State department proposes excluding 38 institutions from Diplomacy Lab partnership including Harvard and Yale

More than three dozen universities including Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Duke have their participation in a federal research partnership on the chopping block after the state department proposed to suspend them over their diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practices.

Last week, the...

The University of Nottingham has suspended entry for new students on modern language courses.

Tens of thousands of children in the region are set to be eligible for the scheme, the government says.

Bishop’s Cleeve Primary Academy says it is applying for funding to replace its heating system.

Attendance rates remain significantly lower than in 2019, but one school is bucking the trend.

West Midlands police’s assistant chief constable says threat of violence by Maccabi fans was more important consideration

Badenoch says the government should be cutting regulation.

And she claims she can do this because, when she was business secretary, she was able to cut regulation. As an example, she says she ruled about mandatory ethnicity pay reporting.

Fewer and fewer people are working...

A local authority is expanding a programme to help SEND children to be taught in state schools.

University leaders says planned levy on international student fees will leave many institutions even worse off

University students in England get just two-thirds of the funding they would have received a decade ago, after inflation and government cuts have reduced the resources available for teaching, according to vice-chancellors.

University leaders said the situation was likely to get worse...

Exclusive: Jason Clare says new powers will ensure information is ‘accurate, comprehensive and representative’ to help government deliver ‘evidence-based reforms’

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Labor is quietly advancing plans for universal childcare in Australia, with new laws to require private operators to hand over sensitive commercial data needed to design a...

The bespoke agreements are full of peril for the universities, allowing the federal government to quietly exert control

In October, President Trump proposed a compact for higher education, a federal takeover of state and private institutions thinly disguised as an offer of preferential funding consideration. Most of the initially targeted universities rightfully have rejected Trump’s unlawful...

Held back by Covid and then phased out by AI, Britain’s so-called Neets are desperately seeking a secure future. Who will offer them hope?

Another week, another set of sobering economic numbers. Last Thursday, the Office for National Statistics published its latest quarterly estimate of the number of 16- to 24-year-olds who are so-called Neets – people not in education, employment or...

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...