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Coldplay, Harry Styles and Stormzy also join the Suffolk songwriter in campaigning for music funding in schools
Elton John, Coldplay, Harry Styles, Stormzy and Central Cee are among the artists backing a call from Ed Sheeran for Keir Starmer to commit £250m of funding for music education.
As part of his newly launched Ed Sheeran Foundation, the Suffolk songwriter is campaigning for music...
A Lincolnshire mother says the council is paying thousands to take her daughter to a state school.
The coach of the women’s varsity team in Northville, N.Y., was caught yanking a player’s hair on a television broadcast of a championship game on Friday.
Institutions must resist thuggish bullying. There is no satisfying Trump. He will move the goalposts again and again
Since early 2024, I’ve been running a journalism ethics center at Columbia University.
So perhaps it’s no surprise that I see the university’s capitulation to Trump both in terms of journalism and ethics.
Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and...
The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.
A quarter-century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.
Large-scale analysis of UK police and education records reveals link between expulsion and violence within year
Teenagers who are permanently excluded from school are twice as likely to commit serious violence within a year of their expulsion than those who were merely suspended, a large-scale new analysis of police and education records has shown.
London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU), set...
Experiences of harassment, groping, inappropriate touching and forced penetration anonymously reported
Warning: contains content some readers may find distressing
Children and adults have anonymously reported testimonies of sexual abuse and harassment at 1,664 primary schools in the UK through a website for survivor stories, which has called for age-appropriate sex education to be taught to...
The student, who is from Gambia and was involved in pro-Palestinian activism on campus, was told to report to the immigration agency’s offices.
President Trump said Friday that he was tasking other government entities with core functions of the Education Department as he works to dismantle an agency conservatives have long criticized.
Campaigners have been calling for the qualification for years but plan stalled despite a curriculum being drawn up
Teenagers may be able to learn about the importance of newts, bats and jumping spiders after the government announced the introduction of a GCSE in natural history.
The qualification had been campaigned for by nature lovers for more than a decade, but despite a curriculum being...
Exclusive: actor says experience of school refusal showed her more compassion is needed, not exclusions
‘They will consider prosecuting me’: parents on why their children are missing school – and the consequences
The actor Anna Maxwell Martin, best known for TV shows including Motherland, Line of Duty and Ludwig, has called for more compassion for families struggling with school refusal, and a...
Many say absence is due to England’s mainstream schools being unable to meet needs of neurodivergent pupils
• Anna Maxwell Martin calls for end to ‘cruel, idiotic’ fines for school absence
• Record 170,000 children missed at least half of classes in 2024
The latest figures from the Department for Education suggest school absence is at a record high in England, with more than 170,000 children...
[Namibian] President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah pledged to continue pushing for economic independence, better healthcare, housing and education after being sworn in as the fifth president on Friday.
Executive order denounced as unconstitutional. Plus, Musk’s daughter says his gesture ‘definitely Nazi salute’
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Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that instructs the US education secretary, Linda McMahon, to start dismantling the Department of Education, seemingly attempting to circumvent Congress’s approval to formally close a federal department.
How has the...
Claire Aubin’s podcast This Guy Sucked explores the viler actions of ‘great men’ for a more holistic view of history
When the historian Claire Aubin gets together with her colleagues for drinks after a conference or academic meetup, the conversation always ends up one way. “We’re all sitting around a table, talking about our most hated historical figure,” she said. For Aubin, it’s Henry...
[Liberian Observer] In a momentous academic milestone, William Q. Harmon, Senior Editor of the Daily Observer newspaper, has graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication from the United Methodist University (UMU). His achievement was celebrated during UMU’s 20th commencement convocation, which honored over seventy graduates across various disciplines.
[Liberian Investigator] Monrovia — The President of the Monrovia Consolidated School System Teachers Association (MCSSTA), Augustine N. Nyormui, has announced an indefinite go-slow action until the government adequately addresses their concerns.
[UCT] The Rhodes Must Fall (RMF) movement, which was sparked at the University of Cape Town (UCT) on March 9 2015 and gained traction through the #RMF hashtag on social media, is one of the student-led societal uprisings that can rightfully claim to have reignited decolonial discourse and scholarship in the African continent and beyond.
[Liberian Observer] Augustus J. Flomo, former Deputy Minister for Economic Management at the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, has challenged young people in Liberia to adopt innovative thinking and seize local opportunities to drive economic growth.
[Nile Post] In a dramatic turn of events, officials from the Ministry of Education and Sports were dismissed from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament for appearing disorganized in their submissions.