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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…
Parents and schools across Greystones adopt voluntary ‘no-smartphone code’ in bid to curb peer pressureOn the principle of strength in numbers, parents in the Irish town of Greystones have banded together to collectively tell their children they cannot…
Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson says party would reduce monthly repayments for graduatesLabour has promised to reverse changes to the student loan system being planned by the Conservative government in a way that could reduce monthly repa…
Survey follows petition demanding legislation for a statutory duty of care in higher educationStudents who are struggling with their mental health can wait a whole academic year to receive help from university counselling services, while others are all…
More vocational subjects such as computing and business preferred by those studying in EnglandLanguages and the creative arts are falling out of favour among GCSE and A-level students, who are increasingly opting for more vocational subjects such as co…