31 h. ago French PM calls for crackdown on knife crime after fatal high school stabbing

Boy, 15, arrested after at least one child killed and three injured at Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides school in NantesThe French prime minister, François Bayrou, has called for a crackdown on teenage knife crime after a high-school student stabbed four other children at his school, killing at least one and injuring the others before being arrested.The 15-year-old reportedly attacked fellow students with a knife during lunch break on Thursday at the private Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides secondary school in the city of Nantes on the Atlantic coast. The attack took place at around 12.30pm (11.30am BST), before teachers overpowered the boy. One female student was killed. At least one other student is in a critical condition in hospital. Continue reading...

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35 h. ago School knife rampage in France leaves one girl dead and three other children fighting for life

A student armed with a knife launched the attack at the private Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides high school in Doulon area of Nantes on Thursday afternoon.

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35 h. ago One person dead in France school stabbing with at least three others injured

The horror unfolded at Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides private school in Nantes before the alleged attacker was restrained by a member of staff until police arrived.

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35 h. ago Student killed and three injured in stabbing attack at French high school

Fifteen-year-old student arrested after incident at Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides school near NantesA student at a French high school stabbed four other students at his school on Thursday, killing at least one and injuring three others before being arrested, police said.The circumstances of the attack were not immediately clear. A national police official said it had taken place at the private Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides high school in Nantes on the Atlantic coast. Continue reading...

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36 h. ago School knife rampage in France leaves one student dead and multiple children seriously injured

A student armed with a knife launched the attack at the private Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides high school in Doulon area of Nantes on Thursday afternoon.

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36 h. ago Ayrshire school claims VAT on private school fees is a 'disincentive' to parents

Wellington School in Ayr, Ayrshire's only private school, returned to "a relatively small" profit the year before VAT was introduced on school fees.

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36 h. ago Nantes school stabbing: One dead and at least three reported injured in France attack

The attack took place at the Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides private school in Nantes, France this morning saw several people reportedly stabbed by a fellow pupil and one has died

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53 h. ago Danny Dyer says despite him being 'proudly working class' his kids have NEVER travelled on a bus and always go 'door to door' in a £200K Bentley

The actor, 47, gets a grilling about claims he sent his son to private school in ITV 's new show The Assembly.

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56 h. ago French PM’s daughter says she was brutally beaten at scandal

François Bayrou faces questions over what he knew about school at centre of allegations of decades of abuseThe daughter of the French prime minister, François Bayrou, has said she was brutally beaten at a private Catholic school at the centre of a growing sexual abuse scandal that has shocked France.Hélène Perlant, 53, told Paris Match that a senior priest at Notre-Dame de Bétharram beat her in front of her peers during a summer camp in the 1980s, when she was 14, but said she had never told Bayrou. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago It’s official: 6 of the UK’s best private prep schools are near London

It’s official: 6 of the UK’s best private prep schools are near London  Time Out

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6 d. ago Huge schools change this week to save parents £450 is 'something the Tories would never do'

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson told the Mirror the Tories' only idea is giving private schools their tax breaks back - on the eve of free breakfast clubs opening at schools across England

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8 d. ago Foreign students sue Trump officials over revoked visas as 1,000 affected

Actions by state department to terminate students’ legal status place them at risk of deportation and detentionUS politics live – latest updatesSeveral international students who have had their visas revoked in recent weeks have filed lawsuits against the Trump administration, arguing the government denied them due process when it suddenly took away their permission to be in the US.The actions by the federal government to terminate students’ legal status have left hundreds of scholars at risk of detention and deportation. Their schools range from private universities such as Harvard and Stanford to large public institutions such as the University of Maryland and Ohio State University, to some small liberal arts colleges. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Donald Trump calls Harvard a ‘joke’ and says it should be stripped of funds – US politics live

President says university should lose government research contracts after it refused demands to accept outside political supervisionSeveral international students who have had their visas revoked in recent weeks have filed lawsuits against the Trump administration, arguing the government denied them due process when it suddenly took away their permission to be in the US. The actions by the federal government to terminate students’ legal status have left hundreds of scholars at risk of detention and deportation. Their schools range from private universities like Harvard and Stanford to large public institutions like the University of Maryland and Ohio State University to some small liberal arts colleges. At least 901 students at 128 colleges and universities have had their visas revoked or their legal status terminated since mid-March, according to an Associated Press (AP) review of university statements and correspondence with school officials. In lawsuits against the Department of ...

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9 d. ago The Penguin Lessons review – Steve Coogan seabird comedy drama tries to sell feelgood mood

Coogan does his best, but there’s a tonal mismatch here: the animal-teaches-lonely-human narrative jars with a depiction of lives in totalitarian ArgentinaHere is a well-meaning, awkward tonal jumble of a movie, based on the bestselling memoir by former teacher Tom Michell; it is a quirky true-story heart warmer, in which an adorable penguin is apparently supposed to redeem not merely the human hero’s personal heartbreak but maybe even the agony of Argentina during the 70s junta. It stars Steve Coogan, who has often in the past shown brilliant technique as a straight actor, and in Philomena with Judi Dench proved he is perfectly capable of carrying an un-ironised emotional story. But his performance here is bafflingly underpowered and opaque, as if he is slightly perplexed by the script he’s been given.Coogan plays Tom, who takes a job in Peronist Argentina in 1976, teaching English at a stuffy private school for the sons of wealthy expatriates, and is wary of the overbearing headte...

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1 week ago Mobile phone ban helps top private school become first in Scotland to win prestigious status

Famous boarding school now drawing up plans to become a ‘research hub’

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1 week ago Young student loses her doctor parents and both her siblings in horror private plane crash that killed six

A high school senior lost her entire immediate family in a horror private jet crash that killed six in upstate New York.

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1 week ago Scottish private school announces parents can pay fees using Bitcoin

Boarding school is thought to be the first in the UK to accept the cryptocurrency

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1 week ago Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle is accused of 'acting outrageously' over legal challenge to report on special educational needs pupils affected by Labour government's private schools VAT hike

The Government launched an 'opportunistic' 11th hour bid to rule out key evidence at the end of the recent landmark judicial review into the controversial tax.

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1 week ago Expelled! review – deliciously daft private school murder mystery

(Inkle; Nintendo Switch, iPhone/iPad, Mac, PC)Prove that Verity Amersham is innocent of trying to bump off the head girl in this ingenious whodunnit from the makers of Overboard!There’s been a murder – or an attempted one, at least. At sunrise someone shoved Louisa Hardcastle, soon to be crowned head girl of Miss Mulligatawney’s School for Promising Girls, through the school’s stained-glass window. Your character, Verity Amersham, stands accused, and must present an account of her day that proves her innocence. This is achieved via a Groundhog Day structure: you repeatedly play through the hours leading up to Verity’s expulsion as an interactive flashback, from the moment she woke, through to attending chapel and classes, and the accusation on which the story pivots. There’s no magic involved: you’re simply recounting the day’s events to your concerned father as you construct your alibi, establish whether Verity committed the crime – or if not, by whom she has been framed.Developed ...

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2 w. ago Most of the families applying for Alabama's new school vouchers have kids in non

More than half of families who applied for Alabama’s new school voucher program have children attending a private school or are home schooling

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