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Published: 01 December 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Campaigners across the United Kingdom are pressing the government to allow schools in England and Wales to pilot four-day working weeks as growing concerns emerge around teacher burnout, recruitment struggles, and rising workloads. The call has been led by the 4 Day Week Foundation, which argues that the current system is placing unsustainable pressure on teachers while failing...

Published: 25 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Tobi Coventry is invisible, yet he is here. A debut novelist writing about sexuality, desire, and, inadvertently, masculinity, Coventry represents the kind of male author some critics claim no longer exists. For the past five years, the narrative has circulated that men cannot win major literary prizes or write compelling fiction about young men. Coventry spends his days...

Published: 24 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Starting a new stationery item is always satisfying, but the first page of a diary feels exceptional. Now is the perfect moment to choose a planner that will improve organisation and productivity throughout 2026. Selecting a design should consider whether you need a weekly or daily layout to match your planning style efficiently. Some may prefer undated diaries,...

Published: 21 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A Scottish local authority is facing nearly 30 civil claims from families following a serious carbon monoxide leak at one of its primary schools, raising concerns over long-term health impacts on children and the adequacy of school safety checks. Earlier this year, East Dunbartonshire Council was fined in the criminal courts after admitting to breaches of health...

Published: 20 November 2025 Thursday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Harvard University professor and former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has announced that he will step back from teaching and his administrative role at Harvard Kennedy School while the university investigates his correspondence with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The move comes after recently released emails indicated Summers communicated with Epstein up until...

Published: 18 November 2025 Tuesday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The wellbeing of teachers across the United Kingdom has deteriorated to its lowest level in many years, raising serious concerns about staff retention, classroom stability and the long-term outlook for the education sector. A newly released annual survey from a major education workforce organisation reveals a stark decline in morale, job satisfaction and mental health among teachers,...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Nearly two decades after the 2006 blockbuster, fans have had their first glimpse of the highly anticipated sequel to The Devil Wears Prada, courtesy of a teaser trailer that has already sparked excitement across social media. Iconic fashion villain Miranda Priestly is back, striding through her office in a pair of red Valentino Rockstud heels, reminding viewers that...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Schools in England are steering away children with special needs, leading some to have six times as many pupils requiring learning or behaviour support compared with others, according to research. Local authority leaders told the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) they knew of schools that were “happy” to see others take children requiring extra support detailed by...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. When Peter Higgs quietly set down his prediction for what would later be known as the Higgs boson, he could hardly have imagined that the idea would transform modern physics, inspire vast international experiments, and lead to one of the most celebrated scientific discoveries of the century. More than sixty years later, his final gift has brought that...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The Nigerian government has officially reversed a controversial educational policy that mandated the use of indigenous languages as the primary medium of instruction in the early years of schooling, opting instead to restore English as the standard language from pre-primary levels through to university. The abrupt policy change marks a significant shift in the country’s education strategy and...