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• Outrage over UK university’s plan to cut African history course and its professor

  23-07-2023 17:00
  
  University of Chichester proposes redundancy for Hakim Adi, first Briton of African heritage to become a professor of history in UKA university has come under fire for proposing to make the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK redundant and cut the course he runs.Prof Hakim Adi, an academic and expert in the history of Africa and the African diaspora is at risk of termination by the University of Chichester, which has suspended all recruitment to th
  
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• It won’t cost much to make free school meals a universal right | Larry Elliott

  23-07-2023 11:25
  
  A new push to offer free school meals across the globe won’t end world hunger but it’s a very good startDuring the pandemic the Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford turned food into a hot political issue in the UK with his campaign for every child in a low-income family to be guaranteed a free school meal.Since then, things have moved on. The problems facing low-income families – not just in Britain but everywhere – have worsened owing to rising global food prices
  
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• If the Tory degree plan is dopey, look who’s selling it | Stewart Lee

  23-07-2023 11:00
  
  Those charged with explaining the policy had been sent into the field without any clear idea of what the word ‘good’ actually meantOn Monday, as part of their ongoing fabricated culture war, a desperate Conservative government declared an incoherent assault on “rip-off” degrees. But there is no one left in the duffer-stuffed Conservative government clever enough to defend the idiotic soundbite that is “Crackdown on Mickey Mouse degrees!” And hasn’t Micke
  
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• Think small: that’s Sunak’s advice to poor kids dreaming of university | Martha Gill

  23-07-2023 08:02
  
  The PM nudges some young people towards apprenticeships, suggesting their minds need no expansionWhat is university for? Is it there to enrich our lives – to round us out as human beings – or is it there, primarily, to get us better jobs? The consensus on this seems to swing rather wildly depending on precisely which group of potential students we happen to be talking about.News that a traditional humanities subject is on the decline, for example, tends to prompt us towards the first
  
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• Childcare shortage warning as childminders quit

  23-07-2023 03:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A fifth of childminders in England have left the sector in the last three years.
  
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• NSW public schools are in disrepair but capital works funding is failing to materialise

  23-07-2023 03:00
  
  A decade after the Gonski review said governments should boost school spending, the divide between public and private has only widenedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWhen a pitch for state funding for his daughter’s high school in Sydney’s north was accepted, James Wiggins thought he would finally see the dilapidated school redeveloped, and it would begin to claw back dwindling enrolments.It was hoped the money would, to name a few items off t
  
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