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  • Brown shooting suspect: gruelling academic climate may have taken mental toll, say ex-classmates December 26, 2025
    ClĂĄudio Valente and one of victims, Nuno FG Loureiro, both studied at notoriously challenging TĂ©cnico in LisbonAs investigators in Massachusetts work to piece together a motive for the murders of two Brown University students and an MIT physics professor, former classmates of the suspected gunman and one of the victims have been asking if the […]
    Catarina Fernandes Martins in Lisbon
  • ‘The hidden engine room’: how amateur historians are powering genealogical research December 26, 2025
    Wealth of datasets compiled as private passions are now a goldmine for those hunting for their ancestorsThe autumn sunlight is filtering through quietly falling leaves as Louise Cocker stands in front of the gravestone of James Henry Payne and takes a quick photograph. Payne died at the age of 73 in October 1917 and was […]
    Esther Addley
  • ‘Keeps your mind alert’: older Swedes reap the benefits of learning for pleasure December 26, 2025
    Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbersRecord numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions.Senioruniversitet, a national university that collaborates with Sweden’s adult education institution Folkuniversitetet, has about 30 […]
    Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent
  • Ukrainian refugee leaves UK sixth-form college that urged her ‘to study Russian’ December 25, 2025
    Kateryna Endeberia says teachers made the ‘hurtful’ request when she had difficulty with other subjectsA Ukrainian refugee has been forced to drop out of sixth-form college after she said she was put under pressure to study Russian.Kateryna Endeberia moved to Stoke-on-Trent after fleeing Ukraine in 2022, after the start of Russia’s invasion. Continue reading...
    Rachel Hall
  • New York school board investigates wooden ‘timeout’ box allegations December 22, 2025
    Governor calls accusations that students with disabilities may have been confined in boxes ‘highly disturbing’A school district board in upstate New York is investigating school officials amid accusations that the district may have confined elementary school students inside wooden “timeout” boxes.Images of the boxes, which resemble tiny padded cells, first spread on social media last […]
    Carter Sherman
  • Regulator ‘asleep at the wheel’ over University of Greater Manchester investigation, MP says December 22, 2025
    Office for Students accused of ‘glacial’ response to allegations of fraud, bullying and mismanagementEngland’s universities regulator has been attacked for being “asleep at the wheel” over its delays in investigating suspected fraud, bullying and mismanagement at the University of Greater Manchester.Phil Brickell, the MP for Bolton West whose constituency adjoins the campus, has accused the […]
    Richard Adams Education editor
  • Gaza PhD student and family evacuated to UK after Foreign Office U-turn December 19, 2025
    Manar al-Houbi’s family had been denied entry despite a scholarship covering their living costs, but other students remain strandedThe UK government has finally evacuated Manar al-Houbi, the Gaza student who won a fully funded scholarship to pursue her PhD at the University of Glasgow, along with her family from the war-ravaged territory this week.In October, […]
    Thaslima Begum
  • Thrillers should be on UK school curriculum to boost reading, says Lee Child December 19, 2025
    Bestselling author says focus on ‘masterpieces’ puts children off as he promotes prison literacy schemeToo much of the literature taught in UK schools is putting children off reading and thrillers should become part of the curriculum, one of the world’s biggest selling authors has argued.Lee Child, the British writer of Jack Reacher novels, which have […]
    Mark Brown North of England correspondent
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