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Education

Pop! goes the curriculum: songs to inspire primary school children

20 March at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

Keir Starmer is on a personal mission to promote music to the under-11s. From rock’n’roll to Jonathan Richman, our writers suggest songs for an alternative schooling

• Charlotte Higgins: ‘Arts funding has collapsed under 14 years of Tory rule. Here are three ways Labour can fix it’

Rock’n’roll is nearly 70 years old: it can just sound arcane and distant to ears trained on 21st-century pop....

Compensate teachers in England for inability to work from home, report says

20 March at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Research recommends bonus to help retain staff and make up for lack of hybrid working opportunities

Teachers should be given a pay bonus to compensate for their inability to work from home and stop the rising numbers attracted away from the classroom for better working conditions elsewhere, according to a report.

The research by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) found...

World Happiness Report sounds alarm about the welfare of young people

20 March at 02:01 AM, via The Guardian

Lack of education, training and housing is behind loss of gen Z’s traditionally positive outlook

Younger people becoming more unhappy than older generationsVivek Murthy: the US surgeon general fighting for youngsters’ happiness

Something is going wrong for young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in the UK, across Europe, and in the US.

The latest World Happiness Report shows that while not...

‘You have to stand out’: six Dagenham teenagers on their future prospects

20 March at 02:01 AM, via The Guardian

Final year students from Goresbrook school talk about housing, higher education and social media – as well as hopes and fears

Young people becoming less happy than older generations, research showsSocial media is like driving with no speed limits, says US surgeon general

Zainab Shehzadi has a long list of worries: robots stealing jobs from humans, the damage wreaked on the climate by previous...

Every new school being built in England is in unsafe air pollution area, study says

20 March at 00:30 AM, via The Guardian

Analysis finds almost nine in 10 planned new school sites exceed three WHO targets – and all breach at least one of them

Every new school in England is being built in an area with unsafe levels of air pollution, according to a damning report that says thousands of children will experience “alarmingly poor” air quality.

Children are particularly vulnerable to the harmful effects of air pollution...

‘Exorbitant’ fees paid to academic publishers better spent on research and education

19 March at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Australia Institute report author says proposed open-access research library ‘great start’ but research grants reforms are needed to disrupt current model

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Australia’s public research institutions are paying $1bn a year to giant academic publishers, new research shows, amid growing calls for taxpayer money to be...

Boarding schools can do tremendous harm. Charles Spencer’s bleak memoir proves it | Gaby Hinsliff

19 March at 10:00 AM, via The Guardian

Many boys educated privately hand their trauma to the next generation – and, dangerously, to those who are raised to govern

Charles Spencer was just eight when he was sent away from home. Even before being packed off to boarding school, he was largely raised by nannies, in the remote aristocratic manner of the time. Lonely and vulnerable at his prep school, Maidwell Hall, which he describes as...

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