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- We are teaching children maths they will never use. Isn’t it better to help them speak fluently? | Simon Jenkins October 16, 2026The education secretary is right to focus on what students need most: the ability to express themselves. As for maths, grab a calculatorAt last the fourth R is born. Articulation – speaking – is to join reading, writing and arithmetic in the education canon. What has become the mighty struggle against the dictatorship of the […]Simon Jenkins
- Online ads weaponised to deliver ‘zero-click’ spyware, researchers say October 15, 2026Discover-Tech’s Controlium software lets clients mass-profile internet users then covertly hack targets, say researchers at University of TorontoAn Israeli advertising agency has been serving millions of online adverts that allow “zero-click” spyware to be used against targets, researchers at a Canadian university have said.Citizen Lab, a digital investigations research unit at the University of Toronto, […]Aisha Down
- Student protests in Albania turn violent as demonstrators clash with police October 14, 2026Dozens of people detained after government building and two banks set on fire as tens of thousands march over education costs and corruptionTens of thousands of students have taken to the streets of Tirana, the Albanian capital, setting alight a government building and two banks and hurling stones at police during a protest over rising […]Guardian staff and agencies in Tirana
- France’s class action: inside the 16 October Guardian Weekly October 14, 2026What drove student protests? Plus: Duran Duran’s extraordinary world • Get the Guardian Weekly delivered to your home addressFrance has been rocked by huge youth protests in recent weeks over the state of high school education, bringing tens of thousands of people on to the streets.The movement began with outrage over shoddy school conditions in […]Clare Horton
- ‘Children are naturally drawn to beauty’: the head of the ‘Issey Miyake’ preschool on their pleated uniforms October 14, 2026Ms Lam Montessori’s head of school reveals teachers wear a different Japanese designer after their chic clothes drew online envy“Does anyone know what the deal is Ms Lam Montessori … and why all their employees wear Issey Miyake … every day … I’m confused and a bit jealous,” asked one commenter on the Williamsburg subreddit […]Hannah Marriott
- Stop making sense: focus on sounds to help learn a language, study suggests October 13, 2026Research shows that the best linguists process unfamiliar foreign speech sounds more like non-speech soundsIf you want to get really good at French, Arabic or Hungarian, don’t start with rote learning vocabulary and grammar, focus on how they sound instead, research suggests.A new study of how humans learn modern languages has found that the brains […]Anna Bawden
- Bacon, eggs and Bowie: how year 12 English students tackled ‘human strength and vulnerability’ in HSC paper October 13, 2026Tens of thousands of high school students across New South Wales sit the first test of their final examsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast“How does the composer of your prescribed text offer you opportunities to examine assumptions about human strength and vulnerability?”This was the bamboozling English question tens of thousands […]Nick Visser
- English councils warn of ‘catastrophic’ Send debts forecast to hit £10bn by 2028 October 12, 2026Surge in EHCP applications poses risk to public finances and may lead to deteriorating levels of supportCouncils are warning of potentially “catastrophic” debts, which are forecast to reach a record £10bn over the next 18 months, as a result of rapid growth in demand for special educational needs and disability (Send) support in English schools.Although […]Patrick Butler and Richard Adams
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