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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 …
Life expectancy, homelessness and young people’s mental health were among the areas where Britain performed poorly despite spending more than other countriesBritain performed worse than most other developed nations in its response to the Covid pandemic…
Despite winning a landmark legal battle, academic Alice Jolly believes it won’t benefit othersAn academic who won a landmark court battle last year against Oxford University for employing her and her colleague on “sham” gig economy contracts has critic…
President’s slashes to higher education institutions and research funding threaten US public health, workers sayStudents, researchers, faculty and leadership at universities and colleges across the US are grappling with drastic short- and long-term imp…
Government alleges university failed to protect Jewish students amid pro-Palestinian protests on campusThe Donald Trump administration announced on Friday that it had canceled $400m in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University in New York bec…
PhD students trained in small research groups are more likely to remain in academia than those from larger labs, according to a comprehensive analysis published in Nature Human Behaviour.
The study, which examined 1.5 million scientists and 1.8 milli…