Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
Some Democrats and supporters of the National Endowment for the Humanities are questioning what they see as gutted procedures and a tilt toward handpicked projects.
MONDAY, 24 NOVEMBER 2025, 09:40
Some Democrats and supporters of the National Endowment for the Humanities are questioning what they see as gutted procedures and a tilt toward handpicked projects.

Duncan Ivison, president of Manchester University, says government’s 6% surcharge plan will ‘hurt the sector’
A levy on tuition fees paid by international students is “wrong”, will “hurt the sector” and is “not in the long-term interests” of the UK, according to the vice-chancellor of one of the country’s leading universities.
Duncan Ivison, who took over as president and vice-chancellor of the...

Nathan Wyatt’s experience led to a new law giving students more time to find somewhere to live.
An extraordinary rebuke to the federal government’s campaign against elite schools, the ruling could upend settlement talks with the university system.
The student, the president of the school’s College Republicans club, said he reported immigrant carwash workers. Now he is facing online attacks after nine of the workers were detained.
In an extraordinary 12-page letter, James E. Ryan described the pressure campaign leading to his resignation as akin to a “hostage situation.”

A temporary classroom site is being created nearby to allow Denbigh primary to close for six months.

Councils say 59 authorities could go bankrupt by March 2028 without urgent structural reform
Special educational needs services in England face “total collapse”, with councils on course to have run up debts of £18bn by the end of the decade as a result of increasing numbers of children requiring extra teaching support in schools.
Without urgent structural reform of the system, the cost of...

Ofsted is investigating whether Remedicare Education failed to register as a school.

Julie Broadbent is praised for her “unique ability to connect with pupils”.
As many elite colleges struggle to adapt to the technology, the nation’s most prestigious universities said dozens of students used artificial intelligence tools to cheat.

Minister rejects claims Māori history is being sidelined in rewrite which includes cutting some references to the Treaty of Waitangi
As cows grazed sleepily in a nearby paddock, then-14-year-old Leah Bell watched as a local Māori elder cried.
She was standing at the site of the massacre at Rangiaowhia, where Māori were deliberately burnt to death by the British crown in 1864. The site was just...

The government is facing political pressure as it tries to reform the “broken” system of support for children with special educational needs.
The university system will ban advocacy of “race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity” without approval.
The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the “Make America Great Again” slogan as an example of white supremacy.
Government employees were expecting to see paychecks again as early as Nov. 20 after six weeks in limbo.

The blaze in May 2023 at Yatton Infants School, in Somerset, destroyed half of the roof.

Union members plan to walk out later this month over plans to cut 400 roles at Lancaster University.
Austin Becker developed an early warning system to protect critical infrastructure from storms. His project’s funding was eliminated in April.

More inclusive institutions under pressure as some take on six times as many children requiring extra support
Schools in England are steering away children with special needs, leading some to have six times as many pupils requiring learning or behaviour support compared with others, according to research.
Local authority leaders told the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) they...
Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, told the university’s board that the choice of a new president, to replace one pushed out by Republicans over the summer, should be delayed until she is in office.