Dozens of Australian Schools Close Over Asbestos Fears
Three-quarters of the schools in the area around the capital will be closed, although officials say the health risk from asbestos found in colored sand is low.
Education
James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him.
James Watson’s legacy is a cautionary tale against letting a profound discovery shape your entire worldview.
‘Inclusive’ classroom to be tested during project
Scoill Yn Jubilee is taking part in a pilot scheme which has seen the redesign of a classroom.
Church and College Leaders Work to Free a Detained Afghan Student
When Ali Faqirzada was detained after a routine asylum hearing in New York, officials from Bard College and the Episcopal Diocese tapped their networks to help.
Judge bars Trump administration from cutting funding to University of California
White House had demanded $1.2bn from UC to restore funding after saying it allowed antisemitism on campus
The Trump administration cannot fine the University of California or summarily cut the school system’s federal funding over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimination, a federal judge ruled late on Friday in a sharply worded decision.
US district judge Rita Lin in San...
An Economist Asked, How Much Should We Spend to Avoid the A.I. Apocalypse?
The question “at first struck me as too open-ended to be usefully addressed by standard economics,” said Charles Jones of Stanford. He took a shot anyway.
America’s Formula for Greatness Is Under Threat
Education, open markets, trade and immigration transformed the United States into the world’s dominant power, but each is now being weakened.
Is Your College Football Team Short of Cash? Sports Betting Can Help.
Louisiana lawmakers tried a novel strategy for raising revenue, a model that proponents say might work more broadly.
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
Some Democrats and supporters of the National Endowment for the Humanities are questioning what they see as gutted procedures and a tilt toward handpicked projects.
Levy on international students’ tuition fees not in best interest of UK, says leader of top university
Duncan Ivison, president of Manchester University, says government’s 6% surcharge plan will ‘hurt the sector’
A levy on tuition fees paid by international students is “wrong”, will “hurt the sector” and is “not in the long-term interests” of the UK, according to the vice-chancellor of one of the country’s leading universities.
Duncan Ivison, who took over as president and vice-chancellor of the...
‘I fought for change to remove student housing stress’
Nathan Wyatt’s experience led to a new law giving students more time to find somewhere to live.
Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding
An extraordinary rebuke to the federal government’s campaign against elite schools, the ruling could upend settlement talks with the university system.
Boston University Student Attacked Online Over Claim He Called ICE on Workers
The student, the president of the school’s College Republicans club, said he reported immigrant carwash workers. Now he is facing online attacks after nine of the workers were detained.
Former U.Va. President Details Justice Department Pressure That Led to Ouster
In an extraordinary 12-page letter, James E. Ryan described the pressure campaign leading to his resignation as akin to a “hostage situation.”
Pupils to move out as school ceilings are replaced
A temporary classroom site is being created nearby to allow Denbigh primary to close for six months.
Special needs services in England face ‘total collapse’ from increasing demand
Councils say 59 authorities could go bankrupt by March 2028 without urgent structural reform
Special educational needs services in England face “total collapse”, with councils on course to have run up debts of £18bn by the end of the decade as a result of increasing numbers of children requiring extra teaching support in schools.
Without urgent structural reform of the system, the cost of...
Criminal inquiry into special needs teaching firm
Ofsted is investigating whether Remedicare Education failed to register as a school.
School librarian of the year emotional after win
Julie Broadbent is praised for her “unique ability to connect with pupils”.
A.I. Cheating Rattles Top Universities in South Korea
As many elite colleges struggle to adapt to the technology, the nation’s most prestigious universities said dozens of students used artificial intelligence tools to cheat.
‘Reframes history’: fears Māori knowledge diluted in plan to revise New Zealand curriculum
Minister rejects claims Māori history is being sidelined in rewrite which includes cutting some references to the Treaty of Waitangi
As cows grazed sleepily in a nearby paddock, then-14-year-old Leah Bell watched as a local Māori elder cried.
She was standing at the site of the massacre at Rangiaowhia, where Māori were deliberately burnt to death by the British crown in 1864. The site was just...
Councils warn of ‘total collapse’ in special needs system
The government is facing political pressure as it tries to reform the “broken” system of support for children with special educational needs.