The author of Brooklyn said he would ‘use all my energy’ in the role, to help champion benefits of higher education Novelist Colm Tóibín has been appointed chancellor of the University of Liverpool. The author, who won the 2009 Costa novel of the year with Brooklyn, accepted the role because of the part universities play […]
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When Enana al-Assaf was bombed during an exam, she made herself carry on writing. Now doing a PhD in the UK, she worries every day about her family in Syria Enana al-Assaf was just five minutes into a pharmacy exam at Aleppo University when a bomb exploded next door. The then 22-year-old student says she’d
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I took a banner made by my students to a protest against the UK’s links with Trump because history tells them that the struggle for rights is never over As a teacher, I regularly have to remind students of the perils of using social media, but earlier this week it was me who came under
Winchester College knew in 1982 about allegations of abuse at the camps but says it didn’t go to the police to save the victims further trauma One of Britain’s leading public schools has been forced to defend its role in an alleged cover up of serious physical abuse at Christian summer camps attended by its
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The account @RoguePOTUSStaff purports to be leaking information about Donald Trump. Authentic or not, its sorrowful tone gives it a ring of truth Now that political satire is dead, we must make some decisions about what will occupy the space in our lives it used to fill. You might just shrug and say “events”. And
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I bought my five- and seven-year-old sons a toy gun in a supermarket. What happened next has changed our feelings about our place in Britain On the penultimate day of spring term 2016, my children – aged five and seven – were detained in isolation after school for nearly two hours and questioned by police
Chinese scholar whose western alphabet system advanced literacy and comprehension between speakers of different languages A fortune teller once warned Zhou Youguang he would not live past 35. The prediction was plausible, as Zhou himself later noted. Average life expectancy in China was then around 30. He had experienced tuberculosis and depression and within a
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After opening up about my mental health problems, I received the help I needed to do my lecturing job well, writes Erica Crompton On an autumn afternoon in 2009, I was fired from my job as a university lecturer. I hadn’t declared my schizophrenia on an application form and this was treated as gross misconduct.
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Getting in your Ucas application was half the battle – now you have to sort through your offers and pick the two that suit you best If you’re in sixth form, with a bit of luck, university offers will be trickling into your inbox about now. But it’s not time to relax just yet. Whittling
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Michael Rosen explains the difference between a phonics test and a reading test (Letter from a curious parent, Education, 31 January). In a phonics test, children pronounce words presented to them in a list. In a reading test, children have to understand what they read. Of great interest is the consistent finding that heavy phonics
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