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- Brown shooting suspect: gruelling academic climate may have taken mental toll, say ex-classmates December 26, 2025ClĂĄudio 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
- âThe hidden engine roomâ: how amateur historians are powering genealogical research December 26, 2025Wealth 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
- âKeeps your mind alertâ: older Swedes reap the benefits of learning for pleasure December 26, 2025Retirees with âfantastic hunger for educationâ taking part in university organised events in record numbersRecord numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run âby pensioners for pensionersâ amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions.Senioruniversitet, a national university that collaborates with Swedenâs adult education institution Folkuniversitetet, has about 30 […]Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent
- Ukrainian refugee leaves UK sixth-form college that urged her âto study Russianâ December 25, 2025Kateryna Endeberia says teachers made the âhurtfulâ 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 Russiaâs invasion. Continue reading...Rachel Hall
- New York school board investigates wooden âtimeoutâ box allegations December 22, 2025Governor calls accusations that students with disabilities may have been confined in boxes âhighly disturbingâA school district board in upstate New York is investigating school officials amid accusations that the district may have confined elementary school students inside wooden âtimeoutâ boxes.Images of the boxes, which resemble tiny padded cells, first spread on social media last […]Carter Sherman
- Regulator âasleep at the wheelâ over University of Greater Manchester investigation, MP says December 22, 2025Office for Students accused of âglacialâ response to allegations of fraud, bullying and mismanagementEnglandâs universities regulator has been attacked for being âasleep at the wheelâ 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, 2025Manar al-Houbiâs 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 âmasterpiecesâ 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 worldâs 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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