondary schools upends decades of debate over mixed-ability education

Teaching pupils in classes grouped by ability improves the results of high-flyers but does not affect the progress of less able children, according to a study that upends decades of debate over mixed-ability education.

The research by University College London’s Institute of Education...

Calls for ‘student premium’ to support disadvantaged young people after GCSEs

28 April at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Social mobility groups say post-16 funding gap risks young people falling out of education, work and training

A coalition of 14 social mobility organisations is urging the government to fund a “student premium” to support disadvantaged young people post-16 and prevent them from “falling through the cracks” into joblessness.

State-funded schools in England currently receive additional pupil...

Half of England’s schools unfit due to leaks, mould and faulty toilets, poll finds

28 April at 01:01 AM, via The Guardian

NAHT survey says widespread disrepair forcing closure of playgrounds and classrooms, with Send facilities also hit

Half of headteachers say parts of their school are either out of use or unfit for purpose due to leaks, damp, mould, asbestos, ageing boilers and malfunctioning fire doors, according to a new survey by the National Association of Head Teachers(NAHT).

Among those who say their...

The Guardian view on screens in schools: big tech is finally under the microscope | Editorial

27 April at 19:25 PM, via The Guardian

Scrutiny of the impact of technology on children’s lives and education should be welcomed

A new law banning mobile phone use in schools in England, which ministers reluctantly agreed to last week, is on one level the result of political manoeuvring by Liberal Democrat and Conservative peers – who forced their hand by threatening to derail the schools bill. Until now, the government’s...

What the parties promise Welsh voters on the NHS, schools, childcare and tax

27 April at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

Labour, Plaid Cymru, Reform, the Greens, the Tories and the Lib Dems set out competing plans but offer little detail on how they would pay for them

The parties most likely to win the Senedd election next month offer radically different futures for Wales, but all six are facing criticism for not being “upfront” in their manifestos about the fiscal challenges the next Welsh government will...

HSBC ‘reviewing’ private school perk for bankers in Hong Kong

27 April at 10:31 AM, via The Guardian

Hundreds of senior staff in territory benefit from nearly £30,000-a-year grant per child not available to staff in group’s other hubs

HSBC is reportedly reviewing a perk that covers school fees for bankers in Hong Kong as part of a big overhaul of the bank under chief executive Georges Elhedery.

Europe’s largest bank is considering whether to scrap the perk for new employees or make changes...

I’m out of a job after issues at the schools I worked for. Is it my fault? | Annalisa Barbieri

26 April at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

It feels as if your work and your identity are fused. You’ll get through this, but you may have to use this time to consider other careers

I’ve been a teacher for more than 20 years and loved it. I had promotions every couple of years and was happily making my way up the ladder. This year, however, I was made redundant because of restructuring and this has thrown me into a feeling of complete...

A federal program has helped Native Hawaiian medical students for 35 years. It’s now being sued for discrimination

25 April at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Do No Harm, a conservative group, wants the scholarship, which has helped islands’ underserved communities, declared unconstitutional

Doctors and health experts in Hawaii say a decades-old federal program meant to support Native Hawaiians through medical school and better serve some of the islands’ most underserved communities is under attack after a conservative group filed suit.

For more than...

‘I’m spending my house deposit savings to pay off my postgrad student loan’

24 April at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

Lucy O’Brien was shocked when she discovered how high interest rates were leading to ballooning debt

Like many of my drowning-in-debt “plan 2” student loan comrades, I didn’t think twice about diving straight into a master’s degree, bright-eyed and fresh out of my undergraduate course in 2021.

To say I was naive to the additional financial burden would be an understatement. Even less did I...

The cinema lab: brain activity tracked to find secret to creating immersive films

23 April at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Bristol University project aims to help directors make better movies and take greater risks – with one already onboard

At first glance, it looks like any high-end cinema: booming surround sound, a razor-sharp 4K projector and rows of reclining seats. But instead of clutching popcorn, a headset records my brain activity and a heart rate monitor wraps around my arm while infra-red cameras capture...

Plan for healthier school meals in England will hit services, say caterers

23 April at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

Trade body warns that changes are likely to drive up costs and push pupils to find somewhere to buy junk food

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A government push to get schoolchildren eating more lentils, pulses and beans at lunch could have a “devastating effect”, making catering services unviable, school meal providers have warned.

Proposals for healthier meals in English schools, which would...

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