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The government plans to make Key Stage 3 a more distinct education phase, urging schools to focus less on exams and more on a "richer, more engaging" experience. The changes come in response to two reviews that found…
Read more"There is no doubt among anyone who crosses his path that he will achieve all he sets out to accomplish and more," she declared to a room full of the university's leaders, calling the medical PhD student the "epitome of…
Read moreShe also said the Department for Education (DfE) must include higher-salary examples on its own website, too. The DfE said it would review the information it provides, while universities said their websites referred to…
Read moreA total of 70,000 police officers were deployed across France on Thursday morning as street demonstrations began in cities including Marseille, Grenoble and Lyon. Emmanuel Macron's final months in office continue to be…
Read moreWe'd like to hear from teachers and parents. What do you think about Google's decision? Do you think students should have access to Google Search, regardless of AI's availability? Why or why not? What, if anything, do…
Read moreBeer said he would consider whether wider institutional changes were needed at Cambridge after looking into the protection it offered to academics facing significant public and media scrutiny and the procedures around…
Read moreMalm, the author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline and a leading climate scholar, was prevented from entering the UK last week by the Home Office after being told that his presence in the UK "may not be considered to be…
Read moreUkrainian children who were forced to seek refuge in the UK after Vladimir Putin's invasion in 2022 say it was "insulting" that their teachers suggested they study Russian in the absence of a GCSE in Ukrainian.…
Read moreIsraeli settlers had killed five teenage students last academic year – one of them at the school gates. To reassure parents, teachers of the public secondary school gave a tour of the facilities, which they had spent the…
Read moreThe protests come amid warnings that weeks without lessons are putting some pupils' school year and final exams at risk. As children returned after the two-week school holiday, students' unions ignored Emmanuel Macron's…
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