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• Rock-dropping seagull closes university building

  15-04-2025 20:23 via bbc.com
  The Blavatnik School of Government is closed for almost a week to fix damage caused by the bird.
  
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• How Harvard’s pushback against Trump may embolden more US resistance

  15-04-2025 19:51 via theguardian.com
  It may be a turning point in the White House’s attempt to gut allegedly liberal universities and punish law firmsIt might come to be seen as the moment the “woke liberal empire” of Donald Trump’s most fevered imaginings struck back.Harvard University, the world-renowned institution emblematic of the elitism that Trump and his coterie hold in contempt, received an extortive demand from the administration that it surrender the core of its academic freedoms – and promp
  
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• Wealthiest English private schools spend below 6% on means-tested bursaries, research finds

  15-04-2025 19:50 via theguardian.com
  Data shows 200 independent schools devote fraction of fee income to support disadvantaged pupils based on family incomeEngland’s wealthiest private schools devote only a fraction of their income towards means-tested bursaries, according to research that undermines claims that adding VAT to school fees would decimate support for poorer pupils.The Private Education Policy Forum (PEPF), a thinktank campaigning for greater equality and transparency among independent schools, gathered data from
  
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• Farage clashes with teaching union over 'far right' claim

  15-04-2025 19:31 via bbc.com
  National Education Union members call for funds to be used to help campaign against Reform UK candidates.
  
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• Teachers in England move a step closer to striking

  15-04-2025 16:08 via bbc.com
  Union members will vote on whether or not to strike if the government stands by its pay offer.
  
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• Report the death or serious harm of a child or care leaver

  15-04-2025 11:26 via gov.uk
  
  How local authorities should report incidents to the Department for Education, Ofsted and Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.
  
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• To understand this government, look at who it bailed out – and the flailing UK sector it didn’t | Gaby Hinsliff

  15-04-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Universities, a key plank of our economy, face a bonfire of jobs. But are they the jobs Starmer wants to be seen to be saving?It’s hard to get romantic about the death of office jobs.Nobody waxes lyrical about the glory days of working in payroll, and Bruce Springsteen doesn’t fill stadiums with soaring anthems about middle management headcount. But whether the recipient’s collar is white or blue, getting made redundant is getting made redundant, and it hurts.Gaby Hinsliff is a
  
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• Trump freezes $2bn in Harvard funding after university rejects demands

  15-04-2025 04:12 via bbc.com
  
  The White House sent a sweeping list of requirements to the university last week, which it said were aimed at fighting antisemitism.
  
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