55 h. ago Greek airport strike set to cause major disruption to Brits in school holidays

The 24-hour strike is set to cause chaos for anyone heading to Greece as air traffic controllers will only handle emergency and urgent flights

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5 d. ago Teacher who 'sexually assaulted schoolgirl' set up party firm for tots as young as one

Teacher Jeremy Cotton sent his victim more than 100 emails in a month. When brought before a professional conduct panel he moaned members "always side with the student"

Society

6 d. ago Dreamers review – this teen dance drama is too subtle for its own good. Where’s the debauchery?

Where other teen shows ramp up the sex, drugs and scandal, this Leeds-set saga about rivalries in a dance school keeps it real – so real it almost refuses to be entertainingThe implausibility of the teen drama may well be the genre’s defining feature. In the 00s, we were subjected to untold glamour and relentless wisecracking by US imports such as The OC and Gossip Girl. The UK equivalent was Skins, in which a group of Bristolian party animals managed to make practically every personal problem known to man look intimidatingly cool. More recently, we’ve had mind-blowing levels of debauchery from Euphoria, mind-blowing levels of sexual literacy and candour from Sex Education and mind-blowing levels of heartwarming niceness from Heartstopper. All of it is ludicrous in its own way.Dreamers is different. It is realistic – jarringly so. That’s both a pro and a con for this Channel 4 drama about a group of teenage dancers living in Leeds. The series – written by Lisa Holdsworth (Waterloo R...

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6 d. ago How and why parents and teachers are introducing young children to AI

Guardian readers share the ways and reasons they are preparing their children and students for a future that may necessitate familiarity with generative artificial intelligenceSince the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, generative artificial intelligence has trickled down from adults in their offices to university students in campus libraries to teenagers in high school hallways. Now it’s reaching the youngest among us, and parents and teachers are grappling with the most responsible way to introduce their under-13s to a new technology that may fundamentally reshape the future. Though the terms of service for ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and other AI models specify that the tools are only meant for those over 13, parents and teachers are taking the matter of AI education into their own hands.Inspired by a story we published on parents who are teaching their children to use AI to set them up for success in school and at work, we asked Guardian readers how and why – or why not – others are...

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6 d. ago The big picture: a Chad gymnast scores top marks for determination

Behind Antonio López Díaz’s image of the inspirational Achta Derib is a story of how small changes can transform livesThe wall behind her is pockmarked and worn. She’s barefoot against a hard, cracked floor. And yet Achta Derib’s pose in this photograph by Antonio López Díaz, a finalist in the professional sports category at the Sony world photography awards, suggests reserves of determination that will carry her across continents to perform at the highest levels of her sport.For Díaz, who has been documenting her journey since 2019, Derib’s story “stands as a symbol of resilience”. She was one of hundreds of girls from Chad who joined a pioneering gymnastics class at a school outside the capital, N’Djamena. Set up in 2016 by a Chadian Jesuit priest and a Spanish club president, with support from Spain’s Ramón Grosso Foundation, the class was the first of its kind in the central African country, where nearly half the population lives below the poverty line. Chad lacked gymnastic...

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7 d. ago Married teacher, 40, struck off for sexually assaulting schoolgirl set up a children's party business for tots as young as one

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Cotton, 40, (pictured) was working as a computing teacher at Perins School for 11 to 16-year-olds in Hampshire when he was accused of feeling up one of his female pupils.

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1 week ago More than £100,000 set aside for work at Linwood school as petition raises concerns

Plea for action over "heavily-worn" carpets, "unsafe" sink units and sports pitch at Our Lady of Peace Primary School.

Economics

2 w. ago Prince William admits Princess Charlotte will 'poach' poignant gift from him on return home

Prince William visited the Freedom School in Tallinn, Estonia today, which was set up after war in Ukraine broke out, and there he met with teachers and students from the war-torn country

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2 w. ago Two Swansea primary schools set to be replaced with one new one for 518 pupils

It's early days and the proposal in the meantime is to amalgamate Blaenymaes and Portmead primaries before a new school to replace both of them is created

Politics

2 w. ago Event set on 88th anniversary of New London School explosion

Event set on 88th anniversary of New London School explosion  Fort Bend Herald

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3 w. ago Islington school closures 'setting children up for failure' parents warn as teachers strike for two weeks

Parents have warned that their children are being ‘set up for failure’ if their schools are shut

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3 w. ago Maintenance hole explosion at Texas Tech University causes fires, outages and cancels classes

Authorities at Texas Tech University say an explosion inside a maintenance hole set off fires and power outages on the campus, leading school officials to issue evacuation orders for several buildings and cancel classes for the rest of the week

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3 w. ago No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils

Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policyPredictions that adding VAT to private school fees would set off a wave of parents moving children to the state sector have been proved wrong at their first key test, according to figures from councils in England.While critics including the former chancellor Jeremy Hunt had predicted that up to 90,000 children could flood the state sector if VAT of 20% was charged, most councils say they have seen no impact from the policy in applications to start at state secondary schools later this year. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Sir Alex Ferguson leads Cheltenham fever as UK battle for 'horse racing's Ryder Cup'

Cheltenham is kicking off on Tuesday, with horse racing trainers from Great Britain and Ireland set to battle it out who can school the most winners at the races

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4 w. ago Britain's Got Talent's golden buzzer star reveals huge goal after winning over Amanda Holden

Schoolboy Olly Pearson, 11, has set his sights high after wowing Amanda.

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