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Home Office will use mapping technology and crime data to identify up to 250 schools in areas of greatest risk
Schools across England are to receive dedicated support to prevent knife crime incidents in a hyper-targeted Home Office programme that uses mapping technology to identify areas of risk down to the level of specific groups of streets.
Under the £1.2m scheme – part of a series of...
The Education Department said there was no precedent for the federal government terminating settlements stemming from civil rights investigations into schools.
Philanthropy increases the gap dividing highly selective, elite higher education from the rest. Ministers need a plan for the sector overall
About 2% of UK universities’ income came from donations and endowments in 2024-25 – slightly less than the previous year. At a time when charitable giving overall is down, the announcement last week of a record £190m donation to the University of...
Government officials and anti-government activists alike denounced the attacks on the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, the latest Iranian center for higher education to be targeted.
[Nyasa Times] A bitter and fast-escalating internal revolt has erupted within the Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM), exposing deep fractures, simmering anger, and explosive allegations of financial mismanagement that now threaten to tear the union apart from within.
The former pupil was awarded £18,900 in 2024 but that was reduced after an appeal by the school.
We’re supposed to give students a map. I don’t even know the terrain.
It can be tricky to look nice without stealing the spotlight. Our critic has some tips on dressing as smart as the graduate.
The Trump administration’s campaign to curtail international students is not just hitting the elite schools targeted by the government.
The Royal College of Paramedics said it expected to see similar recruitment freezes across the UK.
[ENA] Addis Ababa — Leaders of Ethiopia’s major civil society organizations (CSOs) have reaffirmed their commitment to supporting a peaceful, fair, and democratic process in the country’s upcoming 7th general election, scheduled for June 1, 2026.
Zhang Xuefeng helped people navigate the country’s unforgiving higher education system. The public outpouring after his death was a quiet rebuke to the punishing process.
The White House’s attacks on academia and budget cuts for research have provided an opening for other countries to poach leading scientists.
The Trump administration had said it would collect data from colleges to ensure compliance with a Supreme Court ruling ending affirmative action in admissions.
We don’t have to travel to the moon to gain some of the insight that astronauts do.
NASUWT’s leader said there is a “ticking time bomb” if male pupils cannot be helped with misogyny.
A record number of student loan borrowers are in delinquency and default. Some are making the drastic decision to leave the country and abandon their loans.
Reports on English policies seen in Wales as relating to whole of UK contribute to widespread confusion, researchers say
UK media is failing to report properly on devolved issues in Wales, leaving voters ill-informed about May’s Senedd elections, a report has found.
A Cardiff University study of more than 3,000 news items found repeated patterns in coverage across different broadcasters and...
Misogynistic abuse of female staff is increasing, leaving teachers feeling ‘traumatised’ and ‘humiliated’
Teachers’ leaders have said a “masculinity crisis” is fermenting in schools across the UK, with misogynistic abuse of female staff on the increase, leaving victims “traumatised”, “demeaned” and “humiliated”.
Almost a quarter of female teachers who took part in a union survey said they have...
A 43-year-old man was accused of abusing “multiple” children over a period of 11 years in South Jersey, and prosecutors fear there could be more victims, given his employment.
[New Times] As the official registration campaign for the digital national ID in Kigali concluded on April 2, the National Identification Agency (NIDA) designated special registration sites to cater for schoolchildren currently on holiday.