Education News
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| Women Take Longer to Repay Student Loans Women graduates face 16 years of student debt while men can expect to settle the bill for their education within 11 years,... |
University Denies Tenure to Outspoken Holocaust Academic Political scientist loses bid after four to three vote - Rancour lives on in Jewish and academic worlds |
| Teacher to Get Retrial Over Internet Porn Woman convicted of letting pupils see sex ads - Ruling follows campaign by computer experts |
US Teacher Faces Retrial Over Web Porn in Class A Connecticut judge today ordered a retrial of a schoolteacher found guilty on computer pornography charges after a... |
| Teacher to Get Retrial Over Internet Porn Woman convicted of letting pupils see sex ads - Ruling follows campaign by computer experts |
Oxford Dictionary Botch Sparks Anger in Bangalore Oxford University Press has been forced to suspend the sale of one of its dictionaries after a reference to the city of... |
| Mary Howell-pryce Obituary: The teacher, pianist and harpsichordist Mary Howell-Pryce, who has died aged 77, will be remembered with... |
Philip Collins Obituary: Academic whose books and lectures helped restore the reputation of Charles Dickens. |
| From Aardvark to Zorilla, Noah's Ark Project Team Plans to Catalogue All Life on Earth Encyclopaedia will be freely available on internet - All aspects of 1.8 million species will be described |
Creationists Defeated in Kansas School Vote on Science Teaching Guidelines challenging Darwinism banned - Decision is latest blow to intelligent design activists |
| Gender Battle Goes On, Says First Female Harvard President Harvard University's first female president, the historian Drew Gilpin Faust, told a press conference yesterday she hoped... |
ESP Lab Sees Doors Close A laboratory dedicated to extra-sensory perception and telekinesis at the prestigious Princeton University in New Jersey is... |
| Harvard to Name First Woman President Harvard University, whose last president was forced out two years ago amid charges of sexism, is about to name a woman... |
Dick Tahta Obituary: A maths teacher with gusto, he inspired the schoolboy Hawking. |
| Cheating Charge - in University Ethics Exam Columbia faces inquiry into journalism course - Students told to attend meeting, or be failed |
US University Sued for Return of 'misused' £750m Endowment American universities are closely watching a legal action in New Jersey that could determine whether they continue to have... |
| British Isles to Disappear From the School Map The British Isles will soon be erased from geography text books in Ireland. Folens, a publisher in the republic, has... |
India's E-tutors Give Uk Children Homework Help Call centres charge £50 a month for unlimited individual help to pupils thousands of miles away. |
| Ding-dong Averted As Russia's Sacred Bells Head Home From Us Seventeen Russian bells which hang in a Harvard University tower are destined to return to their spiritual home near Moscow... |
Oprah Chooses Pupils for Namesake School Oprah Winfrey used her talkshow tactic of springing surprises on her audiences at the weekend, when she told 73 girls who... |
| Chatrooms May Be Banned in Us Schools to Combat Sexual Predators · Bill seeks to limit MySpace and other websites · Opponents say proposed law casts the net too wide |
Schools Ban Dictionary of Slang The author of what has been described as the definitive dictionary of slang is gobsmacked, gutted, throwing up bunches,... |
| University Challenge: Give Up Smoking or Forfeit Right to Degree North Korean students who enjoy a cigarette will find the doors to universities slammed in their faces after the communist... |
US Students Take to Their Tents in Protest Over Funding A series of student campsites have sprung up on American campuses this week, combining protests against funding cuts and... |
| Brain Drain 'damaging' African Higher Education The migration of academics from Africa to universities in Europe and the US is having a damaging effect on the continent's... |
Students Take Jobs Protest to Elite Paris College Around 200 students invaded one of Paris's most elite colleges last night, clashing with riot police as protests... |
| Obituary: Janet Cockerill Educationalist and provider of a fresh start for many women. |
Universities Criticise Technology Institute Plans Plans to set up a flagship European Institute of Technology are poorly thought-out and will produce a "costly white... |
| European Institute 'to Rival Mit' Europe will today attempt to take a major step towards competing with the US when the European commission unveils plans to... |
Harvard Chief Resigns Amid Rifts and Rebellion · Comments about women and maths sped downfall · Abrasive attitude masked successes at university |
| Harvard President May Face No Confidence Vote The governing board of Harvard University is considering asking its beleaguered president, Lawrence Summers, to step down... |
School Board Delivers Blow to Creationism Ohio's board of education handed an important victory to proponents of evolution yesterday, throwing out a model biology... |
| VSO Focuses on Senior Teachers The international development charity VSO announced today that it was no longer recruiting newly qualified teachers for... |
Papa's Cuban Life Unfurled for British Academic A lecturer from the University of Wales has been granted access to the unpublished archive of Ernest Hemingway's life in... |
| Bush Promises to Improve Visa Policy for Overseas Students The US president, George Bush, has promised university heads that his government will do more to make the country... |
US College Summit to Tackle Drop in Foreign Students American university presidents are to meet with state officials in Washington to discuss how colleges in the United States... |
| US Schoolboy to Reveal Details of Trip to Iraq The Florida teenager who travelled to Iraq to help research a school project was expected yesterday to share further... |
Oldest Schoolteacher Finally Calls It a Day at 102 At 102 years of age, a dodgy hip and respiratory problems might be considered par for the course. |
| Court Defeat Fails to Deter Intelligent Design Backers Proponents of "intelligent design" vowed yesterday to continue their battle against the teaching of evolution in... |
US Judge Bans Intelligent Design From Science Lessons · Victory for parents on teaching of evolution · Theory ruled to be religion by the back door |
| 'Without Education There's No Hope. Without Books There's No Education' This Christmas, Observer readers can make a difference to the lives of millions of people by doing a very simple thing -... |
Harvard President at the Centre of Controversy Once Again Professors at Harvard have circulated an email criticising "backbiting" by the university's controversial... |
| Schools in Kansas to Challenge Darwinism · State definition of science will include supernatural · Pennsylvania town fights back at 'intelligent design' |
Obituary: Ted Wragg Education guru whose ideas were embraced by teachers and energised our schools. |
| Voters Oust Us School Board That Backed Intelligent Design The Pennsylvanian school board attempting to introduce the teaching of intelligent design was yesterday ousted in local... |
Liverpool to Establish Chinese University The University of Liverpool is setting up a new university in China in a joint venture with Xi'an Jiaotong University, it... |
| Protests at Yale Over Sacking of Rebel Professor An anarchist anthropology professor described as one of the brightest minds in his field has become a cause célèbre for... |
UK Academic Gives Evidence in Intelligent Design Case A British academic told a US federal court yesterday that the theory of intelligent design is a scientific rather than a... |
| University to Podcast Course Content Stanford University in California is to make its course content available on iTunes, the university has announced. |
Intelligent Design Opponents Invoke Us Constitution As a landmark court case continues over the teaching of 'intelligent design' in US schools, the University of California... |
| Proms: Overpriced, Oversexed, or Just Over? School cancels iconic event, complaining of rampant consumerism. |
US School's Evolution Teaching Goes on Trial A new front opens today in the ongoing battle between religion and science when a Pennsylvania court hears the opening... |
| Inside the Best School in the World Shorter days in class, long holidays, respect for teachers: it's the formula for excellence. |
African Countries Pledge to Improve Rural Education Officials from 11 African countries today pledged to make education in rural areas a top priority in their efforts to meet... |
| Cambridge Climbs to Second in World University Rankings Cambridge has moved from third to second in a world ranking of universities based on research prowess. Harvard remains the... |
Harvard Denies Study is a Response to Creationism Harvard University today dismissed reports that it was stepping into the politically charged debate about the origins of... |
| Impostors Prosper in Russian Exam Scam A new breed of double agent is subverting Russia's exam system: the surrogate student who's paid to sit your test. |
Cheats Hit Russian Colleges The heads of some of Russia's most prestigious educational establishments have admitted that students use surrogates to... |
| Driving Schools Teach How to Cheat Spaniards may be banned from using mobile phones while they drive, but up to 12,000 of them have found they are perfect for... |
Michael Moore Sets Up 'hellraiser' Scholarship The filmmaker Michael Moore establishes scholarship for students who defy the university that cancelled his talk last year. |
| French Angry at Law to Teach Glory of Colonialism More than 1,000 historians, writers and intellectuals have signed a petition demanding the repeal of a new law requiring... |
School Warns: Hit Your Son or He's Out A six-year-old boy was suspended from a Christian school near Chicago last week after his mother refused to hit him for... |
| Harvard President Keeps Post Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard who sparked outrage by claiming men held a biological advantage over women in... |
Dictionary of French Administrative Terms Published France's mighty bureaucracy has acknowledged the havoc wreaked by the near-total impenetrability of the language it uses by... |
| Catholic University Offers Classes in Satanism The Vatican's exorcism rule book warns priests the devil "goes around like a roaring lion looking for souls to... |
Harvard President Threatened With Academic Revolt Staff angry at comments on women in science. Harvard University suffered a rebellion in the faculty ranks yesterday as some... |
| German States End Era of Free Study Germany's higher education system was last night heading for its biggest shakeup in decades after the country's supreme... |
Why Women Are Poor at Science, By Harvard President The president of Harvard University has provoked a furore by arguing that men outperform women in maths and sciences... |
| Georgia Schools to Remove Creationist Stickers From Textbooks A US federal judge has ordered a Georgian school district to remove stickers from its science textbooks which declared that... |
US School in Eye of Creationist Storm The battle over attempts to introduce a version of creationism into the curriculum of American schools has become focused... |
| Medieval Mural's Tales of Sorcery A mural which has come to light in Tuscany has been identified by a British university lecturer as the earliest surviving... |
Anti-Darwinians Step Up Challenge in School Crusade Evangelicals take evolution fight to Supreme Court. Jeff Brown is a passionate defender of the borough where he lives. Dover... |
| Best Schools Are in Finland and the Far East Finnish teenagers today topped the most rigorous global poll of education standards. |
University Uproar Over Heiress Who 'cheated' US college withdraws offer to name sports arena after Wal-Mart daughter who paid fellow student £10,000 to write coursework. |
| Mandarin Chinese Speaks Volumes in Giving the Young an Ear for Music Scientists have discovered an unusual tip for parents who want their little darlings to grow up to be musical geniuses -... |
Sam Wollaston on China's Sports Schools China's sports schools take thousands of very young children and groom them for glory. In four years' time, it should be... |
| Evolution Textbooks Row Goes to Court A suburban American school board found itself in court yesterday after it tried to placate Christian fundamentalist parents... |
Germans Try to Lure British Teachers Away From Nazi Image of History Rare 'freebie' brings night at the opera and penthouse suite. Sitting on a stool in one of Berlin's most expensive Italian... |
| Sun's Awry in the Japanese Cosmos They may live in the land of the rising sun, but that doesn't mean they know anything about it. According to a survey by... |
A Degree in Bullying and Self-interest? No Thanks The decline of American studies reveals our increasing dislike of the US. Turn to the Guardian's university clearing pages... |
| High-flying Schools Must Think Small Studies here and in America show that size really does matter. Here's a wondrous dislocation. Our prime minister and... |
Saudi Textbooks 'demonise West' Saudi schoolchildren are being taught to disparage Christianity and Judaism in a textbook issued by the education ministry,... |
| Schools Cannot Be Allowed to Choose Their Own Pupils Labour can rise above the Tories by ensuring a fair admissions system. This is education week, as Tony Blair draws up the... |
Indian School Textbooks to Be Scrapped Because of Anti Muslim Bias India's new government is poised to rewrite the history taught to the nation's schoolchildren after a panel of eminent... |
| Sex Scandal Rocks Italian Campus Italian professor acquitted after 19 videos were passed to newspapers. For the ageing university professor, his success... |
Catalonia to Put Condom Vending Machines in Schools Schools in Spain are to defy the rulings of the Roman Catholic church by installing condom vending machines in an attempt... |
| Italian Police Smash School Exam Scam A decent collection of A-levels or a baccalaureate can cost, if not blood, then certainly sweat and tears. But in Italy an... |
Skeletons in the Closet While at Yale University, both John Kerry and George Bush joined an elite secret society, the Order of Skull and Bones. How... |
| Fifty Years On, Segregation Still Blights Us Schools In May 1954, American schools were ordered to teach black and white students together. One pupil who was at the sharp end... |
Take Two: Steven Schwartz and David Frost Debate University Access Steven Schwartz and David Frost debate whether we should be aiming to get half of our young people into university. |
| Murder Rocks the Maharishi University Antony Barnett reports on the killing that has shocked the Beatles' guru's college campus. The large golden domes of the... |
Corpses 'sold' at University The man entrusted with supervising corpses and body parts donated to the University of California's prestigious medical... |
| Don't Cut Our Fees, Say Students Revolt erupts as India moves to slash cost of courses at elite business schools in attempt to broaden access. |
French Mps Reappraise Plan to Outlaw Veils Schools ban forms focus for discontent. The French government's plan to ban Islamic veils from schools came under sustained... |
| Bush Fails Schools Test A Texas education "miracle" that helped establish George Bush as an effective reformer, and later became a model... |
Israeli Academics Fight 'racist' University Test Israeli academics are threatening to call for an international boycott of their own university heads if admission tests... |
| Police on the Beach Poop Schoolies Party Nearly 50,000 school leavers have gone to Surfers Paradise to celebrate schoolies week, a rite of passage in Australia... |
Chirac Calls for Schools Reform President Jacques Chirac yesterday launched a national debate on the future of France's troubled education system, saying... |
| Student Prank That Gave the Chinese a Fit of the Willies In the history of comical flops, few pranks can have gone down quite so badly as the fake-genital skit performed by three... |
Plan for School Confession in Cyprus Teenagers on Cyprus may soon be able to repent their sins between lessons, after education officials yesterday said they... |
| Public School Undergrads Must Pay Up It is obscene for the taxpayer to subsidise the well-off at university. It was Sir Robin Butler - sometime cabinet secretary... |
Tuition Fees Gain Allure in Cash-hit European Campuses In a special report we find university administrators warming to charging students as governments cut grants. It is not... |
| 'Le string' faces school ban as French fear sex abuse of girls A hundred metres from the lycé e at La Celle Saint-Cloud in the Paris suburbs, the street poster for Sloggi's skimpy... |
Row over headscarves in schools reveals secular tensions Two Muslim schoolgirls were yesterday facing expulsion from their state secondary school in the suburbs of Paris after they... |
| Trinity cancels invite to Islamist Trinity College Dublin has been forced to withdraw an invitation to an Islamic extremist who was scheduled to speak at a... |
University chief resigns over links to mobster brother Move by powerful Democrat follows vicious feud with Republican governor. One of Massachusetts' most powerful political... |
| New York to Open Gay High School New York City is set to create America's first public secondary school specifically devoted to gay, bisexual and... |
Zhivago row in Russian schools A row has broken out between the Russian government and a group of the country's top writers over removing literary... |
| Professors fight to keep Swift on syllabus as Pakistan's Islamists target 'vulgar' classics Some of the great works of English literature could be scrapped from the syllabus of one of Pakistan's leading universities... |
Pakistan's Islamists Target English Literature Classics Some of the great works of English literature could be scrapped from the syllabus of one of Pakistan's leading universities... |
| Finland boasts comprehensive system where standards soar A northern European country, sophisticated English speakers, motivated teachers and a transformed educational system that... |
School hogs Potter extras' money Schoolchildren working as extras on the new Harry Potter film have been forced to give the money they made to their school,... |
| Russian lessons Russia is training hundreds of Iranian technicians and scientists in complex nuclear processes at institutes across the... |
No surrender Zimbabwe's education system used to be the envy of all Africa. Now its biggest university is at the point of collapse under... |
| Mental troubles afflict Trinity Record levels of depression, stress and heavy drinking are burdening students and counselling services at Dublin's... |
Sign Up at Sex School, Dutch Pupils Told Dutch sexual tolerance has been tested to breaking point by an edgy TV programme which told school leavers that they should... |
| US universities in race quota row It seemed little more than a personal tragedy when the University of Michigan rejected Jennifer Gratz, a promising high... |
A bad week to fight positive discrimination affirmative action case Iraq factor adds weight to military leaders' argument for ethnically selective admission to universities. |
| Students Hold First Anti-war Protest in China Chinese students staged a rare state-sanctioned demonstration as part of worldwide protests against the war in Iraq.... |
Scholars move to protect 'priceless' Iraqi heritage The "grave danger" posed to the priceless heritage of Iraq by military action is highlighted in a declaration... |
| Texas Cuts Hurt Publishers Publishing groups Pearson and Reed Elsevier yesterday came under pressure amid fears that one of America's biggest states... |
No U-turns on University Access New Labour must not do a u-turn over working-class access to university. Margaret Hodge, by nature an irrepressible... |
| France Takes on New Wave of Anti-semitism in Schools Minister fears a war in Iraq could exacerbate tension between Muslim and Jewish communities. France began an effort to... |
University blasts puzzle Chinese Nine people were injured yesterday in bomb explosions at the two most prestigious universities in China. No one claimed... |
| Pizza fortune builds student stairway to salvation Dislike of liberal Catholic universities prompts Domino's founder to plan campus serving up a diet of conservatism. |
Pass the dutchie, don't sell it, judge tells kids Italian teenagers can smoke joints on school trips, as long as they are sharing them rather than selling them, an Italian... |
| Creationists Sue Biology Professor A religious group that believes God literally created the world has brought a legal action against a biology professor,... |
Rule One: Never Talk About Kent The county that has kept school selection is an educational failure. When I left Oxford last Wednesday, I was as near to... |
| Shakur joins Shakespeare as LA classrooms rap to English The words of Tupac Shakur and Big Rube have joined those of F Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck in English classes in one... |
Sinn Fein backs unionist return to Trinity College Unionism has returned to Dublin after an absence of almost 60 years - with a little help from Sinn Fein. And a woman is... |
| Old wounds open up again as America faces more agonising over race rights The Bush administration is poised to wade in today to one of the most divisive issues facing American society, backing... |
Cases that eroded liberal legislation Allan Bakke, a white applicant, challenged the admission system which ensured that 16% of university places went to... |
| Scientists criticise academic boycott Four leading scientists have voiced their opposition to the academic boycott of Israel, saying it could only be justified... |
US historian stripped of book prize A US historian whose book on the origins of gun culture caused a furore has been stripped of a prestigious prize after... |
| Son of Weathermen is Rhodes Scholar It is, possibly, a choice that would have the imperialist Cecil Rhodes rolling in his grave: the award of a Rhodes... |
Case opens against academic held in Indonesia A British academic and her American colleague went on trial in Indonesia today, accused of violating visa regulations by... |
| Harvard overturns bar on Oxford poet Harvard University has voted to reinvite the Oxford poet, Tom Paulin, to read his work there, one week after it withdrew... |
Adrift on an Ocean of Geographic Ignorance Three in 10 young people cannot find the Pacific ocean. Hint: it covers one third of the planet on a world map. Despite the... |
| Countries failing to meet international schools targets An international commitment to provide universal primary education by 2015 is being seriously hampered by aid cuts, teacher... |
The Cornish language Read our guide (in English, mostly) to the best websites on latest tongue to receive official EU recognition. |
| Afghan fundamentalists raid girls' schools The authorities in Afghanistan were last night investigating a series of well-coordinated attacks by suspected Taliban... |
School boring UK teenagers Teenagers in the UK find school more boring than their peers in other industrialised nations, a report published today shows. |
| Harrods Boss Exposed As Fake Old Boy at Eton of East Fayed invited himself to a reunion at his old alma mater. The trouble is, he never went to school there. Victoria College... |
Writing on the wall for 'terror school' The long, thin placard above the entrance to the Arabic lesson classroom at the Al Mukmin Koranic boarding school in the... |
| Two die in attack at Australian university Two students were killed and five wounded after a gunman went on the rampage in a Melbourne university yesterday. |
Oxfam Shuns £5,000 in Row Over Book Oxfam has turned down a £5,000 donation from a distinguished professor of philosophy because it is linked to his latest... |
| Three physicists share Nobel Prize for cosmic discoveries Three astrophysicists - two Americans and a Japanese - share this year's Nobel Prize for physics for their work in... |
Rome Professor is Arrested in Sex-slave Swoop on Mafia A Rome economics professor is one of more than 80 people arrested as suspected members of an organisation which exploits... |
| New word order? French fear Larousse dictionary may fall into foreign hands. The word is out. Larousse, more a way of life than the... |
US college angry at topping party list The authorities at an otherwise obscure mid-western university are furious because it has been named the number one college... |
| Mixed results The new A-levels are too easy for the brightest students, and cause problems for the least able. The system must change. |
Down the brain drain Too many graduates are chasing too few high-skill jobs. Is the government's plan to increase the number of university... |
| Students 'fall Victim to Real-life Big Brother' A French couple who rented out rooms to a succession of attractive young catering students in the seaside town of Banyuls... |
US Schools Returning to Segregation Decades after the struggles to integrate black children into American classrooms, a study says education is again dividing... |
| Soviet study Ministers could learn a thing or two about education from the Russians, says Ben Wegg-Prosser. |
Time for a rethink If the issue of an academic boycott of Israeli universities becomes more interesting than the suffering of Palestinians, it... |
| Palace coup rocks University College Critics turn on moderniser who 'failed to lead and lacked vison'. University College London is one of the jewels in the... |
Academics appeal for West Bank education rights An international group of distinguished academics - including the philosopher Jacques Derrida and Hilary and Steven Rose -... |
| Ivy League rivalry entangles FBI after Princeton hacks into Yale Dean suspended for snooping at decisions made on students. The long-standing rivalry between America's oldest and most... |
3 x + 2 y 2 = who cares? Today, maths teaching in our schools is to be reviewed, with algebra expected to give way to more 'relevant' topics. But... |
| Wellcome support for science centre The Wellcome Trust centre for excellence in science teaching aims to recruit and train up to 2,500 new teachers each year,... |
Four religions' plan for multi-faith school aims to establish a trend The Church of England has thrown its weight behind an extraordinary proposal to unite Muslim, Jewish, Christian and Hindu... |
| Six die in South African initiations Toll from single 'school' shows up dangers of tradition. The death toll at an "initiation school" outside... |
US Dance Step Banned Because of Association With Gang Violence A dance step that has been described as "hopscotch on crack" has been banned in schools because of its... |
| 'Schools are failing on a breathtaking scale' Public voices All this week we print views from teaching's frontline. Today: how fresh ideas are stifled. |
'Children and teachers testify to the cheating' Public voices: All this week, in this space, we print what those on teaching's frontlines have been writing to tell us.... |
| 'Come back, those days of Thatcherite funding' Public Voices: All this week, we print what those on teaching's frontlines have been writing to tell us. Today, the focus... |
US professor under fire for book on guns Academics cast doubt on claims that early American pioneers were unarmed. |
| Revolution in the head Change is afoot in US universities as students pledge their allegiance to honesty, writes John Sutherland |
Language Cull Could Leave People Speechless 90% of tongues including Tofa and British Romani to disappear. |
| Food supplements 'improve' learning ability Food supplements may prompt enormous improvement in the educational abilities of children with learning difficulties, a... |
US city's schools put in private hands Around the Richard Wright elementary school, many of the houses have been demolished; hundreds more are boarded up. It is... |
| Why Sneer at Classroom Assistants? Teachers are always saying they are overworked. So why do they sneer at classroom assistants, asks Madeleine Bunting. |
The takeover of education For many children, a new school term begins with apprehension. But yesterday it wasn't just the children who were worried... |