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Public accounts committee warns that without more intervention, attainment gap could take decade to return to pre-Covid levelsIt could take a decade for the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their wealthier peers to return to pre-pandemic…
Principal of high-performing sixth form said two forms are ‘deeply unequal’ and diminish womenTeachers at a leading sixth form will no longer answer to “Sir” and “Miss”, because they’re “deeply unequal” and feed into a view of the world that diminishes…
A weekend of torrential rains and widespread flooding in Haiti have left at least 42 people dead, 11 missing and some 19,000 homeless, the government’s disaster response agency said. The Office of Civil Protection said the weather has left at least 7,…
Top UK music school says pandemic has hastened decline in pupils playing Marmite of woodwind worldDepending on your view, the recorder is an instrument of “incredible versatility” or a tool of torture that has terrorised primary schools for too many ge…
Matt Cook, who has written on queer urban life and the Aids crisis, takes up the new post at Mansfield CollegeThe renowned cultural historian Matt Cook is to become the UK’s first fully endowed professor of LGBTQ+ history in a newly created post at Man…
Only one in three UK children now enjoy writing in their free time – including text messages – with those on free school meals most likely to do soNew research from the National Literacy Trust shows that children’s interest in writing has reached a “cr…
Former teacher says learning classical rhetoric can help pupils become better communicatorsIt has been employed for thousands of years, taking in everything from Julius Caesar writing veni, vidi, vici (“I came, I saw, I conquered”) to Bruce Forsyth gre…
University taking disciplinary action against 11 students who occupied buildings during demonstrationsA group of Manchester University students face expulsion over a rent strike that saw more than 350 collectively withhold more than £2m.The university …
“The world’s most popular online learning course, Harvard University’s CS50, is getting a ChatGPT-era makeover,” reports Bloomberg:
CS50, an introductory course in computer science attended by hundreds of students on-campus and over 40,000 online, pla…
Speranza Scappucci hopes to demystify the art form for the English public when she becomes principal guest conductorIn her native Italy, conductor Speranza Scappucci stars in a national television show in which she sits at the piano explaining symphoni…