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Top London private school reverses plan to scrap GCSEs ft.trib.al/kPOTVY3

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Relatively few students engage in extra-curricular activities, according to the OECD Survey on Social and Emotional Skills. But engagement in these activities relates to higher levels of all social and emotional skills of 10 and 15-year-olds. Read more: oecd.org/en/publications/nur…

Superficial reading, disengagement, unquestioned AI use? ft.com/content/0b38ab3f-c12a… Reading scores plummet as ‘digital distraction’ harms students

🎓Young graduates face difficulty securing entry-level jobs as employers reduce hiring and use #AI to automate routine tasks. As reported by @AJack in @FT, business schools are responding by adapting their curricula to develop human skills employers value. bit.ly/4heUNCc

ft.com/content/537709b9-6ddb… Business schools face demand for higher, ‘human’ skills

International student enrolment is growing in European countries while it’s declining (from higher levels) in the UK, the US, and Canada

As a number of us has been saying, some of this is about policy shifts in anglophone receiving countries and economic variables. But some of it is also driven by deliberately expansive international education strategies in other European countries. And don’t forget the new destinations in Asia including Japan.

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as.ft.com/r/ac83cab5-cfe8-46… @LSEnews

How can Boots call these “healthy snacks”?!

Very sad to hear The World Tonight is being axed by the BBC. Newshour is a great programme but it isn’t a substitute. Radio 4 and its audience won’t have a domestic facing outlet after 1800. I hope audiences now understand the challenges facing the BBC.

I’ve written a piece for the I paper about the axing of The World Tonight. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category…

Tragic abandonment of the best of the BBC theguardian.com/media/2026/j…

Study: Mistral and other open-source AI models are among the weakest at filtering Russian disinformation; Mistral's top model ranks 47 out of 60 tested models (@ajack / Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

as.ft.com/r/e4abb5b3-bb93-47… Business school academics cancel US conference and switch to Europe @AOMConnect

What’s behind rising school absences and how to respond? as.ft.com/r/ec766acf-620f-47…

Waqas Ahmad checks an app on his phone, which uses satellite data to identify which areas of his field in Punjab need more attention. Kisan360, which features an AI-generated Urdu voice, was developed with researchers from China. w/@EleanorOlcott @AJack as.ft.com/r/4ee9b074-698e-49…