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Russell Group says more hard-up students in England will drop out if loans fail to keep up with rising costsHard-up students in England, who are struggling to pay their rent and bills as the cost of living soars, will lose out on as much as £1,500 a ye…
Nurses’ and ambulance strikes to go ahead after latest round of talks failed to make substantial progress. This live blog is now closedRishi Sunak also insisted in his pooled TV interview that the government was focused on “the people’s priorities”. Re…
Union chief welcomes hour-long meeting with ministers on Monday but says ‘months have been wasted’Third of England’s teachers who qualified in last decade ‘have left profession’A potential government offer of a one-off payment to teachers is unlikely t…
Exclusive: Labour analysis of DfE figures comes as party hopes to shift political focus to educationNearly a third of teachers who qualified in the last decade have since left the profession, according to Labour analysis that has been released as the p…
Government report prompts calls for better oversight to stop inappropriate practices at youth organisationsA government report has identified multiple safeguarding risks at “out-of-school settings” (OOSS), which include sports clubs, tuition centres an…
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The University of California strike is over, culminating last month in significant improvements in wages and working conditions after 48,000 teaching assistants, tutors, researchers and…
Student volunteers will be trained to teach groups of up to three children who fell behind during pandemicUniversity undergraduates are being trained to tutor disadvantaged pupils who have fallen behind as a result of the Covid pandemic, in a new pilot…
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: “A new lawsuit filed by Seattle Public Schools against TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snap, Instagram, and their parent companies alleges that the social media giants have ‘successfully exploited the vulnerable brai…
ACLU and Pen America back former Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth and say decision ‘raises serious questions’Leading civil rights organisations have condemned Harvard Kennedy School’s denial of a position to the former head of Human Rights Watch o…
February and March closures will mean biggest shutdown for years if union ballots for action this weekMost state schools across England and Wales will have to close completely on several days in February and March if the country’s biggest teaching unio…