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Checkpoints backed by education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, follow complaints from teachers of children arriving in nappies
Toilet training and the ability to use cutlery are two key checkpoints in a new list of “school-readiness” skills developed by a coalition of early-years educators and endorsed by Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary.
The group said the guidance was the first of...
The administration’s warning came just after it pulled hundreds of millions of dollars from Columbia University.
Immigration officers arrested a Columbia University graduate for helping lead campus protests against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. President Trump said the case was “the first arrest of many to come.”
Government’s lead on academic freedom cautions of significant danger to integrity if expression is restricted
Universities in England should rearrange classrooms and use the Chatham House rule to help students overcome their fears of discussing controversial topics, according to the government’s lead on free speech.
Arif Ahmed, the Office for Students’ director of freedom of speech and...
The hiring pause at one of the nation’s wealthiest schools comes after other schools have also announced efforts to save money.
Mahmoud Khalil is a permanent resident of the United States. His arrest sets up a fight over free speech and immigrant rights.
The billionaire and now Trump adviser grew up amid the collapse of white rule, attending an all-white school and then a more liberal one
With an imposing double-winged redbrick main building, and school songs lifted directly from Harrow’s songbook, Pretoria boys high school is every inch the South African mirror of the English private schools it was founded in 1901 to imitate.
Elon Musk, who...
Young people who were in school and college in 2020 on how the pandemic impacted their use of social media and their relationship with news.
International research finds the gender gap in Year 9 maths in England is wider than any other participating country.
Analysis of post-Covid performance overturns recent claims that boys are falling behind girls at school
Boys in England have opened a wide gap over girls in maths and science, based on analysis by researchers using an authoritative international assessment, overturning recent claims that boys are falling behind girls at school.
Researchers at University College London (UCL) found that boys in...
The official and unofficial languages of the White House, decoded.
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,...