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A job that changed me: I ran observatory tours as a student. An eight-year-old’s question taught me two important lessons

In my role, I would lead tour groups of about 20 people. We'd look at stars and planets through telescopes. If the skies were filled from horizon to horizon with clouds, we'd explore more of the universe through a 3D…

‘They assume the man next to me is the owner’: four women doing business in Africa in their own way

Four business leaders from Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya and Malawi tell us about the inspiration behind their success – and the challenges women still face. Ifedolapo Runsewe, Nigeria: giving waste tyres a new life On the…

Sara won a prized place to study medicine in Glasgow. Why is the Home Office blocking her?

She secured a highly sought after place to study medicine at Kabul University in February 2021, but in a matter of months the Taliban returned to power and imposed a ban on women studying for degrees. Sara had been…

Silicon Valley parents want the tech they help build out of their children’s schools

Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2015, the software engineer has bounced between startups and giants including Netflix , Facebook and GitHub. But when it came to the education of his daughter, Victoria, he…

Protest leaders urge French pupils to keep barricading their schools

"Today we're at the negotiating table, we're able to negotiate with the government," Pierre Sourzat of Les Lycéens told France Info television. "We're in a power struggle and we still need to call for continued…

Goldsmiths fine art students call for compensation over record tutor strike

"I was really excited to start my studies at Goldsmiths," one international student told the Guardian at a gathering of unhappy students on Friday. "But when I first arrived, I was quite shocked because almost all the…

Ever Since I Knew Myself review – confronting the scars of childhood

Aiming her lens at a rocky beach thrashed by crashing waves, Maka Gogaladze opens her intimate film with a painful anecdote from her adolescent years. Through on-screen texts against a stormy sky, the Georgian film-maker…

My mother donated her body to science. I really wasn’t prepared for what came next

Reluctantly, she filed for short-term disability from her job and paused her training to become a volunteer search and rescue EMT. My mom was 40 when she started physical therapy school. I was already a teenager. Despite…

West End to get another lesson from The History Boys two decades on

"There has been a decline of humanities subjects in state schools, an almost terminal decline of music and drama teaching, history and modern languages have been downgraded," he said. "But it has obviously been a…

Only one female scientist named in GCSEs, research finds

A Cambridge study found that of the 86 scientists named by UK exam boards, the English chemist, whose work in the 1950s helped reveal the structure of DNA, was the only woman. Exam specifications set out the skills and…