Nearly half of UK award nominees in last decade were privately educated
Labour analysis finds 40% of Britons nominated for main prizes at major cultural awards went to private school
Streaming: The Holdovers and the best films about teachers
From Robert Donat’s heart-breaking Mr Chips to the real-life Mr Bachmann, Judi Dench’s venomous schoolmarm to Paul Giamatti’s classics stickler in The Holdovers, teachers great and awful make for inspirational cinema
Banning phones in England’s schools will not address online safety, say campaigners
Call made for more ambitious legislation to protect children from harmful content on tech platforms
Ministers confirm plan to ban use of mobile phones in schools in England
Teaching unions say guidance includes practices already adopted and most schools already have policies in place
The software says my student cheated using AI. They say they’re innocent. Who do I believe?
In the desperate scramble to combat AI, there is a real danger of penalising students who have done nothing wrong, says Robert Topinka of Birkbeck, University of London
‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point
Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg
Ofsted inspectors ‘make up evidence’ about a school’s performance when IT fails
Inspector tells Observer investigation that top officials are aware that computer system crashes can wipe out data
More than half of UK undergraduates say they use AI to help with essays
Teachers also using the generative technology to aid with lesson planning, with hopes it could ease the burden of their workload
Tom Priestley obituary
Film editor who was nominated for an Oscar for Deliverance and sought to promote his father JB Priestley’s writing
James Dyson’s £6m donation to primary school approved despite concerns
Worries about impact on neighbouring schools of money for Malmesbury primary in Wiltshire, near Dyson’s campus
A groundbreaking study shows kids learn better on paper, not screens. Now what?
For ‘deeper reading’ among children aged 10-12, paper trumps screens. What does it mean when schools are going digital?
Art Talent Show review – witty interrogation of art students asks the big questions
Hopefuls for the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague face a probing from their professors in a documentary that looks for answers about art, institutions and ourselves
We should cherish handwriting: the scribbled, the scrawled, the stubbornly jotted
Our communications lose character when we give up putting pen to paper. It’s hard to imagine an Auden poem celebrating the arrival of the night email
Academic paper based on Uyghur genetic data retracted over ethical concerns
Exclusive: Study published in 2019 used blood and saliva samples from 203 Uyghur and Kazakh people living in Xinjiang capital
Misinformation expert says she was fired by Harvard under Meta pressure
Joan Donovan says funding was cut off for criticizing Meta when university was receiving $500m from Mark Zuckerberg’s charity