Harvard rejects Trump administration’s demands for change
Harvard University has rejected a list of sweeping demands sent by the White House that asked the university to change many of its policies or risk losing billions of dollars…
School’s classroom marquees to be replaced after concrete crisis
Lilly-Mae Messenger BBC News, West of England Clevedon School Currently, the school is using a tented ‘learning village’ as classrooms Students are set to move out of marquee classrooms after…
Keele University staff to strike over school merger plan
Richard Price BBC News, West Midlands BBC The strikes are due to take place on five dates across April and May Staff at a university in Staffordshire have voted to…
Teachers in England say they would strike over pay
Getty Images Many schools were forced to close when teachers walked out two years ago. Teachers in England have said they would be willing to strike over the government’s proposed…
The pioneering child development study monitoring babies’ brains
Victoria Gill Science correspondent Kevin Church/BBC News Researchers are using specially designed games and brain-scanning ‘hats’ to work out how children develop key skills Two-year-old Henry is completely transfixed by…
University of Lincoln warns of potential job cuts
James Turner Local Democracy Reporting Service Sarah-May Buccieri BBC News University of Lincoln The majority of staff who leave will do so through voluntary redundancy, says the university The University…
Isle of Sheppey parents threaten court action over school places
Bob Dale BBC News, South East Gabriel Morris Local Democracy Reporting Service LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTING SERVICE Parents affected by the decisions gathered at a meeting A group of parents have…
Leave phone bans to head teachers, children’s commissioner says
Getty Images Banning phones in schools should be a decision for head teachers and not “imposed nationally by the government”, England’s children’s commissioner has said. Nine in ten secondary schools…
‘Working from home has helped me be a better mum’
BBC Martha, pictured with two of her three children, says her life has been transformed after she changed her job to work from home Martha was struggling to sleep, losing…
Former principal to head Dundee University taskforce
A former Dundee University principal has been named as the chairman of a new taskforce set up to help the financially-stricken institution. Sir Alan Langlands, who has also served as…