Education

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. 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...

Published: 14 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online For many families across England, the school run is more than a daily routine. It is the opening chapter of a long and often painful battle with a system designed to support disabled children but increasingly strained, fragmented and unable to keep pace with rising need. This week, that quiet struggle burst into the national spotlight as some...

Published: 13 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Perhaps it’s the abundance of high-quality releases this year, or maybe it’s the fact that I’ve actively deleted TikTok to reclaim my reading time, but I’ve already devoured 38 books in 2025. Yet, amid a stack of engrossing novels, memoirs, and romcoms, one has consistently stood out—and I’ve been recommending it to anyone who will listen. I’ve explored...

Published: 13 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The former chief of Ofsted, Baroness Amanda Spielman, has criticised Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, claiming her recent curriculum reforms favour union interests over the broader educational needs of students. In a piece for The Telegraph, Baroness Spielman warned that scrapping the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) and diluting performance measures such as Progress 8 risked undermining the take-up of humanities...

Published: 13 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Every November, South Korea comes to a standstill for the Suneung, the country’s notoriously demanding college entrance exam. Shops close, flights are delayed to reduce noise, and even the morning commute slows down to accommodate students. By late afternoon, most test-takers emerge from their schools, exhaling in relief and greeting waiting family members. But for blind students, the...

Published: 13 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Almost a year after French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal was arrested on arrival at Algiers airport, the Algerian presidency has granted him a pardon and allowed him to leave the country. Sansal, 81, had been at the centre of a bitter diplomatic row between Paris and Algiers. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s decision to pardon him followed a direct request from...