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• Languages and creative arts losing favour with GCSE and A-level students

  01-06-2023 17:31
  
  More vocational subjects such as computing and business preferred by those studying in EnglandLanguages and the creative arts are falling out of favour among GCSE and A-level students, who are increasingly opting for more vocational subjects such as computing and business studies.Provisional figures for England show exam entries for German have fallen by 17% for A-level students and 6% for GCSE studies, while Spanish and French have fallen 13% at A-level, although there has been a 5% increase fo
  
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• England’s ‘free speech tsar’ named in announcement to one newspaper

  01-06-2023 15:51
  
  Government accused of paying ‘lip service’ to free speech as Arif Ahmed is given higher education roleA Cambridge philosophy professor is to become the government’s first “free speech tsar” for higher education in England, it has been revealed, in an announcement made initially only to one newspaper – a move that led critics to accuse ministers of paying “lip service” to free speech.Arif Ahmed told the Times he hoped to use his role to stand up for
  
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• Free-speech tsar Arif Ahmed set to defend all views

  01-06-2023 15:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Free speech and academic freedom in universities are facing "urgent threats", Prof Arif Ahmed says.
  
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• Press release: University Freedom of Speech Bill becomes law

  01-06-2023 12:03 via gov.uk
  
  Landmark legislation will ensure universities protect and promote freedom of speech on campus, fulfilling a manifesto promise to bolster academic freedom.
  
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• ‘To the class of 2023, I say three words: you poor bastards’: the year’s best graduation speeches

  01-06-2023 07:00
  
  Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks and Karine Jean-Pierre deliver words of wisdom at commencement ceremonies across USIt’s been a typical commencement season across the US, with luminaries from the worlds of journalism, Hollywood and politics offering students the wisdom of their experience. The tradition stretches back over a century, and some of the most famous speeches in US history – from George C Marshall’s revealing of what would become known as the Marshall Plan to David Foster Wa
  
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• The backlash: how slavery research came under fire

  01-06-2023 07:00
  
  • Read more in this series: Cotton CapitalMore and more institutions are commissioning investigations into their historical links to slavery – but the fallout at one Cambridge college suggeststhese projects are meeting growing resistanceWhen the historian Nicolas Bell-Romero started a job researching Cambridge University’s past links to transatlantic slavery three years ago, he did not expect to be pilloried in the national press by anonymous dons as “a ‘woke activis
  
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• China’s 11.6m graduates face a jobs market with no jobs

  01-06-2023 01:01
  
  With youth unemployment at a record high, the problem of overeducated young people is acuteWith a master’s degree in applied linguistics from one of Australia’s top universities, Ingrid Xie did not expect to end up working in a grocery store. But that was where she ended up after graduating from the University of Queensland in July last year.Xie did her undergraduate degree in China, studying English in the shade of palm trees at Hainan Tropical Ocean University. She went abroad for
  
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