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Top academics threaten to resign over funding into big society research
Departmental heads say they will quit as peer reviewers unless references to big society are removed from strategy plan of arts research bodyDozens of the UK's most senior academics will resign on...
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Bend it like Beckham – but not on Mars
You could still play the beautiful game on the Red Planet, researchers say, but the ball would travel four times as far as on Earth – and you would no longer be able to 'bend' itFootball games vary...
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Think pink, if you want to deter building site thieves
Colour could be just one weapon in the war against plant theft – which costs the UK up to £1.5m a weekNot even Bob the Builder ever used a Barbie-pink digger on his building site – but his real-life...
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Teachers use hip-hop to teach poetry
When your teacher is a performance poet, English lessons can have a different accentNeat rows of well-behaved year 9s collapse into giggles and cover their faces with their hands as, on the stage,...
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Why are private school teachers joining the strike?
Independent teachers as likely to be members of government pension scheme as state counterparts – but maybe not for longTeachers at independent schools are as likely to be part of the teachers' pension...
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Olympics 2012: Sport as important as maths and English, says Edwards
Triple jump gold medallist urges government to make sport as much of a part of the curriculum as traditional academic subjectsJonathan Edwards, the Olympic gold medallist triple jumper, has called on...
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Tim Everton obituary
There was a clue to the exceptional character of Tim Everton for newcomers to his pub, the Phoenix in York, who sensed that the landlord wasn't exactly ordinary, but didn't want to pry. A copy of the...
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Outraged European academics resent 'rankings'
European academics are outraged by a new attempt to categorise arts and humanities journalsWhen new lists categorising European arts and humanities journals were first published in 2007, UK academics...
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Holland Park comprehensive to become an academy
The iconic Holland Park comprehensive has decided to become an academy. Why?If you stand outside the Department for Education this morning and listen carefully, you will probably hear the sound of...
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Does Michael Gove have a vision for schools?
The government is making many small changes, says Estelle Morris, but their cumulative effect goes far beyond the schools at which they are aimedThe forthcoming summer break will mark the end of the...
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Why are universities being asked to raise their access targets again?
Just a month before the Office for Fair Access is due to announce access agreements with universities, some are being asked to raise their targets for widening participationUniversities are doing more...
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New GCSE targets are a fresh blow to struggling school
How can schools with many pupils who face major struggles even hope to meet new government GCSE targets? Janet Murray charts a day in the life of Marlowe Academy'It's annoying when people say you go to...
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Are colleges cutting more jobs than they need to?
Unions are questioning whether redundancies in colleges are justified when the coffers are relatively fullAround 4,300 and counting. Every month the lecturers' union, UCU, updates numbers of further...
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How to teach ... debt
This week on the Guardian Teacher Network, you can find lots of fun activities to tie in with My Money WeekForty-five years ago tomorrow, the credit card was launched in the UK. Meanwhile, there is...
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Education letters
Considering Oxbridge, digital skills and misleading labelsPower of the stateIf I lean dangerously out of my office window, I can glimpse four or five university institutions whose academic standing is...
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We all own this strike | Alex Long and Steve Walker
J30 has grown virally into a UK-wide day of action involving many who've never been in a unionSince the storming of Millbank towers by thousands of students on 10 November last year and the school...
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Teachers' strike could shut down thousands of schools
Walkout over pension changes could lead to closure of up to 20,000 primary and secondary schools in EnglandAbout 17,000 schools in England could be affected by the planned strike by teachers protesting...
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An end to climate change?
Climate change is short-lived, at least in the curriculumRos Asquith
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Cuts protests: where is the anger now?
Cuts protests last winter prompted one police chief to warn of a new era of political unrest. But months later, the great British revolt went quiet. Will a teachers' strike reignite the unrest?Just off...
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Letters: Striking rhetoric from Michael Gove
No real surprise that Michael Gove is refusing to listen to teachers' justifiable anger about the changes to their pensions (Parents can break school strike – Gove, 27 June). The pensions review in...
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