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Education

‘Just not monetizable’: humanities programs face existential crisis at US universities

20 January at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

Fears over the future of humanities spread amid layoffs and restructurings at scores of public and private universities

Last month, students at Montclair State University in New Jersey held a mock funeral outside the university’s college of humanities and social sciences building. Carrying bouquets of flowers, they stood by a tombstone inscribed with the names of the school’s 15...

New City & Guilds owners tripled bosses’ pay amid £22m cost-cutting drive

20 January at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Total pay of the qualification body’s top six executives has risen by 240% to £6.2m since charity sold it

The new owners of the vocational training body City & Guilds appear to have more than tripled the pay of its top six executives right at the moment the company is cutting £22m of costs and shrinking its UK workforce.

The large increases to salary and bonuses have emerged during a scandal...

UK ministers scrap foreign students target in shift to overseas hubs strategy

20 January at 02:01 AM, via The Guardian

Government replaces recruitment goal with plan to increase ‘education exports’ to £40bn a year by 2030

Ministers are scrapping target numbers for international students in the UK and will instead focus on encouraging universities to open hubs abroad, as part of a plan to bring British education to people “on their own doorsteps”.

The government’s new international education strategy will set...

Robert Jenrick boasts that Reform is for the workers, but it’s a class war trap – and Labour shouldn’t fall for it

19 January at 19:17 PM, via The Guardian

Though Labour’s voters are more likely to be the educated middle-classes, its focus must be fighting inequality. We know Farage’s party will only enrich the wealthy

Class politics is back, as if it ever went away. Robert Jenrick declares that Tories are toffs and “the divide in British politics has become Reform’s workers party versus the Tory posh party”. He says the Tories are so “out...

At nine, I disappeared into home schooling. No one came looking

19 January at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Mom insisted I needed a ‘free-form education’ outside public school. After four years of loneliness, I gave up hope that someone would get me out

“Every mother in the world wishes her kid wouldn’t grow up so fast.”

Mom laughs as she holds me close.

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‘Disgustingly educated’: will this trend make you cleverer?

19 January at 15:56 PM, via The Guardian

Social media is filling up with influencers telling us how to become much more intellectual. A great, enriching idea – or just another cue to show off?

Name: Disgustingly educated.

Age: About 18 months.

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Judge to protect noncitizen academics testifying in case from ‘authoritarian’ Trump

16 January at 16:47 PM, via The Guardian

William Young to issue order to protect those who challenge arrest and deportation of pro-Palestinian activists

A federal judge described Donald Trump as an authoritarian and accused his administration of “an unconstitutional conspiracy to pick off certain people” in its aggressive pursuit of non-US citizen, pro-Palestinian activists on American college campuses.

The judge in Boston, who was...

Top two executives at City & Guilds placed on leave

16 January at 12:46 PM, via The Guardian

Pair will be absent ‘for short period’ from vocational trainer, whose charity is under investigation by Charity Commission

The two most senior executives at City & Guilds have been put on leave shortly after a scandal over millions of pounds of bonuses triggered a Charity Commission investigation into the vocational training body.

City & Guilds has told staff that its chief executive, Kirstie...

BP accused of ‘insidious’ influence on UK education through Science Museum links

16 January at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Campaigners claim firm has bought sway over the teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths

Campaigners have accused BP of having an insidious influence over the teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) in the UK through its relationship with the Science Museum.

Documents obtained under freedom of information legislation show how the company funded a research...

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