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NFER says pupil behaviour, stagnant pay and inflexible working practices contributing to exodus from workforceTeachers in England are abandoning the classroom over worsening pupil behaviour, stagnant pay and inflexible working practices, leaving vacanc…
Kim Johnson tells parliament lessons must be learnt from poor treatment of children at institutions in 1960s and 70sThe historic injustice of a scandal in which black children were incorrectly labelled “educationally subnormal” and sent to schools for …
More than 1,300 dismissals seem first step toward quashing US agency entirely as education secretary touts ‘efficiency’The Trump administration has decimated the US Department of Education, firing more than 1,300 employees in a single day in what looks…
Firings announced Tuesday as administration decried as ‘detached from how Americans live’The US Department of Education intends to lay off nearly half of its workforce. The layoffs of 1,300 people were announced by the department on Tuesday and describ…
Interim principal says drastic measures needed to tackle £35m shortfall in day-to-day spendingDundee University has announced plans to cut more than 600 jobs and reduce its teaching by a fifth to help cope with a £35m deficit in its accounts.The univer…
Checkpoints backed by education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, follow complaints from teachers of children arriving in nappiesToilet training and the ability to use cutlery are two key checkpoints in a new list of “school-readiness” skills developed by…
Government’s lead on academic freedom cautions of significant danger to integrity if expression is restrictedUniversities in England should rearrange classrooms and use the Chatham House rule to help students overcome their fears of discussing controve…
Analysis of post-Covid performance overturns recent claims that boys are falling behind girls at schoolBoys in England have opened a wide gap over girls in maths and science, based on analysis by researchers using an authoritative international assess…
Philosophy/ethics professor Troy Jollimore looks at the implications of a world where many students are submitting AI-generated essays. (“Sometimes they will provide quotations, giving page numbers that, as often as not, do not seem to correspond to an…
Exclusive: Costs particularly acute in more rural areas, where many children with special needs have to use taxisCouncils in England urgently need more money to help them pay for school transport for children with special needs.Many councils have told …