Analysis from Institute for Fiscal Studies says in short term figure will be lower
Labour is facing calls for action from a large group of its Muslim MPs, councillors and mayors, who believe Keir Starmer is mishandling the crisis in Gaza, Eleni Courea reports.
Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, has been giving interviews this morning about the free school meals announcement. She told...
The president’s proclamation barred travel from a variety of countries, including Afghanistan, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
Education department accuses university of violating federal anti-discrimination laws and notifies accreditor
The Department of Education announced on Wednesday afternoon that it has notified Columbia University’s accreditor of a violation of federal anti-discrimination laws by the elite, private university in New York that is part of the Ivy League.
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The gowns and mortar boards were out in customary force at Harvard last week for graduation day. Founded in 1636, 140 years before the United States itself, the university knows a thing or two about how to do pomp and ceremony.
Nish Kumar among comedians warning that rising costs could stop university revues visiting the festival
‘I don’t have any family connections in comedy or television, my leg up was that I went to a posh university that had this relationship with Edinburgh,” says Nish Kumar, who joined sketch group the Durham Revue while he was a student and got his first taste of the Edinburgh festival...
Those hoping to study in US are in limbo or looking elsewhere after president’s targeting of foreign students
For weeks, Subash Devatwal’s phone has not stopped ringing. Some of the calls have been from distressed students, at other times it is their panicked parents, but all have the same question – is their dream of studying in the US still possible?
A small corner of one of the world’s oldest universities has moved the sport forward, and made the argument for research institutions writ large
If you hope to grasp why modern soccer looks the way it does, or the long strides we’ve made recently in understanding how it actually functions, it helps to know about what’s been happening at one of the world’s oldest universities, in...
Megha Vemuri gave speech the day before commencement, condemning the university’s ties to Israel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) barred its 2025 class president from attending her graduation ceremony on Friday after she delivered a speech during a commencement event the day before condemning the war in Gaza and criticizing the university’s ties to Israel.
Aaron Koller hopes to encourage a broader interest in Hebrew, which he says is seen as ‘a political thing’
When Henry VIII established a royal professorship in Hebrew nearly 500 years ago, the idea that a Jew would fill the role at Cambridge studying the ancient language of the Israelites was impossible.
“It’s not surprising, if you know that at the time of Henry VIII Jews were banned from...
If the US’s oldest university bends the knee, the door to authoritarianism opens and democracy fades, experts warn
In mortarboards and crimson-fringed gowns, thousands of students were joined by smiling families for the centuries-old ritual of graduation day. But this year was different.
Alan Garber, the president of Harvard University, received a standing ovation and welcomed graduates “from...
