SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingimage copyrightVSOBoris Johnson at the G7 summit has pledged £430m to improve education in some of the world's poorest countries - with girls' education a priority.The prime minister said it was a source of "international shame" that so many girls in poorer...
SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingimage copyrightReutersAround 150 Oxford University academics are refusing to teach at one of its colleges after it decided to keep the controversial statue of Cecil Rhodes.For years campaigners have been calling for the statue at Oriel College to go, saying Rhodes stood...
SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingScotland's new education secretary has made a "cast-iron guarantee" that no young person will be further disadvantaged by this year's assessments. Shirley-Anne Somerville promised pupils "If your teacher thinks you deserve an A, you will get an A".She said she still had...
Teachers face an “almost impossible task” in fairly awarding A-level and GCSE grades in place of exams during the pandemic, according to researchers who found that students in England from highly educated backgrounds benefited from more generously assessed grades.The study by University College London and...
SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingQueen's University Belfast (QUB) has made about 150 fewer offers to students who have applied to study medicine in 2021.The university said it had made the move to "take into account" an expected rise in A-level results.It also wanted to ensure it...
Students who drop mathematics at the age of 16 have lower amounts of a brain chemical that is critical for brain and cognitive development, compared with those who continue maths, a study has found.Researchers at the University of Oxford found that those who stopped maths...
Ahead of this week’s G7 summit in Cornwall, illustrators of much loved children’s books have joined families across the UK in tracing their hands – raising them in unison to call for action from world leaders on the Covid pandemic, injustice, the climate crisis and...
Microsoft blocked its search engine, Bing, from returning image and video results for the phrase “tank man” – a reference to the iconic image of a lone protester facing down tanks during the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square – on Friday, the 32nd anniversary of...
SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingimage copyrightGetty ImagesTwo of Scotland's education authorities are to be reformed amid criticism of the plans put in place to replace school exams.The Scottish government said the role, remit and purpose of Education Scotland and the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) will be...
Schools in England should continue to educate pupils for the remainder of the school year, rather than giving them an extended holiday as “study leave” for exams that were cancelled, the head of the Ofsted has said.Amanda Spielman, Her Majesty’s chief inspector of schools, said...