33 h. ago DOE withholds billions from school for teacher training and afterschool programs in districts as it looks to trim agency

Educators some say the reality is ‘worse than [they] imagined’ – after having expected to begin receiving the grants on July 1

Politics

35 h. ago Prep school teacher accused of having sex with student, 16, then BRAGGING about it to a colleague

Jocelynn Sanroman, 26, is accused of having sex with the teen boy, who was a student at a prep school about 30 miles outside Detroit, in August 2023.

Society

43 h. ago Teachers go on strike over plans to lengthen school day by 30 minutes as parents speak out

While one union has paused industrial action, another is refusing to back down

Society

62 h. ago Former Scottish private school teacher jailed for nine years for abuse of 11 boys

The former physics teacher was sentenced to nine years in jail.

Events

62 h. ago Teachers to strike for 10 more days over plans to lengthen school day at Greater Manchester secondary

Parents have described the action as 'appalling'

Events

3 d. ago Pregnant teacher rushed to hospital with bleed on the brain days before due date

Secondary school teacher Rachel Rimmer took a worrying turn days before she was due to give birth to her daughter after suddenly suffering a headache on her last day of work

Politics

3 d. ago US Catholic school fires teacher after husband’s obituary reveals his marriage to a man

Mark Richards says a parent complained to New Orleans’ St Francis Xavier school after reading his late husband’s obituaryA longtime music teacher at a Catholic school in the New Orleans area recently lost his job when it was revealed to an evidently “disgruntled” parent that he was another man’s widower, igniting a scandal within an archdiocese that has otherwise largely been occupied with trying to reorganize its finances in federal bankruptcy court after its clergymen spent decades sexually molesting children.In an email to community members at the archdiocese-run school from which he was dismissed, Mark Richards explained that he had been fired because a parent notified officials about an obituary for his husband, who died of a heart attack in September 2023. Continue reading...

Events

4 d. ago Private school teachers out on landmark strike, as 'nine in ten educators at Britain's largest academy chain claim they have had to take second jobs to make ends meet'

Nine in ten private school teachers at Britain's largest academy chain say they have had to take second jobs to make ends meet because they are paid so little.

Society

4 d. ago Moment high school graduate gets dream job offer mid ceremony

This is the moment a high school graduate got offered their dream teaching job whilst up on stage during the ceremony in New Jersey.

Politics

5 d. ago Primary school deputy head who bit and scratched child avoids teaching ban

Claire Herbert got into an argument with the child that became physical on June 18 2022, according to a Teaching Regulation Agency tribunal.

Society

6 d. ago Primary school teachers arrested in Japan for sharing indecent photos of girls

Yuji Moriyama and Fumiya Kosemura suspected to be members of online chat group of schoolteachers with shared interest in voyeuristic photography and videography

Culture

7 d. ago Palestinian student sues Michigan school over teacher's reaction to her refusal to stand for Pledge

A suburban Detroit school district has been sued by a student of Palestinian descent refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance

Society

7 d. ago How Hideo Kojima created yet another weird, wonderful world in Death Stranding 2

In Kojima’s latest epic, the Australian outback becomes a shifting, spectral landscape that you can get lost inAs a teenager in the late 1980s, I became obsessed with Australian new wave cinema, thanks partly to the Mad Max trilogy, and partly to an English teacher at my high school, who rolled out the TV trolley one afternoon and showed us Nicolas Roeg’s masterpiece Walkabout. We were mesmerised. Forty years later, I am playing Death Stranding 2, Hideo Kojima’s sprawling apocalyptic adventure, and there are times I feel as if I’m back in that classroom. Most of the game takes place in a ruined Australia, the cities gone, the landscape as stark, beautiful and foreboding as it was in Roeg’s film.I’ve been playing for 45 hours and have barely made an impact on the story. Instead, I have wandered the wilderness, delivering packages to the game’s isolated communities. The game is set after a catastrophic event has decimated humanity and scarred the landscape with supernatural explosions...

Events

7 d. ago Homeowner is ordered to tear down £180k bungalow he built in in his back garden without planning permission because he 'thought it was fine'

Mark Jones, 55, replaced an old garage in his back garden with a two-bedroom 'granny flat', hooking up the electricity, water and internet to his house in March 2019.

Economics

8 d. ago School leaders’ unions consider encouraging members to quit as Ofsted inspectors

The Association of School and College Leaders and the National Association of Head Teachers may take the ‘unprecedented step’ over inspection reforms.

Politics

1 week ago School's out forever for dedicated languages teacher at St Aidan's High in Wishaw

Fiona McGrogan has spent the last 36 years educating young people in Lanarkshire

Politics

1 week ago Science teacher banned from classroom after telling pupil ‘I’m good at guessing bra sizes’

Antony Jones, 59, taught science at Humphry Davy School in Penzance, Cornwall, and sent several inappropriate messages to students

Events

1 week ago Primary school teacher flung from fairground ride at 60mph after safety bar gave way

Jade Harrison said she's 'lucky to be alive' after the Hull Fair incident

Society

1 week ago Pupils in England face lost learning from flooding and extreme heat, study finds

School leaders call for action on adaptation measures as DfE research warns of potential impact of climate crisisChildren in England face prolonged “lost learning” caused by extreme heat and flooding at school, according to research on the potential impact of the climate crisis on education.School leaders and teachers said the scenarios published by the Department for Education made for grim reading and urged ministers to move quickly to improve school resilience. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago Teachers left shocked as 'thriving' historic south London primary school to close after 131 years

The school first opened in 1894 and used to be known as Eardley school

Events