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- French pupil’s father to go on trial for spreading lies that led to teacher’s Islamist beheading November 3, 2024Eight charged in connection with murder of Samuel Paty in Paris suburbs in 2020It was a killing that started with a lie. In October 2020, an Islamist terrorist tracked down and decapitated professor Samuel Paty as he left school on the last day before half-term holidays.In the days preceding his murder, Paty, 47, who taught […]Kim Willsher
- I didn’t mind my unusual first name – until I found out it could cost me dearly | Torsten Bell November 2, 2024Research shows that those with easier to pronounce names are more successful in the workplaceNames matter. I’ve written a whole book about our country being called Great Britain at a time when things haven’t been going great. And being called Torsten causes all kinds of trauma – there was the distant relative who just gave […]Torsten Bell
- UK schools boost maternity pay to stem exodus of female teachers in their 30s November 2, 2024Sector faces ‘catastrophic loss’ as more than 9,000 thirtysomething women leave state education in a yearSchools across England are ramping up maternity pay and offering flexible working in a bid to stem the exodus of thousands of women in their 30s from teaching.In Wednesday’s budget, Rachel Reeves confirmed she would fund the recruiting of 6,500 […]Anna Fazackerley
- The Delights review – in-depth look at rural schoolboys reveals a hidden Argentina November 2, 2024An agro-technical boarding school is the subject of this striking documentary, which offers vignettes of growing pains and childlike wonderEduardo Crespo’s sensitive documentary follows a cohort of boys at an Argentina agro-technical boarding school called Las Delicias (The Delights), and makes magic out of the mundane. On the surface, the students’ day-to-day rituals in the […]Phuong Le
- Columbia pays $395,000 to student suspended over protest ‘fart spray’ November 1, 2024Israeli student filed lawsuit after suspension for spraying pro-Palestinian protesters with foul-smelling substanceColumbia University has reached a $395,000 settlement with a student who was suspended in January after spraying student protesters with a foul-smelling substance at one of several campus demonstrations in support of Palestine.The Israeli student who received the payout had been suspended until […]Erum Salam
- Private schools to take legal action against planned VAT on fees October 31, 2024Independent Schools Council says its focus is on children and it is concerned about impact on specialist schoolsThe Independent Schools Council (ISC) has said it will launch legal action against the government’s decision to impose VAT on independent school fees.The council, which represents more than 1,400 private schools in the UK and abroad, reached its […]Tom Ambrose
- Housing, social care and universities: who lost out in the UK budget? October 31, 2024Rachel Reeves made funding the NHS a priority but people working in other areas said they were disappointedRachel Reeves’s first budget emphasised raising taxes to help the NHS, as the health service tries to cope with huge waiting lists and an ageing population. Funding the NHS was a top priority but people in other sectors […]Rowena Mason Whitehall editor
- Extra billions for schools in England will be quickly swallowed up, say experts October 30, 2024The roughly £9bn unveiled in budget expected to disappear rapidly due to rising costs and years of underinvestmentSchools in England are to get a multibillion-pound injection of funding, with extra money for children with special educational needs, but experts have said it will be rapidly swallowed up by rising costs and much more will be […]Sally Weale Education correspondent
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