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Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy
Predictions that adding VAT to private school fees would set off a wave of parents moving children to the state sector have been proved wrong at their first key test, according to figures from councils in England.
While critics including the former chancellor Jeremy Hunt had predicted...
More than one quarter of the staff members at the only two federally run colleges for Native students were cut in February.
Professor and former education minister says plan to cut 400 jobs has created a “climate of fear”.
Exclusive: Costs particularly acute in more rural areas, where many children with special needs have to use taxis
Councils in England are spending on average twice as much on school transport for children with special educational needs than on maintaining their road networks, a Guardian investigation has found.
Many councils have said their obligations under the wider special educational needs...
Idit Arad calls for better protection for music students as London college admits failing in its duty of care to her
It should have been the start of a great career in classical music for Idit Arad. Everything was lining up for the talented 18-year-old opera singer. She had arrived in London from Israel in 1987, the proud winner of a sought-after scholarship to train at the Guildhall School of...
The case invites further fragmentation of public education.
The administration has circulated a list that includes nine other campuses, accusing them of failure to address antisemitism.
Life expectancy, homelessness and young people’s mental health were among the areas where Britain performed poorly despite spending more than other countries
Britain performed worse than most other developed nations in its response to the Covid pandemic, according to an Observer analysis of international data, five years on from the first lockdown.
The UK spent more money than most other...
Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington for Stand Up for Science, a rally in response to President Trump’s federal-funding and job cuts.
Despite winning a landmark legal battle, academic Alice Jolly believes it won’t benefit others
An academic who won a landmark court battle last year against Oxford University for employing her and her colleague on “sham” gig economy contracts has criticised the university for trying to brush their case under the carpet.
Alice Jolly and her colleague Rebecca Abrams, both award-winning authors,...
President’s slashes to higher education institutions and research funding threaten US public health, workers say
Students, researchers, faculty and leadership at universities and colleges across the US are grappling with drastic short- and long-term impacts “for decades to come” caused by funding freezes, cuts and executive orders from the Trump administration.
“It’s sowing a lot of chaos...
The president signed an order that would deny loan forgiveness to workers for groups engaged in “substantial illegal activities,” which it indicated included things like diversity initiatives.
Investigators say that Caleb Wilson, 20, a student at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., collapsed after being hit with boxing gloves as part of a pledging ritual for Omega Psi Phi.
The Trump administration stopped State Department funding for scholarships like the Fulbright. Weeks later, it is still unclear when it may resume.
Government alleges university failed to protect Jewish students amid pro-Palestinian protests on campus
The Donald Trump administration announced on Friday that it had canceled $400m in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University in New York because of what it alleges as the college’s repeated failure to protect students from antisemitic harassment.
The announcement comes after Columbia...
The MP behind the bill says proposals have been altered in a bid to gain government support.
MP for Bolton West says whistleblowers have sent allegations detailing the ‘systematic misuse of public funds’
Police are investigating “serious allegations” at the University of Greater Manchester, including financial misconduct, racism and bullying, MPs have been told.
Lucy Powell, the leader of the House of Commons, confirmed that the police have joined the Office for Students, the higher...
President Trump’s fixation reinvigorated the debate over the role of the federal government in education, and created a powerful point of unity between the factions of his party.
School and nursery staff in the poorest areas will be asked to help young children brush their teeth
Immigration status is denying children equal access to early years education and pushing families ‘deeper into poverty’
Tens of thousands of children in migrant and refugee families in the UK are being denied access to government-funded childcare because of benefit restrictions linked to their parents’ immigration status, a report says.
Having “no recourse to public funds” (NRPF) means...
As a civil rights lawyer who faced resistance and threats, he challenged school districts that tried to defy the Supreme Court’s 1954 ban on school segregation.