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Miramonte teacher was paid $40,000 to drop firing challenge
LAUSD says it paid Mark Berndt to settle his challenge because it was blocked from investigating and defending its firing of the Miramonte Elementary teacher accused of sexually abusing students…. Read more
Russia’s struggle with teen suicides
One of highest youth suicide rates in the world is contributing to Russia’s demographic decline. According to a recent UN report, Russia has one of the highest rates of teen… Read more
Brazil could be first country to use Twitter’s new censorship policy to silence its citizens
Brazil could become the first country to take Twitter up on its plan to censor Tweets at government request. The move has sparked alarm among privacy groups, who fear governments… Read more
Twelve white firefighters are awarded $2.5m in discrimination case after losing out on promotions
Claimed Buffalo fire department wanted to promote African-American firefighters instead Twelve white firefighters have been given more than $2.5 million from the city of Buffalo after they sued the fire… Read more
Rise in British students going Dutch as degrees cost just one sixth of what they do here – and they’re taught in English
You don’t have to speak double Dutch – and the fees are significantly cheaper. That’s why more and more British students are flocking to universities in the Netherlands, it was… Read more
University puts up posters giving foreign students lessons in how to use Western loos
The stereotypical student is a messy sort of beast, with a fondness for alcohol and daytime TV and an allergy to washing up. But for all their foibles, most… Read more
Head of academy row school quits after failed inspection
The head teacher of a school at the centre of a row over attempts to make it become an academy has quit after the school was put in special measures…. Read more
Academies row primary facing forced conversion
A primary school which resisted Michael Gove’s academies programme is facing forced conversion after Ofsted inspectors found it had failed to come up to scratch. Downhills Primary School in Haringey,… Read more
Eton College head: scrap GCSEs and have exams only at 18
The head of Eton College, Tony Little, has called for GCSEs to be scrapped in favour of examining pupils only once they are 18, it was reported. Mr Little made… Read more
There’s no place for dreaming spires in Professor Les Ebdon’s world
Should this epitome of educational mediocrity be gatekeeper to our finest universities? In Thomas Hardy’s great and gloomy novel, Jude the Obscure, the poor boy Jude hears of Oxford (called… Read more
