Beatification ceremony for Clare Crockett, former party girl from Derry, draws more than 100 people to MadridA nun from Northern Ireland who was killed in an earthquake while she was teaching music in Ecuador has taken a step closer to sainthood.A cere…
Changes to system that has driven up teaching standards need to be made with great care
A sprawling government corruption scandal from 2006 ended multiple political careers. Failure to punish the culprits ended public faith in the system.
The former president embodied a strain of Christianity that emphasized caring for those on the margins โ but was eclipsed by the Religious Right.
The nationโs 39th president left a long meaningful legacy after a difficult four years in the White House.
Like other socialist parties in Europe, Sweden’s center left has lost ground to the far right. Itโs hoping to turn that around.
Ruth Beckermannโs compassionate documentary is testament to a diverse group of delightful seven-year-olds and the brilliance of their dedicated teacherThere are some big personalities in the class of seven-year-olds in an inner city Vienna primary scho…
Hurley arrives in Pied Piper territory with her daughter to take a teaching job at a creepy private school. Soon enough the townโs infamous rodent problem starts being an issueThe premise for this horror exercise is a potent notion, one that might have…
The future of American political engagement is barely political at all.
The vice president is making Texas a focal point in the abortion-rights debate.
Irelandโs transition year shows us that going off-curriculum can bring significant advantages, says Ruth MarvelEnrichment activities are often seen as the poorer cousin to core academic subjects โ but we know that they can have a powerful influence on …
The incident exacerbates party division.
After just a few months in office, the new British government is finding life tough.
Donald Trump never stops talking about immigration, trade and the economy. Those policy areas have animated all three of the former presidentโs campaigns for the White House, and he often finds ways to morph other topics into border security, tariffs, taxes and inflation when heโs riffing on the campaign trail. And for years โ amid [โฆ]
My quip on a TV show gave me an insider view of how the dominant People’s Party exerts its influence throughout the country.
We break down the 20 figures inside and outside government shaping Labourโs tech policy.
Compulsory preschool year for six-year-olds to be replaced with extra year in primary school from 2028Children in Sweden are to start school at six years old from 2028, a year earlier than at present, in an overhaul of the countryโs education system th…
Conservative academic James Orr has been described as the Republican vice presidential candidate’s “British sherpa.”
He was the longest-serving economy minister in modern French history.
A Jewish organisation has asked the authorities of the German capital to acquire the derelict villa of the chief propagandist for Nazi Germany and turn it into an education centre against propaganda as a tool of hate.
Governments across Europe are imposing smartphone bans in schools in an attempt to tackle screen addiction and cyberbullying.
Extinct in central Europe for 300 years, 36 northern bald ibis are following an ultralight aircraft on their long-forgotten migration route from Austria to SpainThe northern bald ibis was extinct in central Europe for 300 years. Now, it has returned โ …
Most EU member states see a large proportion of their teaching vacancies unfilled at the start of each school year, often thanks to low wages, high workload, and an ageing teacher population.
Hilton has supported Trump, but heโs also leaned into his own brand of โpositive populism.โ
Joan Walley on how the efforts to promote the teaching of German in Stoke on Trent are bearing fruit. Plus letters from Veronica Hardstaff and Keith HaywardThe Goethe Institute is right to insist that the shocking decrease in the number of A-level stud…
Lee Weiner helped lead the protests in 1968. Now heโs smoking weed in Ron DeSantisโ hometown.
A former student of the new vice-presidential candidate opens up.
The governor of Minnesota had a career in the National Guard and as a high school teacher before he got into politics in the early 2000s.
Nine-time skateboarding world champion Andy Macdonald is teaching teenage rivals new tricks as he competes at Olympics
Bremen says the symbol, used to call for silence in class, is โin danger of being mistakenโ for Turkish extremist โwolf saluteโ A city in northern Germany has become the first to issue an all-out ban on the use of a hand gesture used to encourage silen…
A deep dive into what Keir Starmer’s government will tackle in their first 100 days and then in their first year.
Dr. Ceren Kasฤฑm, Postdoctoral
Research and Teaching Fellow, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Photo credit: MesserWoland, via Wikimedia Commons
INTRODUCTION
The first-ever binding European
Union (EU) legal instrument to…
The key eyebrow-raising pledges in the Reform UK ‘contract’ with the public.
Despite Brexit, I still believe in the European project and as an Italian citizen I can play my partI was a member of the European parliament for South West England from 1994 to 2014, including a seven-year stint as leader of an alliance of Liberal and…
Second posthumous miracle attributed to leukaemia victim Carlo Acutis, qualifying him for canonisationA London-born teenager who died of leukaemia aged 15 is to become the Catholic churchโs first millennial saint.Carlo Acutis was a computer prodigy who…
Maria Fredrikssonโs unflinching documentary about Norwegian siblings who spy a painting of the spit of their dead sister then realise itโs actually her long lost twin navigates secrets, suicide and even Nazis. The revelations just keep comingKari and M…
Schools in England have been told not to teach children about gender identity.
These are the countries where youโll get paid the most for teaching English as a foreign language.
Every last Sunday in April, France holds a national day of remembrance for the victims of deportation during World War II. Ceremonies are held in tribute to the 150,000 people deported from French soil to the Nazi death camps, many of whom never retur…
Oregon lawmakers gave it three years. Portugalโs program took longer to show results.
Forced to move from Melitopol, โNataliiaโ now risks teaching hundreds of former students online.
The offensive โwomen in the homeโ provision endures. But we can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat For years, Ireland has prided itself on the determination of its voters to extract themselves from a constitutional straitjacket of Catholic social t…
The Dutch have long found it hard to face up to the horrors of the Nazi occupation when at least 100,000 Jews were murdered. Until nowThree-quarters of the Dutch Jewish population โ 102,000 people โ were killed by the Nazis during the second world war,…
For Swedes it means a dramatic change of national identity, while the alliance gets greater control of the Baltic SeaJust a few short months ago, Swedenโs Nato membership seemed a very long way from being a done deal. Having submitted its application t…
From nationwide abortion bans to classroom culture wars, assaults on climate science and political weaponization of the military, his return to the White House could make Trump 1.0 seem tame.
The controversial pundit is interviewing the Russian leader. Now other journalists are raging at “this SoB.”
The Florida governor also endorsed Trump.
Readers respond to Michele Gazzolaโs article on the dominance of the English language across the worldIt was refreshing to see the Guardian publishing an article claiming what those of us working in the field of English as a lingua franca have argued f…
For fluent speakers, there are clear benefits โ for others, there are huge costs. Here are some ways to boost linguistic justiceAnyone spending their Christmas holidays on the European mainland will likely have observed that it is quite common to meet …
The move marks another shift in the church’s stance on LGBTQ+ issues.
Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl tells BBC she is ‘grateful’ for the opportunity to work in Russia.
Michael Gove asked about Boris Johnson suggestion package to protect people with disabilities should be prepared โin slower timeโ. This live blog is closedGove breaks away from the line of questioning to issue an apology.I want to take this opportunity…
King Charles III, David Cameron and Rishi Sunak will be jostling for prominence at the annual climate summit in Dubai.
Ukraine’s troops are learning NATO doctrine before going back to the battlefield, but they’re also giving valuable tips to their trainers.
Thousands of Palestinian families are sheltering inside schools in the besieged Gaza Strip amid Israel’s relentless bombing campaign. Teachers and students at one facility told Euronews reporter Nebal Hajjo what their lives have become.
Unesco analysis shows that sub-Saharan Africa accounts for a third of the shortfall, but that Europe and North America are lacking tooThe world needs 44 million more teachers if education is to be provided to every child, according to new figures from …
