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Senior academics describe the Judge business school’s proposal to provide services and training as ‘horrifying’
Cambridge University’s business school is seeking to provide “leadership development” and “innovation management” to Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry despite concerns over its government’s record on human rights and climate change, the Guardian has learned.
Cambridge’s leadership...
We have created the most stifling and sanitised imaginative space conceivable for children, says teacher Brendan James Murray. Today true imagination has become a radical act
The six children sit together at the waterline in roaring wind. Seagulls dip and strain, beating their wings against the gusts as, far below, waves crest, thump, whisper. A girl, scarcely three years old, stands suddenly...
The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words
I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since 2017. Many of my students last wrote fiction in middle school, and very few have experienced a proper workshop, so at the start of every semester I offer these directions for writer and reader...
Readers discuss artificial intelligence and writing in the classroom. Also: President Trump’s latest assault on science; election workers.
A gunman’s attack at the April dinner has spurred more debate than usual about one of Washington’s most dissected rituals.
A new tool on the university’s website tells you what the first year “will” cost if you get in.
The National Education Union says it will hold a formal ballot this autumn without “urgent action”.
At the city’s Great Exhibition of 1904, 57 Somali men, women and children cooked, weaved and danced for visitors
It was, the posters said, a rare chance to see a “little known but interesting people”: a live display of 57 Somali men, women and children who cooked, weaved and danced for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of Edwardians who flocked to Yorkshire to see them.
More than 120...
Harvard’s boxing club is drawing new members. So are boxing clubs at other colleges, as students look for real-life connection.
A key judicial decision in Mr. Khalil’s immigration case was expedited significantly and included the recusal of multiple judges.
Pictures and striking scenes from the making of perhaps the world’s most celebrated naturalist.
Harassment reported by 35% of students at ‘high tariff’ institutions compared with 17% at those with lowest entry grades
Students at England’s leading universities were more than twice as likely to experience sexual harassment than those at “lower tariff” institutions, according to analysis.
Data from a national survey of undergraduates shows that 35% of students at “high tariff”...
Kirsten Beyer was assessing the benefits of improving school playgrounds in Milwaukee. Then her E.P.A. grant was canceled.
[FrontPageAfrica] Suakoko — The Cuttington University Alumni Association in the Americas on Thursday broke ground for the construction of the Agape Clinic at Cuttington University’s main campus in Suakoko, marking what officials described as a significant step toward strengthening healthcare delivery for students and surrounding communities.
With fewer students, many school districts are confronting unfilled classrooms, and hard choices about school closures.
A hacking group that claimed responsibility for attacking Canvas’s parent company said it had gained access to data from more than 275 million people across 9,000 schools.
The university’s leader bumped into students as he drove away following an evening of debate over the long-running conflict in the Middle East.
A lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Humanities drew wide attention for revealing how DOGE had used ChatGPT to cancel grants.
Academic museums at Princeton, Yale, Cornell and Skidmore have organized several standout exhibitions, worth a venture beyond TEFAF New York.
The Ultimate Picture Palace opened in 1911 and is housed in a Grade II-listed building which is in need of renovation
The survival of one of the UK’s oldest independent cinemas is under threat while its landlord, Oxford University’s Oriel College, refuses to extend its lease to allow vital renovations.
The Ultimate Picture Palace in east Oxford opened in 1911, and has entertained generations of...
Athlete and sport bodies call for rethink after health and education departments each propose £60m funding cuts
Mo Farah and more than 70 leading UK sporting bodies have demanded the government rethink potential £120m cuts to school sports in England, after a clash between two departments over the funding.
The Guardian reported earlier this year that the Department of Health and Social Care had...