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Taylor Swift edges out Neil Diamond to earn the top ranking on the Hot Tours tally (see list, below), taking No. 1 for the second consecutive week...

Four River North parking facilities used by city employees assigned to Chicago’s central administrative hearings facility will be sold for $12 million to chip away at the city’s $30 billion pension crisis. Mayor Rahm Emanuel is desperately trying to convince Chicago taxpayers he has wrung every last dollar of savings out of the City Hall […]

Car donation in Chicago has a new twist. Beginning Thursday, if you donate your car to the Active Transportation Alliance, you will receive free memberships to the Divvy bike share program and the Enterprise CarShare program — on top of a tax deduction. “More and more we see people going car-free or downsizing their car […]

  Benenden   Founded in 1923, Benenden school in Kent began life as one of many all-girls boarding schools. But as other similar schools gradually introduced day pupils, Benenden stuck… Read more

The term ‘dyslexia’ has always been emotive, and it remains so. Julian Elliott and Elena Grigorenko’s book The Dyslexia Debate (2014) has done nothing to dispel the controversy. In a… Read more

Since its launch in September 2008, the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) has proved enormously -popular across the country. While all types of school have entered candidates, independent schools have been… Read more

Everything in the 21st-century developed world is something the 21st-century developed world believes it can monetise. Children, and their education, are most certainly not exempt from this paradigm. Educationalists rarely… Read more

The tuition industry is growing rapidly in Britain, doing great work in improving numeracy and literacy and also aiding social mobility and aspiration. As former Marlborough headmaster Edward Gould said, the… Read more

Teaching is, and always has been, challenging. As society changes, so do the demands on educators. Every new generation at the chalkface likes to grumble that they have it worse… Read more

There are almost half a million foreign students in the UK — at boarding schools, universities and colleges. In independent schools alone, one in five new students are from abroad.… Read more

‘We will have to look at how we are doing things. Will we even be doing prep?’ So spoke Eve Jardine-Young, principal of Cheltenham Ladies’ College, this summer, galvanised to… Read more

My heart is pounding, my hands are shaking and there’s a leaden feeling in the pit of my stomach. My pupils are dilated and my digestive process has ground to… Read more

There are some things that will always be in competition. The Capulets and the Montagues; William Brown and Hubert Lane; the NHS and Bupa. They thrive on the tension, and… Read more

So much of the divide between state and private schools is a matter of mere perception — the perceptions of the teachers, the parents and the children. When, years ago,… Read more

Why on earth did you do it?’ must be one of the most frequently posed questions to teenagers. The bright, ambitious boy standing before me is perplexed: prompted by a… Read more

In the early morning light, the sleepy students of Hengshui Senior Secondary School are putting on their tracksuits in the dimly lit dormitories. It’s 5.30 a.m. By the time lessons… Read more

This September’s sixth-form students are the first to start courses involving the new A-levels. New A-levels are not ‘modular’. Each involves taking several exam papers, but they must be done… Read more

Even I was taken aback when, during the election campaign, David Cameron pledged to create 500 new free schools if the Conservatives won a majority. Was he being serious? Five… Read more

‘Yee-ha!’ is the triumphant shout from a riding school in south London, where Hamza, a teenage boy, has just completed a gymkhana exercise in a faultless rising trot. He takes… Read more

The idea of private schools as bastions of academic achievement has taken me some getting used to. When I left school 30 years ago, private schools were places of cold… Read more

NORFOLK -- A hundred thousand truckloads of steel flow in and out of this city every year, cruising down two-lane U.S. 275 at 65 mph -- sometimes faster, often slower.

Некоторые ученые связывают наплыв беженцев с изменениями климата. Климатологи считают, что гражданская война в Сирии вспыхнула из-за глобального потепления. Началу войны в 2011 году предшествовали четыре года сильной засухи, которая была самой опустошительной за всю известную историю региона Плодородного полумесяца, где примерно 12 000 лет назад родилось земледелие.