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"Why do educated people like comparing stuff to Hitler?"
With travel prices soaring during school holidays, some parents opt to take their children out of school for a family getaway. But laws restricting term-time holidays mean that parents must make sure they seek prior permission from their child’s school, or risk a hefty fine.
The review also attempts to tackle off-rolling - the controversial practice of removing children from the school register without formal exclusion.
Education Secretary Damian Hinds is warned it would be "a huge backwards step".
The University of Cambridge has launched a two-year study into how it may have gained from the slave trade. Historic institutions like universities have been challenged in recent years to look into their pasts, especially in terms of benefitting from slavery or colonialism. With statues and buildings named after now-controversial figures, both academics and students are challenging institutions to rethink who they honour and what their substantial endowments were built on. From the student riots in South Africa to the tiki-torch protests in Charlottesville, examining the past can inflame modern political and social tensions.
"The wounds of that period still reverberate today."
Cross-party move aims to end ‘freefall’ in overseas students coming to UK
Prosecutors said they were considering criminal charges after A-level maths papers from 2017 were leaked online ahead of the test.
Since 1999, American schools have tried to prevent a threat that had once been unthinkable.
Stress has seen children vomit and flee exam halls in tears.