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What to Do About the White House Correspondents Dinner After an Attack?
A gunman’s attack at the April dinner has spurred more debate than usual about one of Washington’s most dissected rituals.
How Brandeis Is Trying to Change College Shopping
A new tool on the university’s website tells you what the first year “will” cost if you get in.
Teachers in England to vote on striking over pay
The National Education Union says it will hold a formal ballot this autumn without “urgent action”.
‘It’s about recognising our role in history’: Bradford exhibition to revisit live Somali display
At the city’s Great Exhibition of 1904, 57 Somali men, women and children cooked, weaved and danced for visitors
It was, the posters said, a rare chance to see a “little known but interesting people”: a live display of 57 Somali men, women and children who cooked, weaved and danced for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of Edwardians who flocked to Yorkshire to see them.
More than 120...
The New Harvard Trend? Getting Punched in the Face.
Harvard’s boxing club is drawing new members. So are boxing clubs at other colleges, as students look for real-life connection.
Mahmoud Khalil Hurtles Toward Potential Deportation as U.S. Speeds Case
A key judicial decision in Mr. Khalil’s immigration case was expedited significantly and included the recusal of multiple judges.
Sexual harassment more than twice as prevalent at England’s top universities, analysis finds
Harassment reported by 35% of students at ‘high tariff’ institutions compared with 17% at those with lowest entry grades
Students at England’s leading universities were more than twice as likely to experience sexual harassment than those at “lower tariff” institutions, according to analysis.
Data from a national survey of undergraduates shows that 35% of students at “high tariff”...
Historic Oxford cinema under threat as Oriel College refuses to extend lease
The Ultimate Picture Palace opened in 1911 and is housed in a Grade II-listed building which is in need of renovation
The survival of one of the UK’s oldest independent cinemas is under threat while its landlord, Oxford University’s Oriel College, refuses to extend its lease to allow vital renovations.
The Ultimate Picture Palace in east Oxford opened in 1911, and has entertained generations of...
Mo Farah urges against possible £120m cut to school sports in England
Athlete and sport bodies call for rethink after health and education departments each propose £60m funding cuts
Mo Farah and more than 70 leading UK sporting bodies have demanded the government rethink potential £120m cuts to school sports in England, after a clash between two departments over the funding.
The Guardian reported earlier this year that the Department of Health and Social Care had...
My kids are taking their first big exams – and revealing my own anxieties about AI and long division | Emma Brockes
As the traditional route of school, university and entry-level job is ever more precarious, it’s no wonder parents are feeling the strain
Called on to do long division, how would you fare? I had no illusions going in. I couldn’t do it the first time round and, four decades later, it seemed unlikely the situation had improved. (For a split second I thought AI might help, but it was like...
Palestinian ambassador protests to Foreign Office over ’erasure’ by British Museum
Objection after museum removes word ‘Palestine’ from list of countries of ancient Levant and Egypt and from some explanatory panels
The Palestinian ambassador to the UK has called for Foreign Office intervention after the British Museum removed references to Palestine from its exhibits.
The UK recognised the state of Palestine in September 2025, but the same year the museum removed the name...
‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools
Researchers say findings are not reason to shy away from restrictions as MPs consider ban in England’s schools
Strict bans on mobile phones in schools have “close to zero” impact on student learning and show no evidence of improvements in attendance or online bullying, a study has found.
Researchers at US universities including Stanford and Duke looked at nearly 1,800 US schools where...
Dangerous baby-sleep advice given to parents by self-described experts, secret filming reveals
The advice puts babies at risk of serious harm, even death, medical professionals have told the BBC.
One in four humanities students in Australia to take more than 25 years to pay off student loans, treasury finds
Job ready graduates program will also leave almost two-thirds of humanities and creative arts students with debts exceeding $50,000
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One in four humanities students will take more than 25 years to fully repay their student loans because of Morrison government changes to university fees, newly public Treasury modelling reveals.
The job...
Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother – podcast
Once violently defended from extinction, Welsh is still a part of daily life. By learning my family’s language, I hoped to join their conversation
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‘Go inside, he will kill you’: Israeli militants step up West Bank school attacks
Education is being targeted across Palestine, with the murder of 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan only the latest in a spree of violence
The Israeli reservist shot 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan in the head just outside the western gate of the Mughayyir boys’ secondary school, where he was studying in ninth grade.
Aws collapsed instantly, bleeding heavily. More shots rang out as his friends ran to his...
Revise, recall, then rest – your exam season survival guide
Teachers and tutors share tips for students to get through exam season.
Ofsted inspections pushing headteachers to ‘point of destruction’, union chief says
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
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...
What is Ofsted and how does the new school ratings system work?
The rating system changed after the death of head Ruth Perry highlighted the pressure of inspections.