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    Trump official threatens Harvard foreign student admissions as more universities rally in support

    Kristi Noem demands university’s records on foreign students’ ‘illegal’ activities while president threatens to strip it of tax-exempt status
  • A group of primary school students in red uniforms sitting in class, shot from the back

    A third of UK school staff report ‘physical underdevelopment’ in poor students

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    US universities’ faculty unite to defend academic freedom after Trump’s attacks

  • In Sweden, I got paid time off to settle my child at school. Here’s why I want US families to have the same right

  • The mysterious firing of a Chinese professor has Asian students on edge: ‘Brings chills to our spines’

  • Trump sues Maine over transgender athletes in schools amid funding threats

  • Trump-style book censorship is spreading – just ask British librarians

    Alison Hicks
  • How Harvard’s pushback against Trump may embolden more US resistance

  • Wealthiest English private schools spend below 6% on means-tested bursaries, research finds

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In depth

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    Harvard faculty organize amid anxiety university will capitulate to Trump

  • Secondary school pupils moving by a window in a school UK, blurred movement

    ‘They will consider prosecuting me’: parents on why their children are missing school – and the consequences

    Many say absence is due to England’s mainstream schools being unable to meet needs of neurodivergent pupils
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    A scholar and a hater: new podcast focuses on historical figures that suck

    Claire Aubin’s podcast This Guy Sucked explores the viler actions of ‘great men’ for a more holistic view of history
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Opinion

  • Gaby Hinsliff

    To understand this government, look at who it bailed out – and the flailing UK sector it didn’t

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • Polly Toynbee

    Trump is pushing students towards Britain – ministers, don’t let your immigration obsession stand in the way

    Polly Toynbee
  • Andrew Graham

    Academic freedom in the US is under threat – universities of the world, unite!

    Andrew Graham
  • Zoe Williams

    Oh, the terrible guilt of enjoying time off in the sun, when my teenager’s up to her neck in GCSEs

    Zoe Williams
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