15 h. ago Stark warning issued as burden placed on teachers has ‘never been higher’

The Government should set out a long-term plan for education like the one it has for the NHS, the ASCL said

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15 h. ago Burden placed on teachers has ‘never been higher’, union warns

The Association of School and College Leaders has called for a rethink of the expectations on schools and colleges.

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5 d. ago Shooting in Minneapolis is the latest carnage at a US school or college over the past 25 years

School shootings in the U.S. have claimed hundreds of lives over the past 25 years, with the tragedy often hitting hardest when children are involved

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5 d. ago Photos of pets in dorms: Colleges are welcoming animals to help students feel at home

Sophie Nocera, a senior at Eckerd College, lives on the campus of the liberal arts school in St. Petersburg, Florida, with her Border collie, Zuko. Molly Cheer, a senior nursing major who has a cat named Louie, said she chose Northern Colorado in part because of its pet-friendly policy. Some colleges are allowing pets in dorms to boost students' mental health and help them feel more at home.

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9 d. ago Judge strikes down Minnesota law banning religious tests for college credit program

A federal judge has ruled that religious colleges in Minnesota that require students to sign a statement of faith cannot be excluded from a program allowing high school students to take college courses for credit

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1 week ago Fall in key GCSE pass rate prompts concerns about English and maths resits

The gap in GCSE results between boys and girls is now at its narrowest point this century.

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2 w. ago AD FEATURE: Why Gower College Swansea should be a top choice for school leavers

Kelly Fountain, chief executive officer, explains how the college strives to help A Level learners become the best version of themselves and set them up for success

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2 w. ago Students accepted on UK degree courses reaches record high – Ucas

The figures comes as school and college leavers across the country are receiving their A-level results.

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2 w. ago Students urged to ‘take stock’ before accepting degree places on lower grades

School and college leavers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive their A-level results on Thursday.

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3 w. ago The Benson Diary by AC Benson review – musings of an Edwardian elitist

At four million words he beats Pepys, but the daily jottings of a judgmental don fail to transcend his rather stuffy millieuAC Benson is remembered today, if at all, for having edited three volumes of Queen Victoria’s letters and for writing Land of Hope and Glory to accompany Elgar’s first Pomp and Circumstance march – though, like Elgar, he came to dislike the vainglorious imperial sentiments that the words express – “vulgar stuff and not my manner at all”. Born in 1862, he began his working life as a school master at Eton, before moving on in 1904 to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was first a fellow and then master.Notably, he left voluminous diaries – over four million words, filling 180 bound volumes – four times the length of the diaries of Samuel Pepys, who had been an undergraduate at Magdalene. Benson was well connected and knew most of the political and literary elite of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, so one might have expected him to offer a similarly ...

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