Children who were born at the start of the school year are more popular than their younger classmates born at the end of the year, a new study finds. A survey of 13,000 teenagers in Europe by researchers from the University of Groningen and Utrecht University asked them to list popular students in their class. The … Read more
University gifts plunge by a fifth in past academic year with 11 institutions’ fundraising classed as ‘fragile’ during pandemic Philanthropic donations to UK universities dropped by almost a fifth in last year Eleven institutions classed as ‘fragile’ in terms of fundraising activities Philanthropic funds secured in the 2019-20 academic year totalled £1.09billion By Sarah Harris … Read more
University gifts plunge by a fifth in past academic year with 11 institutions’ fundraising classed as ‘fragile’ during Covid pandemic Philanthropic donations to UK universities dropped by almost a fifth in last year Eleven institutions classed as ‘fragile’ in terms of fundraising activities Philanthropic funds secured in the 2019-20 academic year totalled £1.09billion By Daily … Read more
Adults wish they were taught life skills instead of academic subjects at school, study shows Adults wish they were taught skills such as changing a tyre or plastering cracks Money worries headed up the top 20 list of what parents wish they had learned Others wish they had learned how to start a business or … Read more
Adults wish they were taught life skills instead of academic subjects at school, study shows Adults wish they were taught skills such as changing a tyre or plastering cracks Money worries headed up the top 20 list of what parents wish they had learned Others wish they had learned how to start a business or … Read more
Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert shares a ‘rare personal message’ as she officially divorces the man who moved on with her friend while she spent two years in a hellhole Iranian jail Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Islamic studies scholar, was freed last November She spent two years in an Iranian prison on trumped-up spying charges Upon … Read more
Regular Covid testing will result in a ‘public health disaster’ with thousands forced needlessly to self-isolate, an academic has warned. Officials hope the multi-billion-pound scheme, under which everyone in England will be invited to take two free tests a week, will help to ease the country out of lockdown safely. The Prime Minister insisted it … Read more
Fury as royals are accused of ‘ties to slavery’: Academic who made Nazi jibe at author of controversial race report sparks new row Professor Priyamvada Gopal said that the Royal Family was a ‘white’ institution Also claimed ties to slavery and compared black author of race report to a Nazi Latest intervention after she Royals … Read more
Fury as royals are accused of ‘ties to slavery’: Academic who made Nazi jibe at author of controversial race report sparks new row Professor Priyamvada Gopal said that the Royal Family was a ‘white’ institution Also claimed ties to slavery and compared black author of race report to a Nazi Latest intervention after she Royals … Read more
An Australian academic who spent 804 days in one of Iran’s toughest prisons on trumped-up spying charges has detailed abuse by an obsessive troll. Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who was released by Iran in a prisoner swap deal in November, was accused of being an Israeli agent several times by Tim Anderson, who was sacked by Sydney … Read more