
Our babies were taken after ‘biased’ parenting test – now we’re fighting to get them back
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
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The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.

A head teacher in Camden decides to stop fining parents and instead ask them to attend courses.

Some teachers and pupils voice concerns about pilot programme after government’s agreement with OpenAI
Secondary school teachers in Greece are set to go through an intensive course in using artificial intelligence tools as the country assumes a frontline role in incorporating AI into its education system.
Next week, staff in 20 schools will be trained in a specialised version of ChatGPT,...

Parents of Oliver Steeper, who died in 2021 after choking at nursery, are campaigning for change.

When Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine posted complaints about their local primary school, they never expected six uniformed police officers to turn up at their door
Before it catapulted a small school community in London’s commuter belt into the centre of a global news story, the year-four class WhatsApp group at Cowley Hill school in Borehamwood was unremarkable – a place of snide comments,...

More than 30 pupils at Sandelford Special School in Coleraine are facing remote learning due to health and safety issues.

Numbers taking languages at A-level and beyond has been falling for decades, although Duolingo says its app is most popular with young people
Universities are blaming a “societal shift” for the axing of dozens of foreign language degrees and even entire departments, citing a lack of demand among students – but can years of study be easily replaced by AI or online translation tools?
Not so,...

B&Bs and hotels represent the worst kind of emergency accommodation, a housing officer says.

The news heightens concerns that 88 schools in Stoke-on-Trent could be left with unfinished work.

Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country
At first sight, few suspected that Francisco Franco might become a strongman capable of imposing a brutal dictatorship across four decades. He was a short, squeaky voiced army officer with a shaky grasp on non-military matters and zero charisma. Yet he did...

Whilst the figure has dropped slightly, it still equates to one-in-eight young people in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Up to 40 firefighters deal with the blaze that started in a kitchen.

Two teaching unions are holding strike ballots over how long teachers should spend in the classroom.

A Lancashire school says some top sets are taught this way due to a shortage of specialist teachers.

There are 27% fewer art teachers in England today than there were in 2011, and the proportion of students taking arts subjects has plummeted. Here’s what it’s like to work in a job that is essential and often perilously undervalued
When 64-year-old Sue Cabourn began her career in the late 90s, the next generation of artists including Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Gillian Wearing were dominating...

Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
Students at the University of Staffordshire have said they feel “robbed of knowledge and enjoyment” after a course they hoped would launch their digital careers turned out to be taught in large part by AI.
James and Owen were among 41 students who took a coding module at...

With students terrified and arrests rising, educators turn activists – scanning streets, sharing alerts and defending the right to feel safe
Three teachers drove through a quiet neighborhood in southern San Diego, the sun not yet fully up over the horizon. They drank coffee and talked about their jobs. The start of the school day was still an hour or two away.
Suddenly, mid-conversation, they...

The government says it wants to tackle the high number of people not in education, employment or training.

Newly released Epstein documents drag the ex-treasury secretary into deeper scrutiny as Harvard widens its review
Harvard is set to launch a new investigation into former university president and Bill Clinton economic adviser Larry Summers about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as it also emerged Summers has resigned from the board of OpenAI.
The moves comes after Summers said he would...

The number of childminders in England is falling – with one charity warning they could all be gone by 2033.

Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed
Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.
The University of Nottingham’s council will next week decide the...