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The Tories have sucked the joy from the education system. Here are three ways Labour can bring it back | Polly Toynbee

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Keir Starmer should revitalise Sure Start, focus on children’s happiness – and give a crucial boost to further education Our writers and experts name the pledges Labour must include in its manifesto Children became unhappier in the past decade, according to the annual Good Childhood report. Nothing else. Continue reading.

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This startup trailblazer believes these 5 trends will shape the future of education

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Education leaders ready to leap into the next generation of education that fully embraces digital modalities aren’t waiting around for our current institutions to get it together. “An education system built for the Industrial Revolution is not going to get it done and has frankly outstayed its welcome.”

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The Necessary Imagination: a new educational dialectic

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Using the century old ideas of the Surrealists I will argue that, like them in the 1920s and 1930s, we stand on the edge of an educational revolution that requires radical new shapes. Furthermore, when talking to students and employers they want agility, resilience, creativity, passion, systems thinking.

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Nonprofit Group Offers to Renovate and Build Charter Schools in Philly

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

String Theory Schools (STS), an education management nonprofit group, is looking to help Philadelphia’s educational system through a $1 billion offer to fix up the city’s schools and build new ones. So you can come and study anything from instrumental music to vocal music to fine arts or digital arts to robotics.

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“The seeds are sown” – what’s next for UK India education partnerships?

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Boosting trade with India Photo: British Council India The group has been in the country for several days already as part of a trade mission organised by the UK’s Department for Business and Trade, Department for Education and the British Council, meeting their Indian counterparts and discussing opportunities for collaboration.

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Study: Age As Aspect of Identity Not Prioritized by University DEI Offices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Natalie Galucia The study, Age as a Factor in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives in Higher Education , was conducted between February 2022 and January 2023 and published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Wor k. As people are living and working longer, the need for on-going education and training grows.

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“Not just a helicopter campus” – Coventry’s bid to maintain links with Wroc?aw campus

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Brexit would undermine the UK’s position as a global leader in science, arts and innovation, the higher education leaders foresaw. The then-president of Universities UK and vice-chancellor of the University of Kent, Julia Goodfellow, noted that, “Inside the EU, our outstanding British universities are even stronger.”