Indiana University leads the push for a pact among 18 institutions as Donald Trump targets diversity

Faculty members from US universities – including public ones which do not receive endowments – are banding together in attempts to resist the Donald Trump administration’s attacks on academic freedoms.

This month, Indiana University’s Bloomington faculty council followed in the footsteps of...

University is first in nation to rebuff onerous demands, including federal oversight of students and departments

Donald Trump has declared that Harvard University should no longer receive federal funds, calling the pre-eminent university in the US a “joke” that “teaches hate and stupidity”.

Harvard made headlines on Monday by becoming the first university to stand up against a series of onerous...

Parents can do inskolning as part of their 480 days of paid leave per child – as an American, this was a foreign concept

About a month ago, I sat on a tiny wooden chair, hand-embroidering a thick cotton pillowcase in dim candlelight. Eight Swedish children softly sang a good morning song over tiny cups of peach-colored herbal tea.

This is not a tale of a tradwife textile artist living off the...

UK schools are coming under pressure to remove titles from their shelves. It’s not coming from the place you might think

For all its talk of free speech, the Trump administration seems remarkably comfortable with censorship. Earlier this year, children studying at Pentagon schools (serving US military families) were prevented from accessing libraries for a week while officials reviewed their...

Justice department lawsuit escalates a battle over Title IX as Maine vows to fight federal funding cuts in court

The Trump administration sued Maine on Wednesday for allowing transgender girls to compete in school sports, dramatically escalating a confrontation that has already seen threats to cut the state’s education and school lunch funding.

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the lawsuit...

Xiaofeng Wang was fired by Indiana University on same day as raid – and Asian students fear political motivation

When FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents descended recently on two homes owned by Xiaofeng Wang, a Chinese national and cybersecurity professor at Indiana University, many in the idyllic college town of Bloomington were shocked.

In December, Wang had been questioned...

Mariyah Ali and Antonia Listrat were part of a pro-Palestinian demonstration at the University of Birmingham.

Some London primary schools are struggling for pupil numbers and may be closed by their council.

Parents in England, Wales and Scotland are being told which primary school their children will be going to.

It may be a turning point in the White House’s attempt to gut allegedly liberal universities and punish law firms

It might come to be seen as the moment the “woke liberal empire” of Donald Trump’s most fevered imaginings struck back.

Harvard University, the world-renowned institution emblematic of the elitism that Trump and his coterie hold in contempt, received a extortive demand from the...

Data shows England’s 200 leading independent schools devote fraction of fee income to supporting poorer pupils

England’s wealthiest private schools devote only a small fraction of their income towards means-tested bursaries, according to research that undermines claims that adding VAT to school fees would decimate support for poorer pupils.

The Private Education Policy Forum (PEPF), a thinktank...

National Education Union members call for funds to be used to help campaign against Reform UK candidates.

National Education Union calls Reform UK ‘far-right and racist’ as it pledges funds to opposite Reform in elections

The UK’s largest teaching union has called Reform UK “far-right and racist”, and its leader has dismissed Nigel Farage as “a poundshop Donald Trump,” as the union pledged funds to oppose the party’s candidates in elections.

Delegates to the National Education Union’s annual...

The amount of funding families can access to pay for therapy for adopted children has been cut by 40%.

The Blavatnik School of Government is closed for almost a week to fix damage caused by the bird.

Teachers in England will vote on whether or not to strike if the government stands by its pay offer.

A panel hears a teacher showed a Sinbad film where an actor had blackface make-up to Year 6 pupils.

Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, first at Chornobyl and now in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan – formerly the Soviet Union’s primary nuclear weapons testing site. He teaches schoolchildren about how bombs were tested, and how – more than 30 years after the site was decommissioned – the community is only beginning to...

The action is being taken over redundancies, which the university says comes at an extremely challenging time for the sector.

Kirsti Nicole Hadley says parents face huge amounts of unpaid work due to systemic issues.

Universities, a key plank of our economy, face a bonfire of jobs. But are they the jobs Starmer wants to be seen to be saving?

It’s hard to get romantic about the death of office jobs.

Nobody waxes lyrical about the glory days of working in payroll, and Bruce Springsteen doesn’t fill stadiums with soaring anthems about middle management headcount. But whether the recipient’s collar is white...