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Education

‘I saw the writing on the wall’: Austria offers safe haven for US academics as Trump wages war on universities

10 February at 07:01 AM, via The Guardian

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...

Reform-led Worcestershire set to issue England’s largest council tax rise

09 February at 21:49 PM, via The Guardian

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...

San Francisco teachers begin first strike in nearly 50 years

09 February at 17:14 PM, via The Guardian

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...

Children with special needs in England will keep current support, minister says

09 February at 14:54 PM, via The Guardian

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 Guardian view on student loans: a graduate levy by stealth is no way to fund the NHS | Editorial

08 February at 19:25 PM, via The Guardian

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...

Schools that cultivate the mind but neglect spiritual education leave children unanchored in a challenging world | Kat Eghdamian

08 February at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

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...

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