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The countries that invest in youth now will be the ones that define global innovation in the coming years
Monica Geingos is founder of Leadership Lab Yetu and former first lady of Namibia
For the first time in our history, more than 70% of Africans are under the age of 30. This, along with entrenched inequalities, poverty, unemployment and socioeconomic fault lines, is reshaping how our...
An appellate court ruled that the firing of the former assistant principal of an elementary school in Mississippi in 2022 had been “arbitrary and capricious.”
Harvard University has been trying to cut back how many A grades professors give. Now, 53 percent of grades are A’s, down from 60 percent.
Winston Nguyen, a former teacher at Saint Ann’s School who pleaded guilty to a felony charge last year, is accused in the lawsuit of soliciting naked photos of students and sharing them online.
Changes to England’s school system say on-site suspensions should be used for non-violent behaviour.
Major powers have renewed diplomatic links while others seek deals to deport migrants. And all the while gender repression is getting worse
Afghanistan’s Taliban government has now issued its most extreme edict yet. It is already the only regime in the world where girls are excluded from secondary education. Now it has gone further, debarring all Afghan women from any contact with schools or...
New government data shows that fines for term-time holidays have risen again in the last academic year.
Ceredigion council said it was based on research linking excessive smartphone use to anxiety and depression.
Summer Boismier, a high school English teacher in Oklahoma, lost her teaching license after she protested a book ban. Now she is fighting to return to the classroom.
Policy intended to keep more children sanctioned for non-violent bad behaviour in school in ‘internal exclusion’ units
Suspending pupils from school will be reserved for the most serious cases of bad behaviour including violence, according to the latest government guidance to be issued to schools in England.
The Department for Education (DfE) is to announce a consultation on behaviour policy to...
Harvey, who is deafblind, struggled in mainstream nursery during wait for EHCP – and parents fear he could lose out again
Parents in England fear losing support for disabled children due to Send reforms
Harvey Hind has just turned five. He can count to a thousand. He can recite the alphabet – forwards and backwards – and he loves Play-Doh and cars.
The youngest of three children, Harvey is...
Survey by disability charity finds 45% of parents of children with complex needs ‘worried support will be taken away’
‘We’ve fought so hard’: family’s worry as England’s Send overhaul looms
Parents of disabled children fear that the government’s reforms to special needs education in England could mean they lose vital support, according to a new survey that highlights the high stakes facing...
More than 800 school staff have been on strike across 20 schools in the West Midlands.
The school was inspected after concerns were raised over its decision to postpone an MP’s visit.
Geography student Ethan Brown should have been awarded a 2:1 degree but was wrongly told he could not graduate.
Snap inspection of Brunel academy took place after it withdrew invitation to pro-Israel Labour MP Damien Egan
A snap inspection of a Bristol secondary school criticised for postponing a visit by an MP who is a member of a group that advocates for Israel has found “no evidence of partisan political views”.
Ofsted inspectors arrived at Bristol Brunel academy earlier this month after reports that...
Javed Love is understood to be the first teacher in Northern Ireland in at least a decade to take the action.
In today’s newsletter: Rising living costs, shrinking early years services and soaring screen use are reshaping what teachers encounter on the first day of school, with consequences felt across the system
Good morning. Teaching four- and five-year-olds has always involved patience, care and flexibility. What many reception teachers say they did not sign up for was spending large chunks of the...
Both the health and education departments have proposed cuts to funding for physical education
A major row between government departments has broken out after the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) proposed cutting all its funding for physical education in schools, the Guardian understands.
The DHSC is now intending to restore the funding despite insisting privately for weeks that it...
Mark Billings hopes to inspire his pupils, and even beat Giant in a new challenge on the BBC show.
Jacob Collier, speaking at the launch of BBC Get Singing, says music “embeds confidence” in young people.