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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...
He caused an uproar by challenging the heroic status of Robert Falcon Scott, the Briton who led a doomed quest to the South Pole in 1912.
What if the valedictorians in our schools were the cool kids?
Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to make classes smaller across the largest U.S. school system. Like other parts of his agenda, it’s a costly task.
Mr. Hegseth’s order appeared to target his alma mater, Harvard’s Kennedy School for public policy.
Move by Pete Hegseth marks latest escalation by Trump administration against the Ivy League school
The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has said the Pentagon is ending all military training, fellowships and certificate programs with Harvard University, marking the Trump administration’s latest escalation against the Ivy League school.
“The @DeptWar is formally ending ALL Professional...
Campaigners have criticised the terms of loans that were issued in England and still exist in Wales.
Bard College’s president, Leon Botstein, said his school needed cash. But a rare watch and a Caribbean visit show how his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein sometimes veered into the personal.
A recent report found that a majority of grades given out at Harvard were A’s. Professors will vote on a proposal to limit the number to around 20 percent.
Teachers, Ofsted and unions will study how new report cards affect school leaders’ wellbeing.