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Education

‘Go inside, he will kill you’: Israeli militants step up West Bank school attacks

02 May at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Education is being targeted across Palestine, with the murder of 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan only the latest in a spree of violence

The Israeli reservist shot 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan in the head just outside the western gate of the Mughayyir boys’ secondary school, where he was studying in ninth grade.

Aws collapsed instantly, bleeding heavily. More shots rang out as his friends ran to his...

What Is Higher Education For?

02 May at 13:00 PM, via New York Times

Readers respond to Bret Stephens’s column about the recent Yale report on reforming academia.

Ofsted inspections pushing headteachers to ‘point of destruction’, union chief says

01 May at 18:32 PM, via The Guardian

NAHT leader says schools watchdog for England does not raise standards, amid opposition to ‘Nando’s-style’ scoring

School leaders are being pressurised “to the point of destruction”, the head of a teaching union has said, as he put the education establishment “on notice”.

During a speech to the union’s annual conference in Belfast, Paul Whiteman, the general secretary of the National...

‘It ruined my night’: photographers accused of targeting women at St Andrews May Dip

01 May at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

Students taking part in university’s annual ritual say images of them in swimwear are being published without consent in national newspapers

When the sun rises at dawn on Friday, hundreds of St Andrews University students will brave the chilly North Sea for the annual May Dip, an undergraduate ritual said to bring good luck in exams. But the students won’t be alone at the beach. In recent...

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

30 April at 11:00 AM, via New York Times

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence.

I took an algorithm to court in Sweden. The algorithm won | Charlotta Kronblad

30 April at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives

We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly. That when something goes wrong in the public system, alarms go off and someone takes responsibility or is held accountable if they do not. But in 2020 in Gothenburg, injustice arrived quietly,...

Office for Students’ University of Sussex humiliation is a symptom of deeper failings

29 April at 20:01 PM, via The Guardian

England’s higher education regulator must rebuild trust with troubled sector after series of blunders under previous leadership

In its brief and unhappy life, England’s Office for Students has been offered a series of challenges it has largely failed to meet. This week the latest and most embarrassing of those was unveiled, when the high court decisively rejected the higher education...

Oxford’s new £185m humanities hub is polished, refined … and funded by a Trump ally

29 April at 17:46 PM, via The Guardian

Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman’s portrait hangs discretely in a building that promises cultural clout and architectural poise – yet can seem rather bland and bloodless

When the wealthy Paduan banker Enrico Scrovegni commissioned the building of his eponymous chapel in the 14th century, he made sure that he was immortalised in the lavish frescoes adorning its interior. Florentine artist Giotto...

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