I took a month of unpaid leave to look after my daughter for the summer holiday – here’s why
Like many parents, Natalie and her husband had to combine organised childcare and annual leave to cope with the six-week break.
Education
States Rush to Fill Graduate Loan Gap Opened by G.O.P. Budget Bill
Minnesota and Connecticut are two of the states expanding their loan options. “We see it as a substitute program,” one official said.
Why Is This Billionaire’s Name All Over Harvard’s Campus?
Investigating the relationship between Leslie Wexner, Jeffrey Epstein and Harvard University.
Why Trump Can’t Leave the Smithsonian Alone
The Trump White House and its history police want us all to live in their chosen bubble, immune from instability or perceived disorder.
‘I’m sorry but I’m unable to speak’: hero of India’s Cockroach party weakens on 19th day of hunger strike
The climate activist and engineer Sonam Wangchuk, who has become the figurehead of anti-government protests in Delhi, is resisting calls to end his fast until the education minister resigns
As night falls on day 18 of his hunger strike, the lack of any sustenance except water shows. It is 7pm and Sonam Wangchuk looks weak. A physiotherapist sits beside him on the stage massaging his arms to...
National Year of Reading should extend to a decade, inquiry says
The education committee also proposed a National Reading Guarantee, ensuring all children have frequent opportunities to enjoy reading
The National Year of Reading should be extended to a National Decade of Reading, an education committee inquiry into reading for pleasure has concluded.
The government should also commit to a National Reading Guarantee that would ensure all children have regular...
Is This What a Post-Literate Era Looks Like?
It’s not the children who stopped reading. It’s their grandparents.
A Test Isn’t Racist. Assumptions About Black Kids Can Be.
All students can be properly prepared to take this challenging admissions exam.
Private schools offer 41% more tree shade than state schools in England
Analysis reveals stark socioeconomic divide, with schools with highest free school meal eligibility having fewer trees
Private school grounds in England offer 41% more tree cover than state schools for cooling and shade in extreme temperatures, research has found.
As teachers and students prepare to take their summer holidays after weeks of high temperatures where some classrooms reached highs...
The federal government isn’t America’s only authoritarian institution | Jan-Werner Müller
Backlash at Yale to its negotiations with Trump shine a light on the danger of smaller authoritarian structures in civil society
As news started to spread of Yale’s leadership negotiating a deal with the Trump administration, the university’s faculty, students and alumni sprang into action to oppose any settlement. What the president and lawyers intend remains unclear. In the case of...
Florence Welch’s mother says cuts to arts and humanities ‘absolutely tragic’
Exclusive: Prof Evelyn Welch, vice-chancellor of Bristol University, believes her daughter’s success shows value of arts education
One of Britain’s leading university vice-chancellors has described sweeping cuts to arts and humanities across the sector as “absolutely tragic”, citing her famous daughter as an example of the value of a creative arts education.
Prof Evelyn Welch, the...
Students and recent graduates: tell us your best and worst experiences of uni societies
We would like to hear about the highs and lows of university clubs and societies
As a new academic year approaches, we would like to hear from students and recent graduates (five years ago or less) about their experiences of university clubs and societies that freshers might find instructive.
What was your best experience of a university club or society? And what was your worst?
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Should Epstein’s Friends Be Punished? An Elite Harvard Club Is Torn.
At Harvard, students, alumni and professors debate whether a storied campus group should cut ties with one of Jeffrey Epstein’s closest associates, and whether Harvard itself should do the same.
An Elite N.Y.C. Public School Admitted 777 Students. Only 3 Were Black.
New York’s specialized high schools give disproportionately few seats to Black and Hispanic students, continuing a pattern that has drawn criticism.
Pilot scheme in England to convert empty classrooms into community hubs
Policy to create youth clubs and health centres aims to tackle surplus of school spaces created by falling pupil numbers
Classrooms left empty by falling numbers of pupils could soon be converted into youth clubs or health centres, as part of a pilot scheme to be announced this week.
In the pilot a group of local authorities in England will be given £3.1m by the Department for Education to...
Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities
Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year
Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned.
Universities’ finances are so precarious that redundancies are also occurring in business...
Free school meal pupils falling further behind their peers, report warns
The Education Policy Institute says the new prime minister should target the issue with “laser-like focus”.
How a Teacher Revived Backyard Baseball
Backyard Baseball, a favorite game for 1990s kids, had been off the market for years. But Lindsay Barnett was determined.
I Teach at an Elite College and I Inflate Grades. Help Me.
Easy A’s are an easy out.
“The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” Isn’t Saying What You Think It Is
In the same year as America’s founding, Edward Gibbon wrote “Decline and Fall.” 250 years later, it still holds lessons for us.