Government delays university free-speech fines
22 HRS AGO - Powers for universities to be fined for failing to uphold freedom of speech have been put on hold.
How support eased my pain after my brother died
2 DAYS AGO - Nevaeh on how grief affected her, and how youth work helps her to help others.
Cancelled exams 'inspired MP to get into politics
2 DAYS AGO - Sam Carling, the new MP for North West Cambridgeshire, gives his maiden House of Commons speech.
Rock star Stevie Van Zandt in plea for more arts and music in English schools
3 DAYS AGO - Exclusive: E Street Band and Sopranos star visits south London to see his TeachRock programme in Expand
3 DAYS AGO - Exclusive: E Street Band and Sopranos star visits south London to see his TeachRock programme in actionLegendary guitarist and Sopranos star Stevie Van Zandt has made an impassioned plea for more arts and music in England’s schools as a way of engaging disaffected young people during a visit to south London.It was a last day of term like no other for pupils at Beckmead College – a school for students aged 14-19 with social, emotional and mental health needs – when the E Street Band member turned up, dressed like a rock star in purple velvet, winkle picker boots and trademark bandana. Continue reading... Collapse
Send us your old Ucas personal statements
3 DAYS AGO - To mark the end of the personal statement for university applications in Britain, we would like to Expand
3 DAYS AGO - To mark the end of the personal statement for university applications in Britain, we would like to see your old onesThe Ucas personal statement has long been a dreaded stage in the university application process for teenagers.But from next year, the 4,000 character statement will be replaced by a set of questions on why students want to study their chosen subject and how they are prepared. Continue reading... Collapse
English universities should not expect government bailout, Phillipson says
4 DAYS AGO - Education secretary acknowledged crisis in sector with many institutions facing severe financial Expand
4 DAYS AGO - Education secretary acknowledged crisis in sector with many institutions facing severe financial difficultiesUniversities in England facing severe financial difficulties should not expect a government bailout, the education secretary has said, despite warnings from the sector of thousands of job losses, course closures and even bankruptcies.With 40% of institutions projected to run budget deficits this year, Bridget Phillipson acknowledged the crisis. She said she was “determined to develop a brighter future for universities” and put them on a “sustainable footing in the long term”. Continue reading... Collapse
Better skills training will cut migration, vows PM
4 DAYS AGO - The prime minister says improving the UK skills base will end an "over-reliance" on foreign Expand
4 DAYS AGO - The prime minister says improving the UK skills base will end an "over-reliance" on foreign workers. Collapse
Can you solve it? Can you outwit the wizards of Oz?
5 DAYS AGO - Ripsnorting riddles from Down UnderUPDATE: Read the solutions here.Parabola, a wonderful Expand
5 DAYS AGO - Ripsnorting riddles from Down UnderUPDATE: Read the solutions here.Parabola, a wonderful Australian maths magazine for secondary school pupils, celebrates its 60th birthday this month. Today’s puzzles are taken from a recently published compilation of its best problems. Continue reading... Collapse
Reeves hints public sector workers could get above-inflation pay rises
5 DAYS AGO - Independent pay review bodies for teachers and NHS staff have reportedly advised increases of Expand
5 DAYS AGO - Independent pay review bodies for teachers and NHS staff have reportedly advised increases of about 5.5%Rachel Reeves has indicated that the government could agree above-inflation pay rises for teachers and other public sector workers, saying there is “a cost to not settling” pay negotiations.The chancellor, who did not dispute reports that independent pay review bodies for teachers and NHS staff had advised increases of about 5.5% – higher than the current 2% inflation rate – said she would set out full details later in July. Continue reading... Collapse
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Most children in Wales don't tell family about online life - report
1 DAY AGO - Concerns about sites and apps like Snapchat, YouTube and Roblox are highlighted in a survey.
£5bn debt crisis of special educational needs ‘could bankrupt’ English councils
2 DAYS AGO - Increased demand for children’s services leading to meltdown, warn local authority leadersA £5bn Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Increased demand for children’s services leading to meltdown, warn local authority leadersA £5bn debt crisis caused by out-of-control overspending on special educational needs could explode in less than two years, bankrupting scores of England’s local authorities, the UK government has been warned.The crisis stems from the failure to properly fund a huge increase in demand for Special Education Needs and Disability (Send) services over the past decade, triggering an “existential” crisis for councils which have “no obvious means of paying off the debt”. Continue reading... Collapse
Tackling misogyny in UK schools could take up to 20 years, says Jess Phillips
3 DAYS AGO - Exclusive: Safeguarding minister outlines measures to protect women and girls, including plans for Expand
3 DAYS AGO - Exclusive: Safeguarding minister outlines measures to protect women and girls, including plans for ‘Raneem’s law’Plans to tackle misogyny in schools could take up to 20 years to have an impact on society, the safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, has said as she outlined measures to protect women and girls.Phillips spoke the day after the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) estimated that 2 million women were victims of violence perpetrated by men each year in an epidemic so serious it amounts to a “national emergency”. Continue reading... Collapse
Ucas personal statements weren’t read by academics | Letter
3 DAYS AGO - A reader who was a university programme director responds to the news that personal statements are Expand
3 DAYS AGO - A reader who was a university programme director responds to the news that personal statements are to be scrappedRe your article (Farewell, Ucas personal statements: I won’t miss your hackneyed, cliche-ridden prose, 20 July), while I was the director of an interdisciplinary (combined honours) programme at a Russell Group university, the most common question I received at pre-application open days was: “How should I write my personal statement if I am applying for both single- and joint-honours programmes, and your programme?” It was clear that personal statements were the cause of great stress for applicants – and people advising potential applicants.But this was a question I was never able to answer, for the simple reason that no one in charge of running the programme ever saw any of these personal statements. Admissions had been centralised in my institution some years before, taking individual programme directors out of the loop. The only people who ever looked at those statements Collapse
Is this the end of branded school PE kits?
4 DAYS AGO - Schools will no longer require parents to buy more than three branded items, under government plans
Chinese university sacks professor after social media accusation of sexual harassment
4 DAYS AGO - Doctoral student at Renmin University of China school of liberal arts in Beijing posted recordings Expand
4 DAYS AGO - Doctoral student at Renmin University of China school of liberal arts in Beijing posted recordings on WeiboA top Chinese university has fired a professor, a day after a graduate student accused him of sexual harassment on social media in a rare public allegation and posted recordings as evidence, drawing widespread support.The woman, who identified herself as Wang Di, said she is studying in a doctoral programme at Renmin University of China’s school of liberal arts. She posted a 59-minute video on Sunday on the Weibo social media platform in which she said her supervisor, an ex-vice dean and former Communist party representative at the university in Beijing, physically and verbally abused her. Continue reading... Collapse
Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery
4 DAYS AGO - Rosemary Fowler discovered the kaon particle during her doctoral research in 1948 but gave up PhD Expand
4 DAYS AGO - Rosemary Fowler discovered the kaon particle during her doctoral research in 1948 but gave up PhD to have a familyA trailblazing physicist who gave up her PhD 75 years ago to have a family has received an honorary doctorate from her former university.Rosemary Fowler, 98, discovered the kaon particle during her doctoral research under Cecil Powell at the University of Bristol in 1948, which contributed to his Nobel prize for physics in 1950. Continue reading... Collapse
Labour facing moment of truth over tax pledges, economists warn
5 DAYS AGO - Experts say 5.5% pay increase for public sector not ‘consistent’ with spending plans that rule out Expand
5 DAYS AGO - Experts say 5.5% pay increase for public sector not ‘consistent’ with spending plans that rule out tax risesLabour is fast approaching a moment of truth over its election pledges on tax and spending, experts have warned, after Rachel Reeves indicated the government could agree above-inflation pay rises for public sector staff.The chancellor promised a full statement on pay board recommendations that teachers and NHS workers should receive 5.5% pay awards, ahead of an autumn budget that is set to be one of the most difficult economic balancing acts in years. Continue reading... Collapse
Are you giving your kids a 90s summer? | Eva Wiseman
6 DAYS AGO - Balls, bikes, possibly boredom. As the summer holidays begin, and nostalgia for the good old days Expand
6 DAYS AGO - Balls, bikes, possibly boredom. As the summer holidays begin, and nostalgia for the good old days kicks in, it’s worth wondering if it really was better back thenAs the school holidays begin, parents tend to behave in one of two ways. The first is to pray, not to God or the universe, but to time itself, begging it for some leniency, a bit of give. Please time, this year please stretch and fold around our external pressures and internal needs. You will recognise these parents by their blank white eyes and empty pockets, and skin that ripples then turns grey across the long month of August.The second type of parent (I say parent, I’m being coy, of course, we’re talking about mothers here) runs at the summer as if she’s in a sanitary-pad commercial or attacking a bear. She has plans, schedules, craft materials, hope. The holidays for her are an opportunity for self-discovery and existential relaxation, for resetting the mind and reclaiming the soul, even during fractured workdays and Collapse
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One in six vapes confiscated at English schools spiked with ‘zombie drug’
1 DAY AGO - Warning of risk of serious harm as synthetic drug spice found in vapes in 28 of 38 schools Expand
1 DAY AGO - Warning of risk of serious harm as synthetic drug spice found in vapes in 28 of 38 schools testedOne in six vapes confiscated in English schools are spiked with the highly addictive “zombie drug” spice, according to research.Analysis from 38 schools revealed that the synthetic street drug, classified as class B alongside ketamine and GHB, was in nearly 100 devices. The researchers said they believed the substance was being put into vapes marketed as containing cannabis oil. Continue reading... Collapse
Third of Team GB athletes for Paris Olympics educated privately
2 DAYS AGO - Study finds 33.3% of squad went to private schools, up nine percentage points from 24% in 2016 Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Study finds 33.3% of squad went to private schools, up nine percentage points from 24% in 2016 teamThe proportion of privately educated athletes in the Team GB squad has increased to a third of all competitors, a study has found.Of the 318 athletes in the 2024 Team GB squad schooled in the UK, 106 or 33.3% were privately educated, up nine percentage points from 24% in the 2016 team that travelled to Rio de Janeiro in 2016, analysis by the Good Schools Guide revealed. Continue reading... Collapse
We don't know how many people are having babies - and that's a headache for schools
3 DAYS AGO - Working out how many school pupils to budget for may well prove to be a headache for the Expand
3 DAYS AGO - Working out how many school pupils to budget for may well prove to be a headache for the government. Collapse
Rampant slaughter! Sexy armour! Tiger maulings! We bust the gladiator myths
3 DAYS AGO - As Those About to Die brings swords and sandals back to the screen, the ‘Colosseum consultant’ who Expand
3 DAYS AGO - As Those About to Die brings swords and sandals back to the screen, the ‘Colosseum consultant’ who advises all the epic productions about accuracy tells us why he is ‘paid to be ignored’One of the many things Alexander Mariotti wants you to know about Those About to Die, the new Amazon Prime show set in ancient Rome, is that gladiators rarely actually died in colosseum combat. Although the phrase “Kill or be killed” is a powerful marketing tool, real gladiators tended to have long, healthy careers. “But let’s be honest,” says Mariotti, “if you had a show coming out tomorrow called Those Who Rarely Die, you’d say, ‘That’s a crap show. I don’t want to watch that. I want to watch something where someone might die.’”Set in 79AD, Those About to Die is a sexy swords’n’sandals affair telling interweaving stories about emperors, gladiators and chariot-racers. Not only does Anthony Hopkins pop up, but several episodes were directed by Roland Emmerich, the maker of Independence Day. Mariotti, Collapse
What could £700m cost of Rwanda scheme have paid for instead?
4 DAYS AGO - Scheme denounced as ‘shocking waste’ by new home secretary could have funded teachers, border Expand
4 DAYS AGO - Scheme denounced as ‘shocking waste’ by new home secretary could have funded teachers, border force officers or renewable energy farmsFailed Rwanda deportation scheme cost £700m, says Yvette CooperThe home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has revealed the Conservatives’ Rwanda scheme cost taxpayers £700m, calling it the “most shocking waste of taxpayers’ money I have ever seen”.Here we take a look at what £700m could and could not be used for: Continue reading... Collapse
Did you solve it? Can you outwit the wizards of Oz?
4 DAYS AGO - The answers to today’s puzzlesEarlier today I set you these three problems from Parabola, a Expand
4 DAYS AGO - The answers to today’s puzzlesEarlier today I set you these three problems from Parabola, a wonderful magazine from Australia that was first published 60 years ago this month. Here they are again with solutions. Continue reading... Collapse
Unis told to manage own budgets after call for bailouts
4 DAYS AGO - Education secretary comments after union says many unis face "catastrophe" without emergency cash.
Biologist Rosemary Grant: ‘Evolution happens much quicker than Darwin thought’
5 DAYS AGO - The evolutionary expert discusses the triumphs and challenges of the groundbreaking research on Expand
5 DAYS AGO - The evolutionary expert discusses the triumphs and challenges of the groundbreaking research on Galápagos Islands finches she undertook with her husband, PeterStudying Darwin’s finches has been the life’s work of the renowned British evolutionary biologists Rosemary and Peter Grant. For several months every year for 40 years, the husband-and-wife team visited the Galápagos Islands in the eastern Pacific to meticulously track the fate of thousands of finches on two small islands there. The Grants demonstrated that evolution by natural selection can be observed in the wild in real time: they were the first to see and measure it in action in nature. One Step Sideways, Three Steps Forward is Rosemary Grant’s new memoir. It reflects on her far-from-straight path to becoming a biologist, living with a family on the Galápagos – for 10 years the scientists’ two daughters accompanied them – and the joy of sharing ideas with her partner. Rosemary, 87, is senior research biologist, emeritus at Collapse
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