Tag: Education

Tens of thousands of students will not get their exam results on Thursday because of the fallout from the government’s U-turn over A-levels and GCSEs, under a last-minute announcement. Pupils sitting the BTec qualification were told hours before results day that they would have to wait for their grades ...

Former UK prime ministers John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown on Tuesday joined economists Amartya Sen, Kaushik Basu and 270 others to call for urgent action to deal with the education emergency across the globe triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic.Noting that over 1 billion children are out of ...

The National Education Policy, 2020 has been projected and applauded as the government of India’s resolve to expand and vitalise equitable quality public education. The document emphasises interventions in early childhood education; foundational literacy and numeracy; rearrangement of curricular and pedagogical structure of school education; reorganisation of teacher education; ...

The final conversation between the air traffic controller (ATCO) and one of the pilots of the Air India Express flight 1344 that crashed last week in Kozhikode did not indicate any sign of danger, according to a senior official of the Ministry of Civil Aviation.The Centre will not allow ...

Schools in England will be able to appeal their students’s GCSE and A-level results if they can show grades are lower than expected because previous cohorts are not “representative” of this year’s students. England’s exams regulator has said schools and colleges can appeal if they can prove that historical ...

Children in Indian-controlled Kashmir are no strangers to lockdowns. Curfews, strikes and school shutdowns are all part of growing up in one of the world’s most militarized zones. So when schools in the disputed region reopened after six months in late February, 9-year-old Jannat Tariq was overjoyed to see ...

While the whole of India, even in a lockdown, has free speech and expression and access to news, Internet, hospitals, police stations and elected representatives, J&K is on a rights-denying lockdown and the Parliament or the political system has not managed to speak up for it. P Chidambaram writes ...

24 • Northampton • Writer and race equality activist I remember when Mark Duggan was killed by police. It was my generation's Stephen Lawrence moment + An event that I had a first visceral connection to was the London riots of 2011, when Mark Duggan was killed by police. ...