Are dads on shared parental leave getting a fair deal?
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Shared parental leave does not promote shared parenting.
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Zuckerburg wants to plough billions into personalised learning, but his way may not be the right way.
Students in California protest in solidarity with those in Missouri in a wave of #StudentBlackOut protests across the US.
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Subtly racist behaviour impacts heavily on the career trajectories of black and minority ethnic academics.
Compulsory lessons for modern Britain.
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A new report has set out a vision of diversity for British schools – including repeal of the law for compulsory Christian assembly.
Look what everybody is yakking about.
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A new social media platform has taken universities by storm. But academics and students need guidance on how to use it.
Mourners outside the Bataclan in Paris after the 13 November attacks.
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We must improve religious literacy among politicians. They should look to universities for more insight.
On average, more pupils in the South get five A*-C grades at GCSE than the North or Midlands.
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Can schools in the North and Midlands replicate the success of those in the South of England?
Time to have the conversation.
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Young people with muscular and genetic disorders are living longer and should have good sex education too.
A video with historian David Starkey was removed from the University of Cambridge website.
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In defence of the campaign by students and lecturers at Cambridge for the university to take down a promotional video featuring the controversial historian.
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A third of adults in the OECD now have a university degree.
Making the case for state funding of universities.
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As budgets get squeezed, universities are fighting to prove their worth.
Thinking differently about comparing education systems.
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An alternative way to look at who comes where in PISA tests – and the results are surprising.
Where in the UK do students get the most support for going to university?
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Welsh and Scottish students get more support than English and Northern Irish ones.
Not a good time to be a boy.
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White boys from poorer backgrounds repeatedly come up worst when it comes to attainment.
‘Ready for lift-off’
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Scotland is threatening a positive-discrimination policy for making access to universities more equal. While its central argument is right, there’s more to this than meets the eye.
Corporal punishment is practiced by schools in many parts of the world.
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Hitting young children affects their grades as they grow up.
What you eat matters.
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Eating breakfast is associated with higher grades in English, maths and science.
Should Humanism be a core part of the syllabus?
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To include Humanism as one of six core religions to study, would do it an injustice.
What do young people think about speaking Welsh?
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Less than half of teenagers fluent in Welsh think they’ll go on to speak it as adults.
Religion is always in the background.
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Secularism must be part of the debate about religion, not the end of the debate.
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A systematic review of 199 international studies suggests that arts education remains a moot point.
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There’s a surprising amount of resistance to making policing a graduate profession.
Ever evolving.
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The future is one of multiple Englishes.
How will regulation be tied to funding in future?
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A new government green paper has proposed a raft of reforms for regulating higher education.
The best teachers will now be highly sought after.
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The government has unveiled proposals for a new system to reward universities for excellent teaching.