Auckland’s exclusive Saint Kentigern Boys’ Presbyterian College has produced many star athletes over the years, but none quite as divisive as Laurel Hubbard. The 43-year-old competitive weightlifter was this week selected to represent New Zealand at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics – making her the first transgender athlete to compete at sport’s highest level. Hubbard transitioned … Read more
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
Former President Barack Obama has revealed that he once broke a classmate’s nose after he called him a racial slur during a locker room fight in high school. Obama, 59, opened up publicly for the first time about the incident in the second episode of his new Spotify podcast with singer Bruce Springsteen, titled Renegades: … Read more
Poor pupils are 18 months behind their classmates when they take GCSEs as disadvantage gap grows, report says Education Policy Institute report found the attainment gap has stopped closing Disadvantaged pupils in England are 18.1 months behind peers during GCSEs Analysis shows gap between poorer and affluent primary school pupils widened By Faith Ridler For … Read more