The University of Melbourne cancelled classes for thousands of students in response to a pro-Palestine encampment and rally. A large crowd, including some staff members, gathered outside as police arrived to monitor the situation. Guardian Australia understands 6,500 students have been affected by class disruptions after the rally that filled the university's Arts West building on Thursday.
Holly Pope* is absolutely furious. And in total despair – about what on earth she’s going to tell her daughter Emily if Labour gets into power in July.
I thought I had the impending “VAT raid on private schools” problem nailed. And what a godsend because the debates at home about what savings and sacrifices we would have to make to be able to afford the 20 per cent hike in fees were not going well. “Over my dead body am I giving up my Peloton subscription!”/”I shall certainly not be drinking Schweppes tonic with my Fishers gin”/”Val Thorens? It’s Verbier or nowhere!”
These days, Tennessee middle school student Aubrey Sauvie, 12, who was born with no hands, says she can bang on her drums as hard or fast as she wants.
This letter was sent from Lucy Charles, a mother who was suddenly faced with pulling her daughter out of her private school after her ex-husband decided to stop paying his share of the school fees. The Sussex boarding school offered her a lifeline, a 70pc bursary, worth £35,000 per year. Now, Ms Charles worries that due to Labour’s VAT raid on private schools, other children won’t be so fortunate.
The latest controversy involving the administrators comes after the university president faced heavy scrutiny over her handling of the student protests over the Israel-Gaza war
A school for pupils with "severe or complex needs" has been given the go-ahead to transform one of its three sites.
A pro-Palestinian protest held outside a Los Angeles synagogue devolved into chaotic street violence with pro-Israel counter-protesters on Sunday in an incident that several officials, including President Joe Biden, criticized as antisemitic.
Virginia “Ginger” Hislop, 105, recently walked the stage at Stanford University to receive her master’s degree in education for coursework she completed in 1941.
‘Horrible and pernicious’ is how Labour’s plans to tax private school fees have been described by the education secretary on a visit to Reading.
Primary schools headteachers have written to parents asking them not to give smartphones to their children amid fears for their mental health.
Louisiana has triggered a national controversy with a new law mandating that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public classrooms. The law signed by the state’s GOP governor has been blasted by civil liberties groups, which argue it infringes on the rights of students and blatantly ignores the separation of church and state. The…
Labour's Monmouthshire candidate defends private schools VAT plan
Gislingham Church of England Primary School has been handed a good Ofsted rating following a recent inspection.
New railings are set to be installed at All Saints RC School in York to stop racegoers using its grounds to relieve themselves.
Teenagers across the Gaza Strip should have been taking their final exams this month, a last hurdle before university and lifelong dreams, but the war in the Palestinian territory has crushed those hopes.According to the education ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, 85 percent of educational facilities in the territory are out of service because of the war.
A SOUTH Essex academy trust which has been credited with helping schools excel is celebrating after eight of their team bagged national awards
Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said she wanted to stop the issue being a ‘political football’.
The protesters are angry as many of the hostages who were taken to Gaza are still captive and some of them are presumed dead.
Thousands of children with special needs in Scotland will be hit by Labour’s tax raid on private schools, The Telegraph can reveal.
Kenya's President William Ruto said Sunday that he was ready for "a conversation" with thousands of "peaceful" young anti-tax protesters, prompting new calls from the movement's organisers to accept their demand to cancel the levies.A protest organiser, Hanifa Adan, who told AFP that she was in hiding to avoid arrest, said Ruto needed to "respond publicly" to demands that the proposed hikes be cancelled.
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