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Born of student disquiet after the 2008 crash, the group says it reshaping economists’ education
As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a group of students at Harvard University in the US walked out of their introductory economics class complaining it was teaching a “specific and limited view” that perpetuated “a problematic and inefficient...
As Bad Bunny showed at the Super Bowl, español is the coming thing. No wonder it’s now the top GCSE language choice
“Now, Gary, repeat after me: Quiero una margarita, por favor,” my Spanish tutor instructs. I cringe at the butchered Spanglish my estuary accent produces. Like Del Boy Trotter ordering a cocktail: “Key – yeah – row oon margari’a, pour far four.”
It’s 2023, I’m 41, living in...
Deb Hadden runs drop-off sessions, where children can play and learn with each other.
The government says schools needing “intensive support” will receive “one-to-one sessions”.
Other countries benefit from the Trump brain drain as administration wages war on academia and research
Wali Malik no longer has to worry that a rightwing bureaucrat – or influencer – will decide his research is “woke”.
He doesn’t have to fear government retaliation for speaking his mind or following the science wherever it may lead. And like others who have left a polarized United States for...
Relationships often change after children. Here are ways to help get your partnership back on track.
Industry figures say the friendly welcome at the Horological Society of New York has a lot to do with its longevity.
It comes days after the Local Government Association warned that eight in 10 English councils would face bankruptcy, if they had to honour deficits.
Leon Botstein, Bard’s president, also invited Jeffrey Epstein to visit a high school linked to Bard College and sent him well wishes after stories were published about his sexual abuse of minors.
Cap-busting tax hike will be embarrassing for the party, which has made low council tax a priority
Reform-led Worcestershire county council is likely to issue England’s largest council tax rise this April after it was given special permission by the government to increase it by up to 9%.
Worcestershire is one of a handful of authorities whose requests to be allowed to increase local rates above...
Thousands walk out after talks with district failed to reach agreement on wages, healthcare and resources for students with special needs
About 6,000 public schoolteachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday, the first public schoolteachers strike in the city in nearly 50 years.
The strike comes after teachers and the district failed to reach an agreement over higher wages, health...
Georgia Gould reassures parents that no child will be asked to leave school or have levels of assistance removed
Children with special needs will not lose their places at special schools or current levels of assistance, an education minister has told parents anxious that the government would strip away their child’s support.
Facing questions at an online forum, part of the Department for...
The strike closed public schools for more than 50,000 students in the city and had no end date. Health care costs are a key issue in negotiations.
Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana traditionally were America’s educational basement, but now they are showing blue states a way forward.
A disciplinary panel hears how the teacher reacted after having liquid sprayed in his face.
Former head teacher Michelle Stone was attacked by a student at a Hampshire special school.
More than a quarter of students at The London Academy of Excellence are offered places at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Ministers say UK universities have become a “prime target for foreign states and hostile actors”.
Over 41 seasons as head coach, he won two national titles and sent more than 200 players to the major leagues, including Mike Mussina and Jack McDowell.
By freezing thresholds, Labour is quietly loading the cost of public services on to young graduates, while insisting it has not raised taxes at all
The personal finance expert Martin Lewis upbraided the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, for freezing the threshold at which millions of graduates repay their loans, saying that this was treating student debts like tax. He was right, and Ms Reeves’s...
Young people are hungering for meaning. A lack of spiritual education in childhood can reverberate across a lifetime
Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life
As a parent, I want nothing more than for my children to grow into healthy, happy, purposeful human beings. Yet all around me – in classrooms, in conversation and in alarming...