Wealth of datasets compiled as private passions are now a goldmine for those hunting for their ancestors

The autumn sunlight is filtering through quietly falling leaves as Louise Cocker stands in front of the gravestone of James Henry Payne and takes a quick photograph. Payne died at the age of 73 in October 1917 and was buried in the Norfolk town of North Walsham, along with his wife Eleanor...

Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbers

Record numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions.

Senioruniversitet, a national university that collaborates with Sweden’s adult education...

Kateryna Endeberia says teachers made the ‘hurtful’ request when she had difficulty with other subjects

A Ukrainian refugee has been forced to drop out of sixth-form college after she said she was put under pressure to study Russian.

Kateryna Endeberia moved to Stoke-on-Trent after fleeing Ukraine in 2022, after the start of Russia’s invasion.

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Inverness Royal Academy said in a message to pupils and parents the new rule would start in February.

Governor calls accusations that students with disabilities may have been confined in boxes ‘highly disturbing’

A school district board in upstate New York is investigating school officials amid accusations that the district may have confined elementary school students inside wooden “timeout” boxes.

Images of the boxes, which resemble tiny padded cells, first spread on social media last week,...

Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a “zombie apocalypse” during the protest.

Malmesbury School’s Christmas dinner was under threat due to staffing issues, according to its head.

Office for Students accused of ‘glacial’ response to allegations of fraud, bullying and mismanagement

England’s universities regulator has been attacked for being “asleep at the wheel” over its delays in investigating suspected fraud, bullying and mismanagement at the University of Greater Manchester.

Phil Brickell, the MP for Bolton West whose constituency includes the campus, has accused the...

New data suggests singing is much more common in primary and private schools than in state secondaries.

Manar al-Houbi’s family had been denied entry despite a scholarship covering their living costs, but other students remain stranded

The UK government has finally evacuated Manar al-Houbi, the Gaza student who won a fully funded scholarship to pursue her PhD at the University of Glasgow, along with her family from the war-ravaged territory this week.

In October, the Guardian highlighted...

Bestselling author says focus on ‘masterpieces’ puts children off as he promotes prison literacy scheme

Too much of the literature taught in UK schools is putting children off reading and thrillers should become part of the curriculum, one of the world’s biggest selling authors has argued.

Lee Child, the British writer of Jack Reacher novels, which have sold more than 100m copies worldwide,...

The measure is part of the government’s strategy to tackle violence against women and girls in England.

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The government has announced a multimillion-pound investment to tackle misogyny in England’s schools, but is it enough? As part of the government’s flagship strategy, teachers will be able to send children as young as 11 on behavioural courses if they are witnessing disturbing or worrying behaviour. The courses will include teachings on deepfakes, image-based abuse and online harassment. ...

The UK government’s long-awaited strategy to tackle violence against women and girls has been published today. Alexandra Topping joins Lucy Hough to explain what it will change, amid concerns that ‘toxic ideas’ are going unchallenged in schools

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Comments from safeguarding minister come as violence against women and girls strategy due to launch

Schools have warned of growing misogyny from pupils towards teachers and a lack of avenues to seek help about concerns over sexually aggressive behaviour, the safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, has said.

Phillips’ comments came as the government was due to launch its long-awaited violence...

Patrick Lawler previously featured in a BBC undercover investigation into far-right views.

Keir Starmer, announcing new strategy, says ‘toxic ideas are taking hold early and going unchallenged’

Children as young as 11 who demonstrate misogynistic behaviour will be taught the difference between pornography and real relationships, as part of a multimillion-pound investment to tackle misogyny in England’s schools, the Guardian understands.

On the eve of the government publishing its...

In an era of rising nationalism, this move represents a brief flicker of hope for the internationalist ideal

‘I am a citizen of the world,” so the great Renaissance thinker Desiderius Erasmus is reputed to have said. It is because of his cosmopolitanism that 521 years after his birth, the EU named its exchange programme for students after him. It was part of a project aiming to create...

The UK’s membership explained as it prepares to rejoin the EU education and training programme it left after Brexit

The UK is to rejoin Erasmus, the European Union’s education and training scheme, five years after the country pulled out following Brexit. The move will allow UK institutions to tap into Erasmus’s wide network of training, educational and cultural opportunities, with the UK...

The UK left in December 2020 as part of the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU negotiated by Boris Johnson.