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NFER says pupil behaviour, stagnant pay and inflexible working practices contributing to exodus from workforce
Teachers in England are abandoning the classroom over worsening pupil behaviour, stagnant pay and inflexible working practices, leaving vacancies at their highest rate on record, according to a report.
It warned that this month’s spending review was the government’s “last...
Kim Johnson tells parliament lessons must be learnt from poor treatment of children at institutions in 1960s and 70s
The historic injustice of a scandal in which black children were incorrectly labelled “educationally subnormal” and sent to schools for physically and mentally disabled pupils must be addressed with a public inquiry, an MP has said.
Kim Johnson, the Labour MP for Liverpool...
Many of us believe that cognitive decline is an inevitable part of ageing, but a new study looking at how our skills change with age challenges that idea. Ian Sample talks to Ludger Woessmann, a professor of economics at the university of Munich and one of the study’s authors, to find out how the team delved into the data to come to their conclusions, and what they discovered about how we can...
At least 800 education department research employees and outside partners have lost jobs. The cuts will decimate research and data collection.
Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident who the Trump administration has claimed is a national security threat, is in immigration detention in Louisiana.
The deputy director of a liberal project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to Samidoun, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists.
More than 1,300 dismissals seem first step toward quashing US agency entirely as education secretary touts ‘efficiency’
The Trump administration has decimated the US Department of Education, firing more than 1,300 employees in a single day in what looks to be the first step toward abolishing the agency entirely.
The mass dismissal – delivered by email after most staff had left for the day on...
The TV chef and campaigner met with the education secretary to ask for government action.
Campaigners say the Employment Rights Bill is a big opportunity to improve job security for new dads.
As universities cut jobs, the regulator is worried about the reputation of higher education in Wales.
Report finds evidence smartphones cause harm but also hears they can help pupil welfare and safety.
Firings announced Tuesday as administration decried as ‘detached from how Americans live’
The US Department of Education intends to lay off nearly half of its workforce. The layoffs of 1,300 people were announced by the department on Tuesday and described by the education secretary, Linda McMahon, as a “significant step toward restoring the greatness of the United States education system”.
In a...
The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.
Eight states had requested a temporary restraining order, which judge granted saying ‘programs … will be gutted’
A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday blocked the Donald Trump administration’s plan to cut hundreds of millions of dollars for teacher training, finding that cuts are already affecting training programs aimed at addressing a nationwide teacher shortage.
The US district judge Myong...
Interim principal says drastic measures needed to tackle £35m shortfall in day-to-day spending
Dundee University has announced plans to cut more than 600 jobs and reduce its teaching by a fifth to help cope with a £35m deficit in its accounts.
The university’s interim principal, Prof Shane O’Neill, said that nearly 200 academic staff and 435 support staff would be made redundant, with every...
The University and College Union condemned the “devastating” cuts, which will affect about 20% of the workforce.
An academy trust that runs two Bristol schools blames a falling birth rate for having to merge them.
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. students haven’t recovered, and it’s widening inequality in our country. Sarah Mervosh, an education reporter at The New York Times who focuses on K-12 schools, explains in three charts how the pandemic had a lasting impact in the classroom.
Instead of speaking out on the hot-button debates of the day, more schools are making it a policy to stay silent as political pressure mounts against higher education.
Unions representing further education lecturers are balloting their members on strike action.
With 80% of 10-year-olds unable to read for meaning, the government is prioritising literacy and numeracy among pre-school pupils as it tackles its education problems
When she noticed children hanging around with nothing to do after school in the sprawling Johannesburg township of Soweto in 2016, Faith Nedoboni decided to start an after-school programme. But as she helped them with their...