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- Gaza PhD student and family evacuated to UK after Foreign Office U-turn December 19, 2025Manar 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, 2025Bestselling 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
- Ben Jennings on plans to tackle misogyny in English schools – cartoon December 18, 2025Discover and buy more of Ben’s cartoons hereOrder your own print of this cartoon from the Guardian Print Shop Continue reading...Ben Jennings
- Deepfakes and porn: the plan to tackle toxic masculinity in schools | The Latest December 18, 2025The government has announced a multimillion-pound investment to tackle misogyny in England’s schools, but is it enough? As part of the government’s flagship strategy, teachers will be able to send children as young as 11 on behavioural courses if they are witnessing disturbing or worrying behaviour. The courses will include teachings on deepfakes, image-based abuse […]Lucy Hough Alexandra Topping Bryony Moore
- Deepfakes and pornography: the plan to tackle toxic masculinity – The Latest December 18, 2025The UK government’s long-awaited strategy to tackle violence against women and girls has been published today. Alexandra Topping joins Lucy Hough to explain what it will change, amid concerns that ‘toxic ideas’ are going unchallenged in schools Continue reading...Presented by Lucy Hough with Alexandra Topping; produced by Bryony Moore and James Tindale
- Teachers in England face growing misogyny and need help dealing with sexual aggression, says Phillips December 18, 2025Comments from safeguarding minister come as violence against women and girls strategy due to launch• UK politics live – latest updatesSchools are reporting growing misogyny from pupils towards teachers and a lack of avenues to seek help about sexually aggressive behaviour, the safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, has said.Phillips’ comments came as the government was due […]Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor
- Boys to learn difference between porn and real life to tackle misogyny in England’s schools December 18, 2025Teachers to be given extra training as Keir Starmer warns ‘toxic ideas are taking hold early and going unchallenged’David Lammy: I want my sons to know masculinity can be kind – and my daughter to live without fearChildren as young as 11 who demonstrate misogynistic behaviour will be taught the difference between pornography and real […]Alexandra Topping and Rajeev Syal
- Putin calls European leaders ‘little pigs’ and says Russia will achieve Ukraine goals by diplomacy or force - as it happened December 17, 2025Russian leader says aims of its ‘special military operation’ will be met ‘unconditionally’The last available Erasmus+ country report for the UK based on 2020 data shows that University of Glasgow, University of Bristol, and University of Edinburgh were the three top UK universities sending students abroad, with most people coming into the UK from Spain, […]Jakub Krupa
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