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• Biden’s planned Morehouse College commencement speech spurs alumni protest April 24, 2024
  President, scheduled to speak at the historically Black campus before the start of the Israel-Gaza war, will give speech on 19 MayStudent campus protests – live updates Joe Biden will be the commencement speaker at Morehouse College in Georgia, giving the Democrat a key spotlight at one of the nation’s pre-eminent historically Black campuses but […]
  Associated Press
• Pupils in England ‘facing worst exam results in decades’ after Covid closures April 24, 2024
  GCSE results in key subjects to steadily worsen until 2030, predicts research that blames failure to tackle impact of schools lockdownChildren in England could face the worst exam results in decades and a lifetime of lower earnings, according to research that blames failures to tackle the academic and social legacies of school closures during Covid.The […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• England childcare scheme may struggle to deliver places, finds ‘damning’ report April 23, 2024
  Watchdog says only a third of local authorities are confident they will have enough places for SeptemberThe deployment of the government’s childcare scheme to tens of thousands more families is facing “significant uncertainties” and may struggle to meet its own targets, according to a report by Whitehall’s spending watchdog.The National Audit Office revealed the Department […]
  Sally Weale
• The expansion of free childcare has been a Tory-fied mess of a bright Labour idea | Polly Toynbee April 23, 2024
  On a visit to a combined nursery and primary school, I saw how early years provision can really be transformedPanic and a screeching U-turn. The prime minister dismissed claims there were too few nursery places for every two-year-old in England (with working parents) on 1 April, the day that entitlement to 15 hours a week […]
  Polly Toynbee
• Dozens arrested at Yale and NYU as pro-Palestinian student protests spread April 23, 2024
  Authorities move to break up encampments at two more US universities on Monday, as Columbia University cancels in-person classesPolice arrested dozens of people at pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Yale University in Connecticut and New York University in Manhattan, as student protests over Israel’s war in Gaza continue to roil US campuses.On the Yale University campus in […]
  Erum Salam and agencies
• ‘I was only able to go on stage hammered’: David Harewood on acting, racism and his new role at Rada April 23, 2024
  He had barely started his career when abuse left him mentally ill. But he went on to phenomenal success – and has just been made president of the UK’s leading drama schoolThis is the first time David Harewood has stepped through the doors of Rada’s London headquarters since he became its president in mid-February, and […]
  Steve Rose
• Columbia faculty members walk out after pro-Palestinian protesters arrested April 23, 2024
  Hundreds of members of teaching staff demonstrate in solidarity with arrested students as protest tents put back up on campusHundreds of faculty members at Columbia University in New York held a mass walkout on Monday to protest against the school president’s decision to have police arrest students at a pro-Palestinian encampment protest last week.The solidarity […]
  Gloria Oladipo and Erum Salam New York
• Israel, Gaza and divestment: why are Columbia students protesting? April 22, 2024
  The university is to hold virtual classes after protests on campus culminated in the arrest of more than 100 studentsOver 100 students at Columbia were arrested last week after refusing to leave a pro-Palestinian protest encampment set up on the university’s main campus. The arrests have since set off a chain of events, including the […]
  Lauren Aratani