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Education

  • ‘An ideal play’ … The Two Gentlemen of Verona in rehearsals led by Greg Doran at St Catherine's College, Oxford.

    ‘They’re teaching me’: Greg Doran on staging Shakespeare’s unloved Two Gents with students

    The theatre director, now teaching at Oxford after years running the RSC, thinks The Two Gentlemen of Verona is perfect for a young cast to argue over. We go into rehearsals
  • Student protesters against the war on the mall in front of Low Memorial Library at Columbia University in 1968 and 2024.

    ‘Police raids are nothing new’: student protesters from 1960s see history repeating itself

  • Dozens of tents on a grassy area in front of an old building, with posters stuck in the mud and signs reading anti colonial learning space and under student occupation.

    University leaders must take ‘personal’ care to protect Jewish students, Sunak says

  • US students blast cancellation of commencements: ‘A slap in the face’

  • UK universities must ‘show leadership’ over Gaza protests, says Gillian Keegan

  • Greens senator applies for court case against One Nation leader to be re-opened – As it happened

  • Trinity College Dublin agrees to divest from Israeli firms after student protest

  • Award-winning UK teacher aims to show adults their historical blind spots

  • Why have student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza gone global?

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University guide

Universities

  • Conservative MP For Dover Natalie Elhicke Defects To Labour During PMQs<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 8: Opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer greets Natalie Elphicke, MP for Dover, after her defection from the Conservative Party, in the House of Commons on May 8, 2024 in London, England. The Conservative MP for Dover defected to the Labour Party today saying her former party has become "a byword for incompetence and division". (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

    UK politics: Tory defector Natalie Elphicke apologises for comments about women who were sexually assaulted by her ex-husband – as it happened

  • Grant Shapps

    Grant Shapps says it will ‘take some time’ to conclude who was to blame for cyber-attack on armed forces payroll – as it happened

    • A person puts a banner up at a ornate window

      Pro-Palestinian student protests around the world – in pictures

    • Students from the University of Oxford stand next to a tent with an “Oxford Action for Palestine” banner.

      Students stage pro-Palestine occupations at five more UK universities

    • Hala Hanina, a Palestinian student who has been involved in protests at Newcastle University

      ‘There are people in tents writing dissertations’: UK reaches for scale of US campus protests

In depth

  • A student holds a protest message at the Palestine solidarity camp at Bristol University last Friday.

    ‘I feel disgusted and ashamed’: Bristol student camp one of many protesting at university ties to Israel

  • The British Academy.

    The end of empire: revamped British Academy stakes claim for modern role in UK’s global mission

    Rana Mitter, vice president for public engagement, keen to move on from colonial guilt and post-Brexit introspection
  • Maxine Nwaneri - Author - shot for OM

    ‘I now know that anything is possible’: from a women’s shelter to Cambridge University

    No matter how low you sink, your dreams can still come true: one woman’s inspirational story, by Maxine Nwaneri
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Opinion

  • Schoolboy leaving house with book bag on way to school

    Living opposite my son’s school has its advantages

    Séamas O’Reilly
  • FILE - As light rain falls, New York City police officers take people into custody near the Columbia University campus in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, after a building taken over by protesters earlier in the day was cleared, along with a tent encampment. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

    I teach democracy at Princeton. Student protesters are getting an education like no other

    Razia Iqbal
  • Year 8 students reading A Christmas Carol in an English classroom at Cranford community college in London.

    The Guardian view on English lessons: make classrooms more creative again

  • Simon Jenkins

    Schools should bond communities: faith schools divide them. Why are ministers making that worse?

    Simon Jenkins
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