We’d like to hear from parents and teachers about the drive to vaccinate 12- to 15-year-oldsSenior doctors have urged secondary school children to consider getting vaccinated against Covid after the death of a healthy 15-year-old girl highlighted that …
Did you solve it? Another game of brutal genius from South Korea
The solutions to today’s puzzlesEarlier today I set you the following puzzles, designed by the South Korean puzzle master Han Dongkyu. The first two are a slow build up to what is one of the most fiendishly brilliant geometrical puzzles I have ever see…
Indian edtech giant Byju’s valued at $18 billion in new funding
Byju’s has raised about $300 million as part of a larger round of new investment as the Indian edtech giant focuses on expanding its international business and aggressively explores merger and acquisition opportunities. A filing, supplied to TechCrunch by research firm Tofler, showed that the new investment values the startup at $18 billion, up from […]
Linguists Lament Slang Ban In London School
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A London secondary school is trying to stop its pupils from using “basically” at the beginning of sentences and deploying phrases such as “oh my days” in a crackdown on “fillers” and “slang” in the…
California Becomes First State To Require Covid-19 Vaccination For Students
skam240 writes: California has just become the first state to add Covid-19 vaccination to its list of required vaccines for in-school attendance. “The requirement will go into effect at the start of the term that follows the FDA’s full approval for tha…
It’s spooky season for the Biden agenda
High drama on Capitol Hill this week as the slim Democratic majority struggles over President Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan. On one side: the $1 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework (BIF!), exhaustively hashed out this summer by a cross-part…
The pandemic ought to be the turning point in the debate about private schools | Frances Ryan
The gulf in provision for private and state pupils has never been starker. Who can doubt now that they entrench privilege?Keir Starmer’s pledge earlier this week to end the lucrative tax breaks given to private schools has predictably brought out the u…
‘I’ll never go back’: Uganda’s schools at risk as teachers find new work during Covid
Many private schools may not reopen after staff laid off during lockdown say they will not return to the professionThe last message Mary Namitala received from the private school in which she taught was in March last year, the day all schools in Uganda…
How Lincoln University regenerated the east Midlands city
Could the benefits seen in Lincoln since the university’s inception be replicated in similar areas?When the University of Lincoln was first built on a derelict rail goods yard, it’s said that one of its buildings was designed to be converted into a sh…
Architect of £9,000 tuition fees calls for faster loan repayments
David Willetts says taxpayers footing too much of the bill for university students’ unpaid loansThe government should build universities in places such as Blackpool to help regenerate local economies, and boost higher education funding by making gradua…