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Alors que la parole se libère progressivement, les syndicats des personnels de direction demandent au ministère de l’éducation de fournir un « état des lieux » sur le phénomène.

Après une semaine de débats, le projet de loi doit être adopté lors d’un vote solennel à l’Assemblée nationale, mardi.

Angehende Psychotherapeuten leben oft in prekären Arbeitsverhältnissen. Die Ausbildung ist teuer, Vergütung nicht geregelt. Das will der Gesundheitsminister ändern - mit einem neuen Studiengang.

Intouchable depuis le début du quinquennat, le ministre de l’éducation est de plus en plus critiqué parmi les élus de la majorité pour ses positions.

Half of universities have fewer than 5% of students from poorer white backgrounds. Just trying to boost numbers isn’t enough

At half of England’s universities, fewer than 5% of students are classified as being from disadvantaged white backgrounds, according to a new report from the National Education Opportunities Network (Neon). This fact is bluntly stated as being a problem in the introduction of the report rather than the conclusion, but it is worth looking beyond these headline figures. What do reports like this really tell us?

Who attends university, and which university they attend, is a question that captures commentators and policymakers, for reasons that are related to but not fundamentally about education. Universities are both pathways and gateways. They can help train you to get somewhere new, but they also work to make sure that only the right sort of people get into positions of power. These functions overlap, but aren’t the same.

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Emerging technologies are a boon for the work of conservation researchers, but not all universities are equipped for them

Technology is playing an increasingly vital role in conservation and ecology research. Drones in particular hold huge potential in the fight to save the world’s remaining wildlife from extinction. With their help, researchers can now track wild animals through dense forests and monitor whales in vast oceans. The World Wildlife Fund for Nature estimates that up to five living species on earth become extinct every day, making it vital that universities develop new technologies to capture the data that can persuade those in power to act.

The British International Education Association and the Born Free Foundation hosted a conference in January to highlight the importance of technological solutions in protecting vulnerable species and ecosystems. Speakers underlined how technology can help conservation efforts: fixed-wing drones can land on water and circle high above the Indian Ocean to spot whales, rays and illegal fishing, while artificial intelligence-enabled infrared cameras are able to identify members of an individual species or human poachers, even through thick environmental cover.

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Pour vaincre les fantasmes et les préjugés qui font le lit de l’antisémitisme, il est urgent d’introduire dans les programmes d’histoire une présentation complémentaire de l’histoire des juifs, estime Jean-Claude Lescure, enseignant, dans une tribune au « Monde ».

When the writer Peter Pomerantsev was a teenager, he was sent to a school that was part of the European Schools network, which counts Boris Johnson among its alumni. He discusses what the project can tell us about the EU. Plus: the Guardian’s UK technology editor, Alex Hern, on AI advancements

The writer Peter Pomerantsev was 15 when his parents moved to Germany and enrolled him at the European School in Munich. The schools were set up in 1956 with the aim of educating the students to be “in mind Europeans, schooled and ready to complete and consolidate the work of their fathers before them, to bring into being a united and thriving Europe”. One of the architects of Brexit, Boris Johnson, attended one of the schools, in Brussels.

Pomerantsev discusses with Anuskha Asthana his experiences at the school and what the project tells us about the EU. He wonders whether the school successfully promoted integration, or actually had the opposite effect.

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Universities are warning of a financial crisis if a review recommends cutting the level of tuition fees.

Sonja Dannenberger, 38, leitet eine Grundschule auf dem Land, wo besonders viele Lehrer fehlen. Ein Gespräch über den schwierigen Schulalltag mit dem Lückenstopfen.

Bachelor versus programme grande école. Sur le campus lillois de cette « business school », les étudiants mènent des vies parallèles, selon la filière qu’ils ont choisie. Dans un climat de relative indifférence.

A Labour councillor says there is "no clear direction" on a new university for Peterborough.

When it comes to the mangling of English, political psychologists reign supreme

My beleaguered and battered Brexit brethren, I would like to bring you relief, but monumental language mangling offers little comfort on this vexatious subject.

Consider the following from the International Society of Political Psychology: “Studies have been largely silent on whether EU attitudes are also shaped by people’s attitudes towards the principles and practices of supranational governance. This research provides a first test of the nature and role of supranational attitudes.

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Student Nuradean Arreythe loved classical music so much he taught himself how to play, even though he doesn’t read music or own a piano.

« Le Monde » a demandé à des contributeurs de tous horizons de proposer, chaque jour, une idée pour changer la France. Pierre Mathiot, professeur de science politique, préconise l’accompagnent des jeunes les plus en difficultés.

Shadow education secretary to outline measures including crackdown on top-tier pay

A Labour government would end the “failed free-market experiment in higher education”, taking a tougher line on vice-chancellors’ pay and improving academic diversity, the shadow education secretary is set to announce.

Angela Rayner will outline a series of major policy steps that would allow regulators to intervene in how universities in England are run, including how they recruit and reward staff.

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L’éducation est une science (moyennement) exacte. Cette semaine, Nicolas Santolaria s’interroge sur cette gagatisation du langage qui pousse nombre d’adultes à s’adresser à leur progéniture comme s’ils avaient eux-mêmes 2 ans d’âge mental.

A mother ran up lawyers' bills of £60,000 fighting to stop her daughter being taken into care.

Universities struggling financially would not be allowed to fail under a Labour government, the party says.

The man, who posed as a 15-year-old pupil, was found to be an adult after an age assessment.