education
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UK universities urged to tackle rising tide of antisemitism on campusAcademics and student representatives voice concern at widespread incidents that are fuelling anxiety among Jewish students
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University league tables 2017Guardian University Guide 2017: Find a course at a UK university with our complete university league tables
news
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Inadequate sex education creating 'health time bomb'‘Shockingly high’ numbers of STI diagnoses prompt councils to call for compulsory sex education in UK secondary schools
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Utah rejects sex education bill, so porn site redirects to instructional videosUtah visitors to xHamster are being given the option to watch educational videos after legislators rejected classes in school, including consent and contraception
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The 10 best cities in the world to be a student 2017 – in picturesUniversity experts QS have released their annual student cities rankings, based on criteria including affordability, student experience, job prospects and friendliness to international students
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'I wouldn't have done this at 18': why I switched to a nursing degreeIt takes a special kind of motivation to become a nurse. Postgrad students explain why they made the move
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in depth
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Should parents have to pay fees – for a state school education?As more cash-strapped headteachers ask families to contribute money for essentials, some wonder why their taxes don’t cover it
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Sixty ‘orphan’ schools shunned by academy sponsorsWould-be sponsors are fighting shy of schools with a poor Ofsted rating or financial difficulties, tearing a hole in the government’s flagship academy policy
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Class of '91: Obama and Gorsuch rubbed shoulders at Harvard, but their paths splitContemporaries of Barack Obama and Trump’s supreme court nominee recall two brilliant minds that ultimately went in different ideological directions
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Who's afraid of private universities?Traditional universities and the House of Lords are, for a start. Do they have a point, or are they simply clinging to an outdated system that desperately needs reform?
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I lost my job in academia after having a baby – now I'm stuckI was made redundant following childbirth. I feel discriminated against and worry I won’t find another job
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Want your class to go green? These apps will get them hookedTechnology can help turn your classroom into a dripping rainforest, a smoggy city or an underwater shipwreck
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Secret Teacher: giving students wifi has made lessons chaoticTechnology is useful for learners, but the school leadership team shouldn’t have introduced wifi without asking teachers
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global view
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Devastating impact of meth in the womb exposed in South African schoolsExtent of crisis becomes clear as children of women caught up in tik epidemic struggle with hyperactivity and aggression
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Zhou Youguang obituaryChinese scholar whose western alphabet system advanced literacy and comprehension between speakers of different languages
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Theresa May knows her MachiavelliLetters: Since Mrs May attended a grammar school, as I did in Scotland, around the same time, she surely had opportunities for some classical education
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Chinese school allows students to borrow marks from 'grade bank' to pass testsStudents must repay their borrowed marks with even higher scores on a future exams or earn credits with extra work
opinion
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The résumé is dead: your next click might determine your next jobThe argument about whether robots will take our jobs is irrelevant: workforce science and data aggregation have already changed how we find work
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A regime of cramming and testing is crushing young people’s instinct to learn and destroying their futureIn an age of robots, schools are teaching our children to be redundant
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Early intervention: charities' vital role in supporting children's mental healthWorking with younger children, we know how important it is to address wellbeing in primary schools and alleviate pressure on struggling NHS services
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University is still a white middle-class affair – it’s not just CambridgeLike me, many students from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds experience education differently thanks to institutional assumptions about intelligence
Secret Teacher: our 'perfect' school is just keeping up appearances