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• More than 1,000 US students punished over speech since 2020, report finds May 15, 2025
  Study paints picture of universities increasingly willing to penalize students over expression of their viewsParker Hovis was four courses away from getting his computer science degree from the University of Florida when he was arrested along with several other students at a pro-Palestine protest on campus last spring. While the charges against him were dismissed […]
  Alice Speri
• Russian scientist held in Ice jail charged with smuggling frog embryos into US May 15, 2025
  Kseniia Petrova, Harvard researcher arrested in February, faces deportation as lawyer calls case ‘meritless’A Harvard scientist who has been held in US immigration detention for months was charged on Wednesday with smuggling frog embryos into the United States, and likely faces deportation.Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist and research associate working at Harvard University, was originally […]
  Cy Neff
• London dominates England’s social mobility league with top 20 places May 14, 2025
  Sutton Trust ‘opportunity index’ measured factors such as children on free school meals passing key GCSEsThe top 20 constituencies with the best social mobility in England are all in London, according to research from a leading education charity that underscores the stark regional divide in children’s life chances.In a report published on Thursday, the Sutton […]
  Heather Stewart Economics editor
• University of Greater Manchester suspends vice-chancellor amid investigation May 13, 2025
  George Holmes and two other staff members suspended over allegations of financial irregularitiesThe vice-chancellor of the University of Greater Manchester and two other members of staff have been suspended as police confirmed an investigation was under way into “allegations of financial irregularities”.The university, which was known until recently as the University of Bolton, confirmed that […]
  Sally Weale Education correspondent
• Trump administration piles pressure on Harvard with $450m more in cuts May 13, 2025
  The latest cuts follow a $2.2bn freeze, bringing total federal penalties against Harvard to $2.65bnEight federal agencies will terminate a further $450m in grants to Harvard University, the Trump administration announced on Tuesday, escalating its antagonization of the elite institution over what officials frame as inadequate responses to antisemitism on campus.The latest funding cuts come […]
  Joseph Gedeon in Washington
• We told young people that degrees were their ticket to a better life. It’s become a great betrayal | Gaby Hinsliff May 13, 2025
  With the labour market declining and AI a threat to entry-level jobs, graduates have been sold a lie. It’s no wonder they’re angryIt’s boomerang season again. Or to put it another way, the time of year when adult children you imagined might be flying the nest come home instead to roost, a ritual that seems […]
  Gaby Hinsliff
• ‘Things could fall over’: businesses and public services on Starmer’s immigration crackdown May 12, 2025
  Social care, hospitality, health, universities and construction sectors raise questions over impact of planKeir Starmer’s blueprint for curbing immigration could exacerbate skills shortages in sectors that would “fall over” without immigrant labour, the prime minister has been told.Starmer said that businesses in particular had become “almost addicted to importing cheap labour” rather than investing in […]
  Rob Davies, Sally Weale, Jasper Jolly and Andrew Gregory
• Changes to nursery space requirements in England risk overcrowding, experts say May 12, 2025
  Pressure to create more childcare places to meet funded expansion plans threatens to undermine qualityUK politics live – latest updatesPlans to change space requirements for nurseries in England to enable them to offer more childcare places are being considered by the government, prompting warnings about overcrowding.The Department for Education has launched a consultation on whether […]
  Sally Weale Education correspondent