Unions urge government to delay and revise changes to way schools are graded or headteachers will stop assisting inspectors
Headteachers are threatening to quit as part-time inspectors unless Ofsted delays and revises its changes to how schools and colleges are graded in England.
The warning is the latest blow to the inspection overhauls championed by Bridget Phillipson, the education...
President’s proclamation had barred foreign students from studying at top university, citing national security concerns
A federal judge on Monday blocked Donald Trump’s administration from implementing his plan to bar foreign nationals from entering the United States to study at Harvard University.
US district judge Allison Burroughs in Boston issued an injunction barring Trump’s...
Linda Pitcher was so self-conscious after cancer surgery that removed part of her nose, she wouldn’t even answer the front door. Now, at 61, she’s a successful artist showing her work in public
For many months after skin cancer surgery, Linda Pitcher couldn’t leave the house. She avoided answering the front door, and if she had to go into her local village, she wore a hat and pulled it low....
Labour makes funding centrepiece of its industrial strategy in bid to counter Reform’s surge in so-called red wall
The government will present a £275m investment in technical training and apprenticeships as the centrepiece of its long-awaited industrial strategy, in a direct challenge to Nigel Farage’s growing influence in England’s manufacturing heartlands.
When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired
Jordan Lloyd had been praying for something big to happen. The 35-year-old screenwriter was quarantining in her apartment in North Hollywood in June 2020. Without any work projects to fill her days, she picked up the novel Roots, by Alex Haley, to...
Knowledge trumps popularity in the long haul of trying to be influential, researchers say
When it comes to social climbing, it’s not who you know, or how many people you know, it’s about knowing who knows whom, research suggests.
Experts studying social connections made by first-year university students say those who ended up with the most influence were not necessarily the most popular, but...
High-needs deficits kept off council books for two more years in England, but some say it prolongs financial pain
Cash-strapped councils in England will be hit with hundreds of millions of pounds in extra costs after the government delayed tackling the £5bn deficits spent supporting children and young people with special needs and disabilities.
Nursery worker would not have been convicted of Genevieve Meehan’s manslaughter without footage, parents say
The weekend before Genevieve Meehan died was one of the best of her short life.
The nine-month-old with the beaming smile and emerald eyes was leaping through her milestones: she had taken her first tentative steps, hands clasped to her mother’s, and said her first word: “Dadda”....
Student Loans Company figures show 10% jump in a year as individuals increase borrowing to meet cost of living
Students in England are finishing their degrees with government loans averaging £53,000, a jump of 10% in a year, as they increase their borrowing to meet the rising cost of living.
The Student Loans Company (SLC) has released figures showing individual loan balances were £5,000...
School leaders and teachers say findings on climate risks make for ‘grim reading’
Children in England face prolonged “lost learning” caused by extreme heat and flooding at school, according to research on the potential impact of the climate crisis on education.
School leaders and teachers said the scenarios published by the Department for Education were “grim reading” regarding the climate...
Witch trials, Radio Free Europe and Green Day were all fair game for middle- and high-school competitors, who got their hands dirty for the sake of learning a full history – thorns and all
It only took 10 minutes for the trio of eighth-grade girls to recount the life story of Carol Ruckdeschel, the alligator-wrestling environmental activist sometimes called the “Jane Goodall of sea...