TUESDAY, 21 JANUARY 2025, 06:00
Pay review bodies will make final recommendations on proposed rises for teachers, NHS staff and other workers
The government is set for a clash with trade unions after ministers recommended a 2.8% pay rise for teachers, NHS staff and other public sector workers next year.
Government departments said they were budgeting for the rise, but unions argued the recommended rise would be insufficient...
About 3,000 people sheltered on the university’s campus in Malibu, Calif., overnight on Monday. Some of them watched the flames through the windows of a library.
Parents in England can now access 15 hours of free weekly childcare for children from nine months.
Bosses in the early years sector say the government’s uplift in funding will not cover rising costs.
A report to Devon County Council said the move could raise more than £5m a year.
Several first-grade students wet themselves at Bartlett elementary in Texas due to educator’s punishment
A Texas school teacher is reportedly “no longer employed” at the local district where she had been working after she prohibited her first-grade class from using the bathroom as punishment – causing several students to urinate on themselves.
According to a social media post from a school...
A rise of 5p paid to schools for free meals will take food of children’s plates, Adam Curtis says.
Thinktank calls on government to set a long-term vision for radical change
Council deficits in England could spiral to “absurd” levels in excess of £8bn in less than three years without radical reform of special educational needs funding, a leading economics thinktank has said.
Spending on pupils with SEN has gone up nearly 60% over the past decade, with the government announcing a further...
Twelve-year-old Hannah missed most of her primary education but has been receiving support to get her back to school.
Conservative justices voiced objections and concerns about the court’s failures to take up a series of cases on major social controversies.
The solution to today’s puzzle
Earlier today I set you the following puzzle, which I read in the new Sally Rooney novel, Intermezzo. Here it is again with the solution.
A liar who always lies says “All my hats are green.”
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Recruiters say young people are trying to impress by detailing their pastimes on job applications, including everything from fitness goals to ‘having a brat summer’
Name: Marathon times.
Age: Two and a half thousand years.
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The university says fewer international students are signing up because of new visa laws.
New technology alerts schools when students type words related to suicide. But do the timely interventions balance out the false alarms?
Saint Ann’s School hired Winston Nguyen knowing he had been imprisoned for fraud. Then someone began soliciting graphic sexual images from its students.
Idsall School has been making changes since being rated inadequate by Ofsted in September 2022.
The government has pledged to determine the evidence – and establish whether the benefits outweigh any potential harms of prescribing puberty blockers to children questioning their gender
The States says La Houguette Primary School has “significant” damage from Storm Darragh.
Fewer 18-year-olds are enrolling, especially at four-year schools. But the number of applications continues to grow
College enrollment is dropping at a “concerning” rate, according to new data.
Data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows enrollment of 18-year-old freshmen has dropped by 5% this fall semester. The data reflects enrollments reported for 1.4 million...
As Democrats try to fire up their fatigued base, two contests for the Virginia legislature will serve as the first measure of partisan enthusiasm since Donald J. Trump’s victory.
Forrest Meggers, a professor at Princeton University, has turned his home into a live-in laboratory that pushes the boundaries of sustainability.